US 11,482,113 B2 · Vehicle and method of platooning control therefor

Abstract

A vehicle and method of platooning control therefor are provided to achieve optimum communication charge efficiency while a plurality of vehicles perform platooning. A data communication method of a platooning vehicle includes starting platooning by a plurality of vehicles and sharing data charge rate information through a first protocol for vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V) by the plurality of vehicles. A first master vehicle and at least one slave vehicle are determined based on the shared data charge rate information. An access point (AP) is then activated according to a second protocol for short distance communication by the first master vehicle and an AP of the master vehicle is accessed and data communication is performed by the at least one slave vehicle.

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Dependent claims

A data communication method of a platooning vehicle, comprising:

starting platooning by a plurality of vehicles;
sharing data charge rate information through a first protocol for vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V) by the plurality of vehicles;
determining a first master vehicle and at least one slave vehicle among the plurality of vehicles based on the shared data charge rate information;
activating an access point (AP) according to a second protocol for short distance communication by the first master vehicle;
and
accessing an AP of the master vehicle and performing data communication by the at least one slave vehicle,
wherein the determining of the first master vehicle includes determining a vehicle using a most inexpensive data charge rate among the plurality of vehicles as the first master vehicle.

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A vehicle, comprising:

a communicator including a first communication module configured to support a first protocol for vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V), and a second communication module configured to support a second protocol for short distance communication;
a first controller configured to execute platooning based on information acquired through the at least one communicator;
and
a second controller when the platooning with at least one another vehicle is started, configured to:
share data charge rate information with the at least one another vehicle through the first communication module;
determine whether a vehicle is a first master vehicle or a slave vehicle based on the shared data charge rate information;
and
activate an access point (AP) that the at least one another vehicle determined as the slave vehicle is capable of accessing, through the second communication module, in response to determining the vehicle as the first master vehicle;
wherein the second controller is configured to determine the vehicle as the first master vehicle when a charge rate of the vehicle is a most inexpensive charge rate among the shared charge rate information, and determine the vehicle as the slave vehicle when a charge rate of the at least one another vehicle is most inexpensive.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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