Patent ID: 11878795
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for workforce management, comprising:
receiving at least one service request associated with a region from one or more requesting devices, the region including a plurality of task areas, each of the plurality of task areas including at least one home, at least one of the plurality of task areas including a plurality of sub-task areas and a plurality of homes with each of the plurality of homes being included in a respective one of the plurality of sub-task areas, the region also including a plurality of base station pods, each of the base station pods housing an unmanned aerial machine and one or more autonomous machines;
controlling movement of the unmanned aerial machine from at least one of the base station pods to each of the plurality of task areas from which at least one service request is received, the unmanned aerial machine acquiring evaluation data about the plurality of task areas from which at least one service request is received;
determining a number of tasks to be performed in each of the plurality of task areas from which at least one service request is received based on the at least one service request, the task area, and the evaluation data; and
for each of the plurality of task areas from which at least one service request is received:
selecting one or more autonomous machines and one or more task tools from one or more base station pods to perform the number of tasks based on at least the number of tasks to be performed and a task area location of relative to a location of the base station pods;
controlling the selected one or more autonomous machines and task tools from the one or more base station pods to perform each of the number of tasks; and
electronically analyzing final evaluation data that is associated with a current state of the task area with the evaluation data to determine if each task of the number of tasks has been completed and controlling one or more of the task tools to switch to another task of the number of tasks after completion of the task.