Uber Technologies, Inc.

Uatc, LLC

Patrick Greaney Willett

Eli Schleifer

Matthew James Way

Sean Shanshi Chen

Steve Ayers

Chee Yu

Samann Ghorbanian-Matloob

Shelley Bower

Arvind Srinivasan

Disclosed are autonomous vehicles that may autonomously navigate at least a portion of a route defined by a service request allocator. The autonomous vehicle may, at a certain portion of the route, request remote assistance. In response to the request, an operator may provide input to a console that indicates control positions for one or more vehicle controls such as steering position, brake position, and/or accelerator position. A command is sent to the autonomous vehicle indicating how the vehicle should proceed along the route. When the vehicle reaches a location where remote assistance is no longer required, the autonomous vehicle is released from manual control and may then continue executing the route under autonomous control.

Operator assistance for autonomous vehicles

Systems and methods for facilitating communication with autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system (e.g., of a vehicle) can generate a first communication associated with an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can provide the first communication to an application programming interface gateway that is remote from the autonomous vehicle. Another computing system can obtain, via an application programming interface gateway, the first communication associated with the autonomous vehicle. The other computing system can determine a first frontend interface of the application programming interface gateway based at least in part on the first communication associated with the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can provide, via the first frontend interface, the first communication associated with the autonomous vehicle to a first system client associated with the first frontend interface.

Autonomous vehicle application programming interface and communications systems and methods

The present disclosure is directed to a system for generating customized command toolboxes for remote operators in a service system that includes autonomous vehicles. The system receives a request for remote assistance from an autonomous vehicle. The system determines, from a local storage location, vehicle data associated with the autonomous vehicle. The system selects a subset of remote assistance actions from a predetermined set of remote assistance actions. The system displays, in a remote assistance user interface, one or more user interface elements indicative of the subset of remote assistance actions. The system determines one or more remote assistance actions from the subset of remote assistance actions based at least in part on a user input associated with the one or more user interface elements. The system transmits one or more control signals associated with the one or more remote assistance actions.

Command toolbox for autonomous vehicles

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Patrick Greaney Willett