Patent ID: 11947353
Assignee: WAYMO LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium on which computer readable instructions of a program are stored, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method or managing a transportation system including a plurality of autonomous vehicles, the method comprising:
continuously receiving updates regarding statuses of the plurality of autonomous vehicles, the continuously received updates including one or more measurements published from one or more instruments of the plurality of autonomous vehicles;
determining, based on the continuously received updates, non-passenger task requests;
for each respective one of the non-passenger task requests:
determining, based on the continuously received updates, a priority level indicating when a non-passenger task of the respective one of the non-passenger task requests should be executed by one or more computing devices of a respective autonomous vehicle of the plurality of autonomous vehicles in relation to any existing tasks in a queue of the respective autonomous vehicle of the plurality of autonomous vehicles, the non-passenger task being unrelated to transporting a passenger in the respective autonomous vehicle of the plurality of autonomous vehicles; and
determining a destination location based on a location associated with a preceding task in the queue of the respective autonomous vehicle of the plurality of autonomous vehicles;

generating dispatch commands, each respective one of the dispatch commands including at least one of the non-passenger task requests and the priority level for the at least one of the non-passenger task requests, and the destination location for the at least one of the non-passenger task requests; and
sending each respective one of the dispatch commands to the respective autonomous vehicle of the plurality of autonomous vehicles.