89 results about "Platoon" patented technology

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting information between vehicles of a vehicle platoon during a lane change for circumventing an obstacle. A first vehicle of the vehicle platoonchecks, in response to an identification of the obstacle, whether an evasive maneuver of the first vehicle into an alternative lane is possible. If the check yields that the evasive maneuver of the first vehicle is not possible, an assistance request is output to a communication interface for communication with at least one second vehicle of the vehicle platoon to prompt the second vehicle to conduct an evasive maneuver into the alternative lane. The present invention further relates to a method used for processing an assistance request output when a first vehicle in the vehicle platoon changes the lane by at least one second vehicle of the vehicle platoon, a corresponding device and a computer program.

The invention discloses a vehicle queue mapping method and a calculation method thereof for an adaptive distance to a following vehicle. The vehicle queue mapping method comprises the following steps:acquiring GPS points on a travel path of a vehicle queue by a map acquisition vehicle, and constructing a characteristic map; numbering each vehicle in the vehicle queue from 1 to n; and enabling each vehicle in the vehicle queue to execute the operations of acquiring own location and speed information, finding the nearest point on the characteristic map according to the own location information,taking displacement of the point in the characteristic map as own displacement, wirelessly sending own number, displacement and speed information to the other vehicles, defining an expected adaptivedistance to the following vehicle according to the own number and speed as well as the received numbers and speeds of the other vehicles and then calculating an error of the distance to the followingvehicle by combining the own displacement and the received displacements of the other vehicles. The vehicle queue mapping method disclosed by the invention can improve accuracy of collaborative calculation of the distance to the following vehicle as well as flexibility of the vehicle queue and gives consideration to traffic flow density and safety of the following vehicle.

A hybrid electric vehicle is capable of maximizing energy efficiency during platooning, and a platooning control method is carried out on the hybrid electric vehicle. The method includes acquiring acceleration information and deceleration information of each of a plurality of vehicles traveling in a platoon form for platooning so as to realize a pulse-and-gliding traveling mode, determining a traveling order of the vehicles during the platooning based on the acceleration information, and determining a time at which to start a glide phase of a following vehicle in the determined traveling order based on a time at which a glide phase of a preceding vehicle starts using the acceleration information and the deceleration information.