Patent ID: 9690290
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: B60W,G05D,G08G

Claim:
1. A method of transferring data from an autonomous vehicle to a remote operation computing system while the autonomous vehicle is operating in a remote operational mode, the method comprising: sensing a driving environment of the autonomous vehicle using a sensor system to acquire driving environment data, the sensor system including plurality of different types of sensors; selecting a subset of the plurality of different types of sensors based on at least one of a driving environment complexity and a communication channel availability between the autonomous vehicle and the remote operation computing system, the subset of the plurality of different types of sensors including less than all of the different types of sensors; determining a sample rate based on at least one of the driving environment complexity and the communication channel availability between the autonomous vehicle and the remote operation computing system; and sending driving environment data acquired by the selected subset of the plurality of different types of sensors to the remote operation computing system at the determined sample rate.