Systems and methods for adjusting vehicle lane
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorScott Bergen
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Abstract
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for controlling the lane positions of a plurality of vehicles to reduce roadway wear. At least one controller is configured to receive information regarding a reference that may indicate a lane boundary. The controller determines a lane position offset from the reference, where the offset may be randomly selected or deterministically determined with an algorithm. The at least one controller is further configured to assign the lane position offset to one vehicle of a group of vehicles so that the assigned offset is different from the lane position offsets of the other vehicles. The assignment of different lane position offsets distributes wear across the lane of the roadway.
Claims11
A system for controlling lane positions of vehicles to distribute wear across a lane of a roadway, comprising:
- one or more sensors and a vehicle controller respectively associated with each of a plurality of vehicles, the one or more sensors for each of the plurality of vehicles configured to sense at least one marker along a roadway for use in determining lane positions of the respective vehicle within a lane of the roadway;
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- at least one processor configured to communicate with each of the vehicle controllers, and to randomly assign lane positions to each of the plurality of vehicles for the lane of the roadway such that the assigned lane positions to each respective vehicle are laterally distributed with respect to each other across the lane and between boundaries of the lane.
A method for controlling lane positions of vehicles to distribute wear across a lane of a roadway, comprising:
- randomly selecting, with a server, respective lane positions for each of a plurality of vehicles traveling along a lane of a roadway and having a vehicle controller communicating with the server, such that the selected lane positions for each respective vehicle of the plurality of vehicles are laterally distributed across the lane;
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- communicating, with each of the vehicles by the server, the lane position selected for the respective vehicle by the server, thereby causing the plurality of vehicles to travel along the lane at the selected lane positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.