Patent ID: 11900821
Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. An autonomous vehicle fleet control method, comprising:
controlling, by a fleet controller, a vehicle of a fleet of autonomous vehicles according to a flight path associated with a mission for the vehicle, the controlling the vehicle causing the vehicle to execute the mission according to mission performance requirements;
monitoring, by the fleet controller, operation of the vehicle during performance of the mission;
monitoring, by the fleet controller, mission parameters associated with the mission, wherein the monitoring the mission parameters comprises monitoring at least operation of the vehicle during performance of the mission and mission performance requirements;
receiving mission impact data comprising at least one of an event message or updated unmanned aircraft system (UAS) traffic management (UTM) data received during performance of the mission;
determining, according to the mission parameter and the mission impact data, whether vehicle operation adjustment is needed;
generating, in response to determining that the vehicle operation adjustment is needed, adjusted vehicle commands; and
controlling the vehicle according to the adjusted vehicle commands by sending, through a control arbitrator, the adjusted vehicle commands associated with the flight path to the vehicle, the controlling the vehicle, wherein the control arbitrator forwards the adjusted vehicle commands to the vehicle in response to the control arbitrator determining that the vehicle is being controlled by a single source of commands.