88 results about "Platoon" patented technology

A communication system and method for supporting a plurality of vehicle-to-everything radio access technologies (V2X RATs) is provided. The communication system configured to support multiple V2X RATs transmits, using a first V2X RAT, an indication of its availability to support an interworking function between the plurality of V2X RATs. The communication system receives an instruction to provide the interworking function between different V2X RATs. The interworking function may be incorporated in a vehicle that is joined to a platoon configured to use a first V2X RAT, and provide the interworking function between the first and a second V2X RAT. The interworking function may be used to add further vehicles to the platoon that communicate using only the second V2X RAT.

A method in which several vehicles, which perform platooning in an autonomous driving system (Autonomous Driving System), pass a target vehicle, in which the several vehicles constituting a platoon include a first vehicle controlling platooning and a second vehicle controlled by the first vehicle, and the first vehicle checks information of the platoon and determines a passing operation of the platoon on the basis of the platoon information received from the server and information about the out-platoon vehicles, thereby being able to control the vehicles performing the platooning to pass the target vehicles. One or more of an autonomous vehicle, a user terminal, and a server of the present invention may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone ((Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV), a robot, an AR (Augmented Reality) device, a VR (Virtual Reality) device, a device associated with 5G services, etc.

The invention relates to a method for determining a dynamic vehicle distance (Adyn) between a following vehicle (FF) and a preceding vehicle (VF) of a platoon, wherein a V2V signal (S1) can be wirelessly transferred between the following vehicle (FF) and the preceding vehicle (VF), comprising at least the following steps: determining a current maximum following-vehicle deceleration (zMax_FF) of the following vehicle (FF); determining a current transfer time for transferring to the following vehicle (FF) the information that the preceding vehicle (VF) has initiated an emergency braking operation (N); determining a current maximum preceding-vehicle deceleration (zMax_VF) of the preceding vehicle (VF); and determining the dynamic vehicle distance (Adyn) from a transfer distance (s) and from abraking distance difference (sB), wherein the transfer distance (s) indicates the distance traveled by the following vehicle (FF) between the initiation of an emergency braking operation (N) by the preceding vehicle (VF) and the initiation of an emergency braking operation (N) by the following vehicle (FF), wherein the transfer distance (s) depends on the current transfer time, and wherein the braking distance difference (sB) indicates a difference between a preceding-vehicle braking distance (w_VF) defined by the maximum preceding-vehicle deceleration (zMax_W) and a following-vehicle brakingdistance (w_FF) defined by the maximum following-vehicle deceleration (zMax_FF).

The present disclosure relates to a method for the automatic transverse guidance of a following vehicle (10A) in a vehicle platoon (30). The method comprises determining and receiving a plurality of lane data. A lane course is able to be determined on the basis of the plurality of lane data and the following vehicle (10A) is able to be transversely guided on the basis of the determined lane course. The method is able to prevent an increase in swaying movements from the front to the rear in the vehicle platoon. In addition, the vehicles of the vehicle platoon are able to remain in the startinglane, even when a vehicle of the vehicle platform driving in front changes lane.

Method (400) and control unit (210) for adjusting an inter vehicular distance (130) between vehicles (100a, 100b, 100c) in a platoon (110). The control unit (210) is configured to: obtain a geographical position for a vehicle (100a, 100b, 100c) in the platoon (110); determine a zone (200a) wherein the obtained geographical position is situated; determine an inter vehicular minimum distance limit,associated with the determined zone (200a); and adjust the inter vehicular distance (130) between the vehicles (100a, 100b, 100c) in the platoon (110) into the determined inter vehicular minimum distance limit by sending a control signal to the vehicle (100a, 100b, 100c) in the platoon (110).

Platoon management control systems and methods arrange two or more vehicles cooperatively travelling seriatim as a platoon along an associated roadway into a platoon arrangement in accordance with their relative braking capabilities and other brake-related performance characteristics such as braking efficiency. Braking efficiency can change over time and is in general affected by many factors suchas brake temperature, brake type, burnishing, vehicle weight, number of tires, tire wear, vehicle loading, road surface type and weather conditions. The relative braking capabilities are learned or otherwise calculated or determined in each vehicle and shared between the vehicles of the platoon. The platoon may be reorganized based on differences between the learned or otherwise calculated or determined relative braking capabilities. Desired gaps between the platooning vehicles may be increased or decreased in accordance with the learned or otherwise calculated or determined relative brakingcapabilities as necessary or desired.

The method for organizing a group of several separate vehicles in a platoon includes an identification step (a) in order to identify the candidate vehicles that are to form the platoonp The method also includes an acquisition step (b) in order to acquire, for each candidate vehicle, at least one parameter associated with a tire of the candidate vehicle, such as the wet grip index of the tire tyre, referred to as the “tire parameter”. Subsequently, based on the tire parameter, a processing step (c) for determining the rank attributed to the particular candidate vehicle in the platoon and/or the inter-vehicle distance which, at a given speed, must separate the candidate vehicle in question from the vehicle immediately in front in the platoon.

A platoon driving control system of a vehicle includes a detector configured to detect an obstacle positioned in a front according to a driving direction of a vehicle included in a platoon; a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing an algorithm that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: determine a braking strategy of the vehicle included in the platoon based on a driving speed of the platoon, and control a driving of the platoon based on the obstacle detected by the detector and the braking strategy.

The invention discloses an intelligent energy management method for autonomous platoon driving of parallel type hybrid electric vehicles. The method comprises the following steps that a vehicle platoon is established, and the models of the parallel type hybrid electric vehicles in the vehicle platoon and the motion system parameters of the whole vehicles are determined; the working mode of the parallel type hybrid electric vehicles is analyzed to obtain all the driving working modes of the parallel hybrid electric vehicles; according to the vehicle dynamics theory, the dynamic equation of thetransmission system of the whole vehicles is established, and the system efficiency calculation formula under different driving working modes is obtained; the energy management strategy model under the optimal system efficiency condition is established; the headstock distance and the driving vehicle speed requirements of the vehicle platoon are set, and the longitudinal dynamics model of the parallel type hybrid electric vehicle platoon is established; and based on a simulation platform, simulation analysis is carried out. The method has the beneficial effects that the purposes of improving the running safety and the passing efficiency and the fuel economy of the vehicle platoon are effectively improved.

A system and method are provided for estimating and applying vehicle tire traction. Vehicle data (e.g., movement and location-based data) and tire sensor data are collected at a vehicle and transmitted to a remote computing system (e.g., cloud server). A wear status is determined, and traction characteristics determined for at least one tire, based at least on the vehicle data and the determined tire wear status. The predicted tire traction characteristics are transmitted from the remote computing system to an active safety unit associated with the vehicle, or a fleet management system, wherein the recipient is configured to modify vehicle operation settings based on at least the predicted tire traction characteristics. A maximum speed for the vehicle may be defined by the recipient, or a minimum following distance where, e.g., the vehicle is one of multiple vehicles in a defined platoon.

The invention relates to a method for transforming between a long vehicle combination (10) and a platoon (12) on the move. The present invention also relates to vehicles (14a-b; 14b-c) for such a method.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a control method and device of a platform shielding door. The method comprises the following steps that if the current train is not the first train in the current platoon, the target shielding door number range corresponding to the current platform of the current train is determined according to the shielding door number range corresponding to the previousadjacent train, the number of the doors of the current train and the number of the preset interval shielding doors; and a shielding door opening instruction is sent to a shielding door control deviceof the current platform based on the target shielding door number range, so that the shielding door control device turns on all the shielding doors corresponding to the target shielding door number range in the current platform. By the adoption of the control method, the safety of passengers and train operation can be improved.

A vehicle management device including request information reception means for receiving request information for platooning multiple vehicles; implementation feasibility assessment means for assessing an implementation feasibility of a platoon based on the request information; and implementation permission means for permitting implementation of the platoon based on a result of assessing of the implementation feasibility.