Orchestrator for interconnected autonomous vehicle fleet ecosystem

• Main Authors: Beinstein, Andrew Joseph, Chen, Yanqi Tyson, Weslosky, Emily Anna
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.09.2023
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; CALCULATING; CHECKING-DEVICES; COMPUTING; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS

An orchestrator for a fleet management system is disclosed herein. The orchestrator is configured to monitor completion of an assigned job by an autonomous vehicle in a fleet of autonomous vehicles. For example, the autonomous vehicle may have an assigned job of delivering cargo from one location to another location. The orchestrator can identify a plurality of tasks to be completed by a plurality of subsystems of the fleet management system in order to enable completion of the assigned job by the autonomous vehicle. For example, the subsystems may include a troubleshooting subsystem, a remote operations subsystem, a fleet operations subsystem, a fleet coordinator, and/or an interface. The orchestrator can coordinate completion of the tasks by the plurality of subsystems.