Patent ID: 11912285
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  A  G | IPC A  B  G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a supervisory device configured to receive, via a user interface, a trip plan, the trip plan comprising:
a pick-up location and a drop-off location for a passenger for the trip plan;
an identity of the passenger; and
control parameters for the trip plan, the control parameters comprising a heat-related criterion; and

a vehicle comprising processing circuitry and a sensor network, the vehicle being an autonomous vehicle;
wherein the sensor network comprises a plurality of sensors configured to capture sensor data relating to the vehicle and activities within the vehicle, the plurality of sensors comprising a camera and a location sensor, the camera comprising a thermal camera, wherein the camera has a field of view of an interior cabin of the vehicle and is configured to capture heat data of the passenger;
wherein the processing circuitry is in communication with a data communication network;
wherein a criteria profile is generated by the supervisory device, the processing circuitry of the vehicle, or a network cloud entity, based on the trip plan, the criteria profile indicating compliance boundaries for the trip plan;
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to implement a chief stew module that configures the processing circuitry to:
receive the trip plan via the data communications network;
execute the trip plan according to the pick-up location, the drop-off location, the identity of the passenger, and the control parameters;
receive sensor data from the sensor network;
analyze the sensor data in relation to the criteria profile to determine whether compliance boundaries of the criteria profile have been violated;
send an alert to the supervisory device or a third party device in response to determining that the sensor data indicates that a violation of a compliance boundary of the criteria profile has occurred;
analyze the heat data relative to the heat-related criterion as provided in the criteria profile;
send the alert in response to determining the heat data violated the heat-related criterion; and
wherein the heat data is indicative of a physical behavior of more than one passenger in the interior cabin of the vehicle.