US 11,945,367 B2
Systems and methods for deploying emergency roadside signaling devices
Charles A. Price, San Diego, CA (US); Todd B. Skinner, San Diego, CA (US); Juexiao Ning, Tucson, AZ (US); Yishi Liu, Tucson, AZ (US); Qiwei Li, Tucson, AZ (US); Raymond Alan Thomas, Tucson, AZ (US); Alan Camyre, Tucson, AZ (US); Jim Giglio, Tucson, AZ (US); and Robert Patrick Brown, Tucson, AZ (US)
Assigned to TuSimple, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by TuSimple, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/304,539.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/042,979, filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0001798 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B60Q 7/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); E01F 9/619 (2016.01); E01F 9/627 (2016.01); E01F 9/70 (2016.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G09F 13/16 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 7/00 (2013.01) [B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); E01F 9/619 (2016.02); E01F 9/629 (2016.02); E01F 9/70 (2016.02); G07C 5/0816 (2013.01); G09F 13/16 (2013.01); B60W 2556/60 (2020.02); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An emergency roadside signaling system of an autonomous vehicle, the system comprising:
a housing;
an object placing device to be stored in the housing; and
a control system for the object placing device, the control system including:
a communication system to communicate with an in-vehicle control system of the autonomous vehicle, a processor, and
a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to:
determine that communication between the control system for the object placing device and the in-vehicle control system of the autonomous vehicle using the communication system has been inhibited or lost; and
in response to determining that the communication between the control system for the object placing device and the in-vehicle control system of the autonomous vehicle has been inhibited or lost, provide instructions to the object placing device to place a plurality of signaling devices in accordance with predetermined criteria.