Patent ID: 11915172
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 11:
12. A method, comprising:
determining, for a geofenced area, data comprising any one or more of traffic flow, utilization of a parking location, a state of a delivery robot, an estimated time of arrival of the delivery robot to complete a delivery mission, and smart parking asset status;
building a visualization interface from the data of the geo fenced area using a machine learning engine that creates a curbside and traffic simulation model;
dispatching a delivery vehicle to a delivery location in the geofenced area based on the curbside and traffic simulation model, the delivery vehicle parking at a first parking location of the delivery location at an initial point in time and deploying the delivery robot to deliver a package, the delivery location being defined by the geofenced area;
instructing the delivery vehicle to leave the first parking location, thereby allowing another vehicle to occupy the first parking location after the delivery vehicle leaves the first parking location and while the delivery robot is delivering a package; and
dispatching the delivery vehicle or another delivery vehicle to a second parking location in the geofenced area, the second parking location being different than the first parking location, the delivery vehicle or another delivery vehicle parking at the second parking location at a later point in time based on the estimated time of arrival of the delivery robot after the delivery mission, in order to retrieve the delivery robot at the second parking location.