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

Claim 9:
10. A method for monitoring activity associated with a trip executed by an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:
receiving a trip plan from a supervisory device via a data communications network;
executing, via processing circuitry of the autonomous vehicle, the trip plan according to a pick-up location, a drop-off location, an identity of a passenger, and control parameters specified in the trip plan, the control parameters comprising a heat-related criterion;
receiving sensor data from a sensor network, the sensor network comprising a plurality of sensors disposed on the autonomous vehicle, the plurality of sensors comprising a thermal camera having a field of view of an interior cabin of the vehicle and configured to capture heat data of the passenger;
analyzing the sensor data in relation to a criteria profile to determine whether compliance boundaries of the criteria profile have been violated, the criteria profile being based on the trip plan and indicating compliance boundaries for the trip plan;
sending 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;
analyzing the heat data relative to the heat-related criterion as provided in the criteria profile; and
sending the alert in response to determining that the heat data violates the heat-related criterion;
wherein the heat data is indicative of a physical behavior of more than one passenger in the cabin of the vehicle.