Patent Document ID: 8504505
Application ID: 12289666
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A control system for providing a control decision to an autonomous worksite including a plurality of machines, comprising: an operator interface; a communication interface configured to collect economic market information and autonomous worksite operations information; a storage device configured to store the collected information and a plurality of autonomous worksite optimization models each characterizing a mathematical relationship between a corresponding worksite optimization index and at least one worksite dispatch control variable, wherein the plurality of autonomous worksite optimization models includes a worksite profitability model for optimizing a worksite profitability index, a worksite efficiency model for optimizing a worksite efficiency index, and a worksite productivity optimization model for optimizing a worksite productivity index; and a processor coupled to the communication interface and the storage device, wherein the processor is configured to: allow, via the operator interface, an operator to select a worksite optimization index; identify a worksite dispatch control variable; using an autonomous worksite optimization model of the plurality of autonomous worksite optimization models that corresponds to the selected worksite optimization index, optimize the selected worksite productivity index based on the economic market information and on the autonomous worksite operations information, to determine an optimized value for the identified worksite dispatch control variable; compare the optimized value for the identified worksite dispatch control variable to an actual value for the identified worksite dispatch control variable determined from the received autonomous worksite operations information; make a dispatch control decision, based on the comparison; and provide the dispatch control decision to the autonomous worksite.