Patent ID: 11953896
Assignee: ARGO AI, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for controlling at least one driving operation of an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
obtaining sensor data associated with an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle;
providing the sensor data to a plurality of plugins, wherein each plugin of the plurality of plugins is configured to determine an existence of a different autonomy anomaly than the other plugins of the plurality of plugins;
independently determining, with each plugin of the plurality of plugins, based on the sensor data, whether to initiate a remote guidance session for the autonomous vehicle due to the existence of the autonomy anomaly associated with that plugin, wherein each plugin of the plurality of plugins includes a different model that is applied by that plugin to the sensor data to determine whether to request the remote guidance session;
receiving, from at least one plugin of the plurality of plugins, a request to initiate the remote guidance session for the autonomous vehicle;
in response to receiving the request to initiate the remote guidance session, automatically communicating with a computing device external to the autonomous vehicle to establish the remote guidance session with the computing device, wherein the remote guidance session provides, via the computing device, a human operator with information associated with the environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle and an ability to control at least one driving operation of the autonomous vehicle;
receiving, from the computing device external to the autonomous vehicle, during the remote guidance session, remote guidance data; and
controlling, based on the remote guidance data, during the remote guidance session, the at least one driving operation of the autonomous vehicle.