INTEGRATED AUTONOMOUS FLEET MANAGEMENT USING SELF-AWARE VEHICLES
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1. An apparatus for managing a fleet of vehicles, the apparatus comprising:
- on each of the vehicles, a plurality of vehicle subsystems, each subsystem capable of monitoring conditions and assessing capabilities of the subsystem; and
for each vehicle, a vehicle management system having one or more processors and memory configured to;
monitor conditions and assess capabilities of the vehicle based on subsystem condition and capability information provided by the subsystems; and
based on the monitored vehicle conditions and assessed vehicle capabilities, initiate performance of one or more fleet management functions.
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Abstract
An apparatus for managing a fleet of vehicles. On each of the vehicles are a plurality of vehicle subsystems, each subsystem capable of monitoring conditions and assessing capabilities of the subsystem. For each vehicle, a vehicle management system has one or more processors and memory configured to: monitor conditions and assess capabilities of the vehicle based on subsystem condition and capability information provided by the subsystems, and based on the monitored vehicle conditions and assessed vehicle capabilities, initiate performance of one or more fleet management functions.
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1. An apparatus for managing a fleet of vehicles, the apparatus comprising:
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on each of the vehicles, a plurality of vehicle subsystems, each subsystem capable of monitoring conditions and assessing capabilities of the subsystem; and for each vehicle, a vehicle management system having one or more processors and memory configured to; monitor conditions and assess capabilities of the vehicle based on subsystem condition and capability information provided by the subsystems; and based on the monitored vehicle conditions and assessed vehicle capabilities, initiate performance of one or more fleet management functions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An automated method of managing a fleet of vehicles, comprising:
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in each vehicle, each of a plurality of subsystems of the vehicle monitoring its subsystem condition and assessing its subsystem capabilities based on the monitored subsystem condition; a vehicle management system for each vehicle monitoring conditions of the vehicle based on condition information from the subsystems and assessing capabilities of the vehicle based on the subsystem conditions and capabilities; and based on the vehicle condition and capabilities, the vehicle management system for a given one or more of the vehicles performing one or more fleet management functions cooperatively with a fleet management system. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A self-aware vehicle comprising:
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a plurality of vehicle subsystems, each subsystem capable of monitoring conditions and assessing capabilities of the subsystem; and a vehicle management system having one or more processors and memory configured to; monitor conditions and assess capabilities of the vehicle based on subsystem condition and capability information provided by the subsystems; and based on the monitored vehicle conditions and assessed vehicle capabilities, initiate performance of one or more fleet management functions. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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