Chris A Lyons

US Patent:

20190220036, Jul 18, 2019

Filed:

Feb 19, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/898960

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Gary Wu Yang - San Francisco CA, US
Nuri Kim - San Francisco CA, US
Lili Kan - Cupertino CA, US
Varun Rau - San Francisco CA, US
Xiaoman Dong - Burlingame CA, US
Julie Marie Derence - Pittsburgh PA, US
Christopher John Peplin - Pittsburgh PA, US
Daniel Joseph Tascione - Monroeville PA, US
Steve Ayers - Mars PA, US
Mark Reeder - Menlo Park CA, US
Robert Eperjesi - San Francisco CA, US
Richard Tom - San Francisco CA, US
Steven Hanby Williams - Sunnyvale CA, US
Venkata Sathya Praveen Gorthy - Pleasanton CA, US
Sunil Kumar Garg - San Francisco CA, US
Chris Lyons - San Francisco CA, US
Yi Shi - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G05D 1/02
G07C 5/00
G07C 5/08
G08G 1/00
G06Q 50/30

Abstract:

Systems and methods for managing a fleet of vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data representing vehicle state information associated with one or more vehicles among a fleet of vehicles at one or more times. The method includes predicting a future vehicle state associated with the one or more vehicles at one or more future times. The method includes scheduling a vehicle assignment in a predetermined set of vehicle assignments for a selected vehicle among the one or more vehicles before a first future time among the one or more future times. The method includes transmitting a command signal to a computing system associated with the selected vehicle based at least in part on the scheduled vehicle assignment.