公开(公告)号：US20210192962A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US16720543

申请日：2019-12-19

Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.

Inventor： Grant Mark Bristow ,  Matthew David Holvey ,  Naveed Ahmed Siddiqui

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G07C5/02

Abstract: An method for controlling an autonomous vehicle fleet, including obtaining, by a fleet controller, from a master schedule, a mission for a vehicle of a fleet of autonomous vehicles, where the mission is associated with a mission entry of the master schedule, generating vehicle commands according to mission parameters associated with the mission, maintaining a persistent connection with the vehicle, sending the vehicle commands to the vehicle using the connection, the vehicle commands causing the vehicle to execute the mission under control of the fleet controller, and monitoring operation of the vehicle during performance of the mission.

公开(公告)号：US20210192405A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US16721132

申请日：2019-12-19

Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.

Inventor： Grant Mark Bristow ,  Matthew David Holvey ,  Naveed Ahmed Siddiqui

IPC: G06Q10/06 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: In an embodiment, a fleet scheduler includes a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for: gathering data representing real-world conditions; generating and maintaining predictive models based on the gathered data; and generating a master schedule for a plurality of vehicles based on the gathered data and the predictive models.