Method and system for performing recuperation
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorAndreas Roth
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Abstract
A method for performing recuperation for an ego vehicle, which has at least one electrical machine and is located with at least one further road user on a route in a traffic situation, wherein a drone which has at least one camera is used, wherein the ego vehicle is accompanied on the route by the flying drone, wherein the traffic situation in which the ego vehicle is located is acquired using the at least one camera, wherein the recuperation for the ego vehicle is performed in dependence on the acquired traffic situation, wherein mechanical energy of the ego vehicle is converted into electrical energy using the at least one electrical machine during performance of the recuperation for the ego vehicle.
Claims15
A method for performing recuperation for an ego vehicle located on a road with a plurality of third party vehicles, the method comprising:
- providing a drone which has at least two cameras that is configured to fly above the road in proximity to the ego vehicle;
- acquiring, with a first camera of the drone, traffic on the road in the front of the ego vehicle;
- acquiring, with a second camera of the drone, traffic on the road behind the ego vehicle;
- performing recuperation for the ego vehicle based on both the traffic on the road in the front of the ego vehicle and the traffic on the road behind the ego vehicle, wherein the recuperation comprises driving along a selected route on the road with forced recuperation based upon current traffic from a viewpoint of the drone and predicted traffic determined based on the current traffic.
A system comprising:
- a drone which has at least two cameras;
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- at least one control unit, wherein the drone is configured to fly above a road in proximity to an ego vehicle, wherein a first camera of the drone is configured to acquire traffic on the road in the front of the ego vehicle, a second camera of the drone is configured to acquire traffic on the road behind the ego vehicle, and the at least one control unit is configured to instruct the ego vehicle to perform recuperation based on both the traffic on the road in the front of the ego vehicle and the traffic on the road behind the ego vehicle, wherein the recuperation comprises driving along a selected route on the road with forced recuperation based upon current traffic from a viewpoint of the drone and predicted traffic determined based on the current traffic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.