Electrical road track module, system and method
AssigneeElonroad AB
InventorDan Zethraeus
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Abstract
An electrical road track module is disclosed. The electrical road track module comprising a plurality of segments configured to power a vehicle, the segments being separated along the electrical road track module by electrically isolating members; and a plurality of radar sensors being arranged along the electrical road track module. Also a method for controlling such an electrical road track module is disclosed.
Claims17
An electrical road track module comprising:
- a plurality of segments configured to power a vehicle, the segments being separated along the electrical road track module by electrically isolating members;
- a plurality of radar sensors being arranged along the electrical road track module;
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- control circuitry configured to receive radar sensing signals from the plurality of radar sensors and to activate and/or deactivate segments of the electrical road track module based on the radar sensing signals from the plurality of radar sensors.
An electrical road track system comprising:
- a plurality of electrical road track modules arranged along a road, each electrical road track module comprising:
- a plurality of segments configured to power a vehicle, the segments being separated along the electrical road track module by electrically isolating members, and
- a plurality of radar sensors being arranged along the electrical road track module;
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- a control server comprising control circuitry configured to receive radar sensing signals from the plurality of radar sensors and to activate and/or deactivate segments of the electrical road track modules based on the radar sensing signals from the plurality of radar sensors.
A method for controlling an electrical road track module comprising a plurality of segments configured to power a vehicle, and a plurality of radar sensors being arranged along the electrical road track module, wherein the method-comprises:
- sensing presence of objects along the electrical road track module by analyzing radar signals from the radar sensors;
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- activating and/or deactivating segments of the electrical road track module based on the presence of objects along the electrical road track module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.