237results about "Platooning" patented technology

The invention discloses a formation riding danger information sharing method and system for intelligent riding helmets, and relates to the technical field of information sharing, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the deep fusion of the adjacent beacons of all intelligent helmets, the state information of a vehicle, and the multi-source heterogeneous data of an external sensor, vehicle-road cooperation and the like; and constructing and dynamically maintaining a topological graph reflecting the space-time relationship among the formation members in real time. On the basis, intelligent source end propagation strategy decision is carried out on perceived semantic danger information, and topology-based directional relay and propagation are carried out. And finally, the decided propagable information is combined with the state of the rider, so that a highly personalized early warning instruction is generated. In this way, undifferentiated global information broadcast can be effectively converted into accurate risk announcement based on individual context, and the efficiency of dangerous information sharing in formation riding and the cooperative safety capability of the whole system are remarkably improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of call center control, and discloses an unmanned vehicle formation control and obstacle avoidance reconstruction system based on complex road conditions. The system call data acquisition module is used for acquiring multi-source interaction data in real time; the dynamic feature extraction module is used for performing semantic intention hierarchical analysis on the voice stream text conversion data, performing event fragment segmentation on the user behavior time sequence data, and generating an operation track feature vector; the scene clustering engine module is used for performing space-time alignment on the semantic intention hierarchical analysis result and the event fragment segmentation result to generate a multi-dimensional scene clustering tag; the strategy matching core module is used for retrieving an interaction strategy set matched with the current scene from a distributed strategy library according to the multi-dimensional scene clustering label and generating a dynamic control instruction sequence; and the instruction distribution execution module is used for distributing the dynamic control instruction sequences to corresponding seat terminals and voice routing equipment after sorting the dynamic control instruction sequences according to priorities.

An apparatus of a first vehicle includes a processor configured to detect a fault associated with a second vehicle. The processor is configured to obtain sensor data associated with a sensing region of the second vehicle. The processor is configured to provide an output, based on the sensor data, for controlling the second vehicle to traverse a vehicle transportation network

The disclosure relates to a motor vehicle, to a driver assistance system, and to a method for operating the driver assistance system. A relevant slipstream region of a further motor vehicle driving in a predetermined surrounding region of the motor vehicle is detected. A current slipstream efficiency is ascertained based on whether the motor vehicle is driving in the slipstream region and, if so, based on which of the slipstream partial regions of the slipstream region the motor vehicle is driving in. An overall aerodynamic efficiency is ascertained based on a current driving speed of the motor vehicle and the current slipstream efficiency. An individual overall aerodynamic efficiency potential that characterizes an overall aerodynamic efficiency that will be achieved by the motor vehicle when same drives in the slipstream region of the further motor vehicle is assigned to the further motor vehicle based on the driving speed and slipstream region.

The invention discloses a three-stage cooperative lane changing method for a vehicle queue in a ramp diversion area in an intelligent network connection environment, and the method comprises the steps: firstly, determining a safety gap of a target lane based on a minimum safety distance and a maximum deceleration, and selecting a vehicle which can change the lane to the safety gap from a CAV queue for preferential lane changing; secondly, establishing a longitudinal trajectory planning model based on self-adaptive model predictive control, performing longitudinal distance adjustment on a lane-changed vehicle by using the model, and reversely calculating an initial position required by the vehicle to smoothly drive into a ramp based on a quintic polynomial trajectory planning method; embedding into adaptive model predictive control as a ramp tail end constraint to form a new safety gap of the target lane; and finally, the vehicles which do not change lanes are controlled to sequentially change lanes to the corresponding safety gaps, and lane changing of the CAV queue is achieved. According to the method, the CAV queue can efficiently and orderly drive into the exit ramp, the vehicle speed fluctuation of a shunting area can be reduced, and the overall passing efficiency of a road section is improved.

A system receives vehicle metric data from a gateway device connected to a vehicle. The vehicle gateway device gathers data related to operation of the vehicle and / or location data. The system receives data from multiple vehicles in a fleet. The vehicle gateway device gathers vehicle metric data at a high frequency. Instead of transmitting a large amount of vehicle metric data at a fine level of granularity, the vehicle gateway device aggregates and buckets the vehicle metric data over a period of time (such as, every five minutes). The system uses the bucketed data for fleet management analysis.

A system for enhancing autonomous ride-sharing network liquidity through adaptive vehicle configuration is disclosed. The system comprises a fleet of vehicles with dynamically activatable features, a central control system for monitoring market demand and vehicle availability, and modules for feature activation and dynamic configuration and deployment. This invention allows a single vehicle type to serve multiple market segments by dynamically adjusting its feature configuration and tier deployment based on real-time demand, thereby optimizing fleet utilization and enhancing service flexibility.

The invention provides a method for determining a motorcade driving strategy and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of path planning, and the method comprises the steps: firstly, determining a comprehensive operation index of a motorcade based on cooperation data and a basic operation index of the motorcade; secondly, the collaborative data and interaction data and prior data of the motorcade are fused to obtain fused data, the interaction data are data of the current running state of the vehicle and the road condition of the environment where the vehicle is located, and the prior data are used for representing historical driving data matched with the current scene; and finally, based on the fusion data, the comprehensive operation index and the path planning data of the motorcade, determining a target driving strategy of the motorcade, the path planning data being a constraint for supporting path planning. The technical problem that in the prior art, cooperative requirements of distance control, path conflict avoidance and the like of the motorcade in an off-road environment are not considered, so that the overall passing efficiency and safety of the motorcade are insufficient is solved.

The invention provides a motorcade active-disturbance-rejection control method and system with a variable time interval strategy. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring state information of each vehicle in a vehicle queue system; the leader vehicle and the following vehicle carry out information transmission; under the condition of considering external disturbance, a vehicle dynamics model referring to the Newton second law is established, and a variable time interval strategy is constructed; compensating unmodeled dynamic and external disturbances in the vehicle dynamics model by using a time-varying gain expansion state observer in an active disturbance rejection control technology, and constructing a virtual controller and an actual controller based on a backstepping method; and according to the constructed virtual controller and the actual controller, realizing position and speed synchronization of the following vehicle and the leading vehicle in the queue under the condition of considering unmodeled dynamics and external disturbance. According to the method, the non-smooth problem at the saturation threshold is solved, the fluctuation influence can be effectively reduced, the safety is guaranteed, and the passing efficiency is improved; and the problem of gain attenuation is solved while the high gain characteristic is reserved.

Systems and methods are disclosed for coordinating multiple autonomous vehicles for group transportation, including a server initializing a motorcade session based on a motorcade formation request and starting a motorcade session, wherein the motorcade session includes coordination of integrated functionality across the autonomous vehicles within the motorcade via communication with a server or via vehicle-to-vehicle communication channels.

The invention relates to a method and to a device for the mutual monitoring and / or control of a multiplicity of autonomous technical systems which are at least partially interconnected to one another via a communication network (NW) At least one of the autonomous technical systems is embodied as a monitoring autonomous technical system (ASobs1) and monitors the operating behaviour of other autonomous technical systems. On the basis of a specified first rule, the monitoring autonomous technical system (ASobs1) detects an operating behaviour, which is contrary to the rule, of a first autonomous technical system (AS1) and generates a status message about the operating behaviour which is contrary to the rule therefrom. The status message is transmitted by the monitoring autonomous technical system (ASobs1) to some of the other autonomous technical systems, is received thereby and evaluated jointly. Depending on the evaluation, a control rule is derived for the first autonomous technical system (AS1) and communicated to a control module (CTLM) which is assigned to the first autonomous technical system (AS1). The operating behaviour of the first autonomous technical system (AS1) is controlled on the basis of the control rule.

A method for automated vehicle driving control in a platoon includes obtaining first operational parameters of a first vehicle, including at least a first measured braking performance of the first vehicle, obtaining second operational parameters of a second vehicle, including at least a first measured braking performance of the second vehicle, determining a platoon sequence according to the operational parameters by assigning whichever of the first vehicle and the second vehicle that has a lesser measured braking performance as a lead vehicle in the platoon sequence, and assigning the other of the first vehicle and the second vehicle as a follower vehicle in the platoon sequence, initiating a platoon sequence driving route, and controlling automated driving of the follower vehicle according to tracking of the lead vehicle, wherein the automated driving includes automated steering control, automated acceleration and automated braking based on tracked movement of the lead vehicle.

A description is given of a control device (100) for the longitudinal and / or transverse guidance of a vehicle (102), in particular a utility vehicle, in relation to at least one further vehicle (104) in a vehicle group (106). The control device (100) comprises a determination unit (108) for determining a vehicle air resistance, FL, and a further vehicle air resistance, wFL. The control device (100) furthermore comprises a control unit (110) for controlling a control variable in the vehicle group (106). The control device (100) furthermore comprises a storage unit (112) for storing the determined FL and wFL in association with the controlled control variable in a characteristic diagram. The control unit (110) varies the control variable. A computing unit (114) of the control device (100) calculates an optimizing control variable. The control unit (110) furthermore controls the control variable in accordance with the optimized control variable.

A vehicle system includes processing circuits configured to monitor locations of a plurality of vehicles relative to an area, control operation of a first vehicle of a first group of vehicles in a first group mode of operation when the location indicates that the first vehicle is located in the area, and control operation of a second vehicle of a second group of vehicles in a second group mode of operation when the location indicates that the second vehicle is located in the area. The first group mode of operation is different than the second group mode of operation such that operation of a respective vehicle of the plurality of vehicles is controlled based on whether the respective vehicle is associated with the first group of vehicles or the second group of vehicles and a location of the respective vehicle relative to the area.

The invention relates to a method for teleoperated control of a platooning-based moving vehicle convoy (2) with several vehicles, comprising the steps: - Providing at least one control command for the vehicle convoy (2) by a teleoperation station (3) with a teleoperator (6); - Transmitting the control command to a lead vehicle (4) of the vehicle column (2); - remote control of the command vehicle (4) based on the transmitted control command; - Acquiring environmental information concerning the surroundings of the vehicle convoy (2); - Determining an execution situation of the control command for a following vehicle (5) of the vehicle convoy (2) that differs from the lead vehicle (4) depending on the acquired environmental information; and - Controlling the following vehicle (5) with the control command depending on the specific execution situation.

A system includes sensors that obtain occupant data of an occupant within the ego vehicle. The ego vehicle is part of a platoon of vehicles. The system includes one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations. The operations include determining, based on the occupant data, an impairment status of the occupant; and in response to determining the impairment status, selectively implementing an action to address the impairment status. The action includes communicating, using one or more coded status messages, at least a portion of the impairment status to one or more other vehicles in the platoon, and implementing a navigation action of the ego vehicle.

The invention provides a formation anti-jam method and system based on intelligent network connection, a vehicle and an electronic device, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the driving state information of an automatic driving formation and a side lane parallel vehicle, judging whether the side vehicle has a jam state or not according to the driving state information, and when the side lane parallel vehicle has the jam state, stopping the jam. When the distance between the vehicle head and the traffic jam adding lane line is within a preset range, executing at least one of the following steps: sending warning information to parallel vehicles on a side lane; a protection device at the rear end of a front vehicle in the automatic driving formation is controlled to stretch out; and controlling a protection device at the front end of a rear vehicle in the automatic driving formation to extend. According to the method, the driving state information of the parallel vehicles on the side lane is monitored in real time, the plugging intention is accurately judged, measures can be taken in time at the initial stage of the plugging behavior, the stable driving state of the automatic driving formation vehicles is effectively maintained, and formation interruption or disordered driving order caused by the plugging behavior is reduced.

Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and / or apparatuses in a vehicle to utilize vehicle external sensor data, vehicle internal sensor data, vehicle capabilities and external CV2X input to determine, send, receive and utilize data elements to determine inter-vehicle spacing, intersection priority, lane change behavior and spacing and other autonomous vehicle behavior.

Systems and methods of operating vehicles to reduce bunching of the vehicles when traveling on a roadway determine an intra arrival time for two consecutive vehicles traveling on the roadway; calculate a virtual spacing between the two consecutive vehicles based on the intra arrival time; determine a following distance threshold; compare the virtual spacing between the two consecutive vehicles with the following distance threshold; determine that the two consecutive vehicles are in a bunched condition when the virtual spacing between the two consecutive vehicles is less than the following distance threshold; and control at least one of the two consecutive vehicles until the vehicles are no longer in the bunched condition.

The present invention provides a vehicle management system for controlling the movement of multiple vehicles along a route at the current geographical location of a transportation network. [Solution] A vehicle management system comprising: a receiver that receives detected motion parameters of multiple vehicles at their current geographical location and receives event data related to the occurrence of events relating to the movement of multiple vehicles; a processor that determines the required motion parameters of at least one of the multiple vehicles in response to an event, determines one or more actions that one or more of the multiple vehicles should take to achieve one or more required motion parameters based on the detected motion parameters and the required motion parameters, and generates one or more command signals to instruct one or more vehicles to take one or more actions; and a transmitter that transmits one or more command signals to each of one or more vehicles to enable the execution of one or more actions.

A control method of mixed traffic flow on freeway ramp based on controllable connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) is provided. A ramp is divided into a normal driving section, a vehicle platoon formation section and an accelerating and merging section. A vehicle platoon is formed by a leading CAV and human-driven vehicles (HDVs). Time interval [tmin, tmax] for the vehicle platoon to completely reach the merging point S is calculated. CAVs on the main lane and ramp are cooperatively controlled, and a merging gap is reserved for the ramp vehicle platoon. The vehicle platoon is allowed to accelerate and merge into the main lane. By means of the Internet-of-Vehicle (IoV) technology, the traffic situation on the main lane and downstream merging zone can be obtained in advance, and speeds of the CAVs are cooperatively controlled to lead the ramp vehicles to safely merge into the main lane.

The invention relates to a method for operating a vehicle (10), wherein the vehicle (10) comprises at least one assistance system (12), wherein the assistance system (12) controls the centering of the vehicle (10) on a roadway (14). In a method with improved assistance functions, it is provided that the vehicle (10) uses a detection device (16) to detect whether a vehicle (18) ahead is operating in an autonomous mode, whereby the control of the center guidance is carried out depending on at least one driving parameter of the vehicle (18) ahead when it has been detected that the vehicle (18) ahead is operating in autonomous mode.

To support vehicle traveling so that the whole road can be effectively utilized without disturbing order in a road having a specific lane where a specific kind of vehicle is made to preferentially travel.SOLUTION: The travel support device supports vehicle travel. The driving assistance device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the travel management processing when a target vehicle of a type different from a specific type is traveling on a road having a specific lane in which a vehicle of the specific type is preferentially traveled. The travel management process includes a travel permission process of permitting the target vehicle to travel in the specific lane when the target vehicle is performing platooning, and an entry suppression process of suppressing entry of the target vehicle into the specific lane when the target vehicle is not performing platooning.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

The present application relates to an apparatus for controlling platooning, a method for controlling platooning, and a system including the same. The apparatus for controlling platooning includes a processor for controlling platooning and a memory for storing platoon formation information of a platooning vehicle during platooning. When controlling platooning, the processor can automatically form a platoon based on the platoon formation information stored in the memory.

The invention discloses a multi-module vehicle transfer safety control method for a large prefabricated water outlet structure. The multi-module vehicle transfer safety control method comprises the steps of multi-vehicle quick connection based on electromagnetic induction, real-time leveling of component supporting pressure and cooperative braking of a multi-module transfer vehicle. Through the connection auxiliary device based on electromagnetic induction, the adjacent vehicles are automatically guided to move and be aligned through controllable electromagnetic force, and rapid, accurate and flexible connection of the multiple vehicles is achieved; the integrated electromagnetic supporting seat is matched with the permanent magnet butt joint component embedded in the bottom of the component, the pressure of each supporting point is monitored in real time, and the supporting pressure is automatically and finely adjusted by dynamically adjusting the electromagnetic force, so that the load of the irregular component is uniformly distributed on each supporting point all the time; an electromagnetic braking device with an extremely high response speed is adopted, so that high-precision synchronization of a multi-module vehicle braking system is achieved; by integrating the electromagnetic induction technology, the transfer safety of oversized, overweight and irregular components is guaranteed.

Provided is a 5G-NR-V2X platooning application service communication method. A platooning communication method according to an embodiment may include: creating, by a lead vehicle, platooning according to negotiations with a follow vehicle; executing, by the lead vehicle, the created platooning with the follow vehicle; and withdrawing, by the lead vehicle, the follow vehicle from the platooning. Accordingly, platooning is enabled based on safe and accurate determination through clear information exchange between platooning vehicles or between platooning vehicles and infrastructures, and more efficient and effect platooning services are enabled through support of joining / disjoining between platooning groups.

Methods, devices and systems enable controlling an autonomous vehicle by identifying vehicles that are within a threshold distance of the autonomous vehicle, determining an autonomous capability metric of each of the identified vehicles, and adjusting a driving parameter of the autonomous vehicle based on the determined autonomous capability metric of each of the identified vehicles. Embodiments may further include determining, based on the determined ACMs, whether one or more identified vehicles would provide an operational advantage to the autonomous vehicle in a cooperative driving engagement, and initiating a cooperative driving engagement with the one or more identified vehicles in response to determining that the one or more identified vehicles would provide an operational advantage to the autonomous vehicle in a cooperative driving engagement.

The invention discloses a dynamic management method, system and device for mixed traffic flow, a medium and a product. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring participants of a mixed traffic flow scene; the participants comprise controllable participants and uncontrollable participants; clustering the controllable participants according to a preset group scale range to obtain at least one microscopic group; when a state change notification from the participant is received, searching an affected first microscopic group from the microscopic groups, and recombining the first microscopic group according to the state change notification; and reordering the microcosmic groups at each time step, regarding each reordered microcosmic group as a formation control object, and performing formation control on the participants. By adopting the embodiment of the invention, the efficient division of the traffic flow can be realized, the compactness of the microscopic group is ensured to be maintained in real time, the computing complexity of the cloud during traffic flow management is effectively reduced, and the management efficiency and the resource utilization rate are improved.

The invention discloses an expressway toll station non-electronic toll collection (ETC) channel automobile queuing decision-making method for distinguishing common automobiles and trucks, a plurality of non-electronic toll collection (ETC) channels exist in an expressway toll station designed and described in the scheme, and the situation that automobiles are arranged in a long queue to wait for payment possibly occurs in the non-ETC channels. Therefore, how to select a proper payment channel from a plurality of non-ETC channels by a vehicle subsequently driving into a highway toll station is a key problem urgently needing to be solved. Meanwhile, a common vehicle and a truck are obviously different in vehicle body length, follow-up speed, payment duration and the like. The invention provides an expressway toll station non-electronic toll collection channel automobile queuing decision-making method for distinguishing common automobiles and trucks. In the method, automobiles subsequently driving into an expressway toll station are subjected to afflux decision-making according to factors such as the number and the type of current queuing automobiles on different non-ETC lanes.

The invention relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method. On the basis of position information of a plurality of vehicles, the information processing device detects the presence of a fleet in which a number of vehicles greater than or equal to a first threshold value are traveling or stopped continuously at a speed lower than a first speed on a first lane of a road including a plurality of lanes. When the fleet is within a predetermined range from a first facility located on the first lane side of the road, and no matter how the lighting color of a signal lamp arranged at a first intersection is, the number of vehicles which are about to turn to the first facility side is greater than or equal to a second threshold value within the predetermined range. The information processing device determines that the fleet is a first fleet caused by entry into the first facility. The information processing device causes a first vehicle traveling in front of a first fleet on a first lane to display a first object related to the first fleet on a display device so as to overlap with a real space.