Remote Vehicle Disablement for Autonomous Emergency Control
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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 impairments.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for remotely controlling autonomous vehicles, including disabling vehicles, assisting passengers with disabilities, detecting and removing unauthorized individuals, optimizing delivery routes, and integrating extended reality environments, using processors and transceivers to receive and analyze communications, authenticate instructions, and adjust vehicle components accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the vehicle operates in autonomous mode without a human operator present, then productivity and efficiency are improved, but the ability to respond to emergencies and obtain registration information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
A remote entity serves as an intermediary that can immediately respond to emergency situations, provide registration information to law enforcement, and take control of the vehicle when necessary, compensating for the absence of a human operator while maintaining autonomous operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical presence of a human operator with an electronic communication system that transmits registration information and enables remote control commands, allowing emergency response without requiring a physical human operator in the vehicle.
2Reliability
If remote disablement capability is added to the vehicle system, then safety control is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication system is designed to perform multiple functions: transmitting registration information to law enforcement, receiving remote disablement commands, and providing operational status updates. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated systems for each function, thereby limiting the increase in overall device complexity.
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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.