Method for directing, scheduling, and facilitating maintenance requirements for autonomous vehicle
A method for performing automatic maintenance of an autonomous vehicle is disclosed. The method includes receiving a maintenance request from the autonomous vehicle, wherein the maintenance request includes diagnostic data. Further, the method includes analyzing the diagnostic data to identify at least one recommended car service for the autonomous vehicle and comparing a vehicle location against a plurality of facility locations to identify a closest facility from a plurality of maintenance facilities, wherein the plurality of facility locations is associated with the locations of the plurality of maintenance facilities. Further, the method includes receiving a work schedule of the closest facility and generating an appointment reservation with the closest facility in the one or more facility locations based on the received one or more work schedules. Moreover, the method includes sending the appointment reservation to the autonomous vehicle.
1 . A method for autonomous maintenance of an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising: receiving, autonomously, from an onboard computing device of the autonomous vehicle, onboard diagnostic data of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the autonomous vehicle has a mechanical failure, or the mechanical failure is imminent; receiving, by the system, navigation data from the autonomous vehicle, the navigation data comprises GPS locations of a path traveled by the autonomous vehicle and times the autonomous vehicle was at these GPS locations; upon receiving the navigation data, determining, by the system, environmental conditions at the GPS locations during the associated times, the environmental conditions comprising road conditions at the GPS locations; analyzing, by the system, the environmental conditions to obtain one or more adverse events the autonomous vehicle was subjected to; processing, by the system, the one or more adverse events to identify at least one maintenance service for the autonomous vehicle; determining, autonomously, a current location of the autonomous vehicle; receiving, autonomously, the autonomous vehicle into a maintenance facility, the maintenance facility comprises a plurality of service stations; servicing the autonomous vehicle at one or more service stations of the plurality of service stations; receiving, autonomously, one or more service records from each of the one or more service stations;
wherein, the autonomous vehicle is controlled to move to a selected service station, the selected service station comprising at least one of an air or vacuum service station, a detail or vacuum service station, a charging pass-through station, or a convenience pass-through station, and wherein, upon completion of service, the autonomous vehicle is dispatched to repeat the inspection and service process, and wherein inspection data is transmitted to a road-data upload process and stored in a cloud server
and incorporating, autonomously, the one or more service records into a vehicle data file of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the vehicle data file is stored in a blockchain database.
2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining, autonomously, a cost of services from the one or more service records.
3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises: making an autonomous payment to the maintenance facility based on the cost of services.
4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining an occupancy of the autonomous vehicle; and determining, autonomously based on the occupancy, a replacement vehicle and a response vehicle closest to the autonomous vehicle.
5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the maintenance facility is autonomously selected from a plurality of maintenance facilities based on a closest distance from the autonomous vehicle.
6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more service records have a QR code, wherein the method further comprises: interpreting a nature of the one or more service records based on the QR code.
7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises: converting a service record of the one or more service records using optical character recognition technology.
8 . A system for autonomous maintenance of an autonomous vehicle, the system configured to implement a method comprising: receiving, autonomously, from an onboard computing device of the autonomous vehicle, onboard diagnostic data of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the autonomous vehicle has a mechanical failure, or the mechanical failure is imminent; determining, autonomously, a current location of the autonomous vehicle; receiving, autonomously, the autonomous vehicle into a maintenance facility, the maintenance facility comprises a plurality of service stations; receiving, autonomously, one or more service records from one or more service stations of the plurality of service station, wherein the autonomous vehicle is serviced at the one or more service stations;
wherein, the autonomous vehicle is controlled to move to a selected service station, the selected service station comprising at least one of an air or vacuum service station, a detail or vacuum service station, a charging pass-through station, or a convenience pass-through station, and wherein, upon completion of service, the autonomous vehicle is dispatched to repeat the inspection and service process, and wherein inspection data is transmitted to a road-data upload process and stored in a cloud server; and
incorporating, autonomously, the one or more service records into a vehicle data file of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the vehicle data file is stored in a blockchain database, wherein maintenance records are updated in a blockchain ledger, providing for centralized clearing of payments to a plurality of vendors, wherein cost and payments related details are stored in the system which is centralized and accessible to the plurality of vendors for automated management.