	US 12,077,183 B2
	Method and system for remote assistance of an autonomous agent
Melinda Kothbauer, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Jeff Sterniak, Ann Arbor, MI (US); and Edwin B. Olson, Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Assigned to May Mobility, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Filed by May Mobility, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Filed on Oct. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/966,877.
Application 17/966,877 is a continuation of application No. 17/826,655, filed on May 27, 2022, granted, now 11,565,717.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/195,774, filed on Jun. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0032713 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)

CPC B60W 60/0011 (2020.02) [B60W 40/02 (2013.01); G05D 1/0011 (2013.01); B60W 2554/20 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)]

19 Claims

1. A method comprising:

with an onboard computing system of a vehicle, autonomously controlling the vehicle based on a set of electable policies; and

while autonomously controlling the vehicle based on the set of electable policies:

determining satisfaction of a probability threshold of an impasse occurrence along a target vehicle path, comprising calculating a probability of the impasse occurrence along the target vehicle path;

based on the satisfaction of the probability threshold, providing a set of outputs to a remote assistance platform; and

updating the set of electable policies to include an operator-approved policy determined with the remote assistance platform, wherein the operator-approved policy is received at the onboard computing system via a wireless connection with a latency greater than 50 milliseconds.