Autonomous Vehicle Remote Control for Passenger and Delivery Handling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles face challenges in ensuring safe operation, particularly in unusual environmental conditions, managing unauthorized passengers, delivering loads efficiently, and providing accessibility for individuals with disabilities, due to limitations in remote control mechanisms and sensor functionality.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method for remotely controlling autonomous vehicles, including disabling vehicles, assisting passengers with disabilities, detecting and removing unauthorized individuals, and optimizing delivery routes through communication with infrastructure and other vehicles, using processors and transceivers to receive and analyze instructions for vehicle operation, authentication, and adjusting vehicle components accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If remote control capability is added to the autonomous vehicle, then ease of operation is improved for remote monitoring and control, but device complexity increases due to additional communication systems

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveremote control capabilityVSAvoidcommunication system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The communication system is designed to perform multiple functions including transmitting sensor data, receiving control commands, and enabling remote monitoring, reducing the need for separate dedicated systems for each function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11899449B1Autonomous vehicle extended reality environments
Publication Date: 2024.02.13 STATE FARM MUTAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
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AI summary

Autonomous vehicle methods and systems are described herein for communicating with an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to remotely control operation of the vehicle, to detect and remove unauthorized passengers, to deliver loads, to receive registration information for the vehicle, to provide accessibility information to the vehicle, and/or to receive sensor or other environmental data to integrate with an electronic game or other extended reality experience.