Uber Technologies, Inc.
Autonomous Clustering for Light Electric Vehicles

Abstract:

Systems and methods for clustering autonomous light electric vehicles are provided. A method can include obtaining, by a computing system, data indicative of a respective location for each of a plurality of autonomous light electric vehicles; determining, by the computing system, at least a subset of the plurality of autonomous light electric vehicles to cluster within a geographic area based at least in part on the data indicative of the respective location for each of the plurality of autonomous light electric vehicles; determining, by the computing system, a point autonomous light electric vehicle and one or more follower autonomous light electric vehicles based at least in part on one or more properties of the subset of the autonomous light electric vehicles; and controlling, by the computing system, each of the follower autonomous light electric vehicles to within a threshold distance of the point autonomous light electric vehicle.