US 12,497,067 B2
Autonomous parking and summoning operations in locations without cellular communication coverage
Rajashekar Reddy Billapati, Noblesville, IN (US); Kanishka Tyagi, Thousand Oaks, CA (US); and Sruthi Kilari, Noblesville, IN (US)
Assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/331,141.
Prior Publication US 2024/0409115 A1, Dec. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC B60W 60/001 (2020.02) [B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 2530/00 (2013.01); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, from a driver input to a host vehicle, a request to autonomously park the host vehicle in a parking environment;
determining that parking space information was obtained, the parking space information indicating an available space in the parking environment;
in response to determining that the parking space information was obtained, autonomously operating the host vehicle in the parking environment to navigate to the available space;
autonomously parking the host vehicle in the available space;
determining that a cellular connection is not available to a communication system of the host vehicle;
in response to determining that the cellular connection is not available to the communication system of the host vehicle, communicating, via a proxy vehicle with the cellular connection, a location of the host vehicle to the driver;
after communicating the location of the host vehicle to the driver, obtaining, via the proxy vehicle or another proxy vehicle, a summons request from the driver to navigate the host vehicle from the available space to a pickup area in or near the parking environment;
in response to obtaining the summons request, autonomously operating the host vehicle from the available space to the pickup area;
in response to obtaining the summons request and before autonomously operating the host vehicle from the available space to the pickup area, determining that the host vehicle is in a low-power battery condition; and
in response to determining that the host vehicle is in the low-power battery condition, communicating, via the proxy vehicle or the other proxy vehicle, the location to the driver to decline or reject the summons request.