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Method and system for controlling vehicles and drones

  • US 9,978,108 B2
  • Filed: 09/26/2017
  • Issued: 05/22/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for controlling vehicles and drones, the system comprising a processing circuit configured to:

  • control the vehicles by directing the vehicles to drop off passengers at multiple locations and by calculating routes for the vehicles to respectively pick up the passengers from the multiple locations based on predicted pick-up times, numbers of passengers and vehicle capacities; and

    control the drones by assigning one or more of the drones to passengers at each location, each drone being controllable to broadcast a current location of the passengers in the location and a corresponding one of the predicted pick-up times and to delay the passengers in the location based on one of the vehicles assigned as a pick-up vehicle for the passengers in the location being delayed.

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