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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of Nasa, Washington, DC (US);
Liam Pedersen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maarten Sierhuis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hans Utz, Campbell, CA (US);
Mauro Della Penna, San Francisco, CA (US);
Terrence Fong, Moffett Field, CA (US);
Mark Allan, Campbell, CA (US);
Maria Bualat, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Schafer, Kentfield, CA (US);
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for providing remote support and negotiating problem situations of autonomous operation of vehicles based on signal states and vehicle information are described. The disclosed technology receives state data for the vehicles by an apparatus such as a remote vehicle support apparatus. The state data indicates a respective current state for the vehicles. The vehicles are each assigned to respective remote vehicle support queues based on the respective state data. An indication that one of the vehicles is requesting remote support is received by the remote vehicle support apparatus. In response to a determination that a change in the state data indicates that autonomous operation of the one of the vehicles is operating outside of defined parameter values, the remote support is provided to the one of the vehicles through a communications link by transmitting instruction data to modify the autonomous operation of the one of the vehicles.