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

Claim 0:
1. An autonomous vehicle fleet control method, comprising:
obtaining, by a fleet controller a mission for a vehicle of a fleet of autonomous vehicles;
identifying a flight path associated with the mission;
verifying a usability of the flight path with an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) traffic management (UTM);
modifying the flight path according to data from the UTM in response to the UTM indicating that the usability of the flight path is not verified; and
controlling the vehicle according to the flight path by sending, through a control arbitrator, vehicle commands associated with the flight path to the vehicle, the controlling the vehicle causing the vehicle to execute the mission, wherein the control arbitrator forwards the vehicle commands to the vehicle in response to the control arbitrator determining that the vehicle is being controlled by a single source of commands.