US 12,596,377 B2Granted

Apparatus for controlling group driving and method thereof

AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.

InventorYong Kwan Ji

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Abstract

The apparatus for controlling group driving according to as aspect may include an inter-vehicle communication unit for communicating with a leader vehicle to receive the driving state and traveling track of the leader vehicle, a leader vehicle learning unit for learning a driving pattern of the leader vehicle based on the driving state of the leader vehicle received through the inter-vehicle communication unit, an autonomous drive unit for autonomously driving the follower vehicle in accordance with the traveling track of the leader vehicle, and a follow-up control unit for receiving the driving state of the leader vehicle to learn the driving pattern of the leader vehicle, controlling the autonomous drive unit to follow the traveling track of the leader vehicle, and performing the autonomous driving by applying the driving pattern of the leader vehicle.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method for controlling a vehicle platooning system, the method comprising:

generating a platooning group including a leading vehicle and a following vehicle, wherein the leading vehicle is a first vehicle in the platooning group, and the following vehicle is one or more vehicle operating in the platooning group behind the leading vehicle;
driving the leading vehicle based on a manual mode;
controlling a motion in a platoon based on data obtained from at least one sensor;
driving the following vehicle based on a first automation mode when there is a first distance between the leading vehicle and the following vehicle included in the platooning group;
driving the following vehicle based on a second automation mode different from the first automation mode when there is a second distance between the leading vehicle and the following vehicle included in the platooning group, wherein the second distance is longer than the first distance;
and
driving the following vehicle based on the second automation mode when the following vehicle is behind an other vehicle, wherein the other vehicle is not included in the platooning group.

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Facts

Application: 18/733,352Filed 4 Jun 2024 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2017-01681918 Dec 2017
Published: US 2024/0319728 A126 Sep 2024
Granted: 7 Apr 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G05D 1/0291
Involving a plurality of land vehicles, e.g. fleet or convoy travelling: fleet control
B60W 30/165
Control of distance between vehicles, e.g. keeping a distance to preceding vehicle: automatically following the path of a preceding lead vehicle,…
G05D 1/227
Remote-control arrangements: handing over between remote control and on-board control; Handing over between remote control arrangements
G05D 1/228
Command input arrangements: command input arrangements located on-board unmanned vehicles

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Application16/215,516Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Dec 2018
Application17/490,238Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Sep 2021
US 11,163,316 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Nov 2021
Application17/736,713Parent of this continuation · filed 4 May 2022
US 11,868,141 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Jan 2024
US 2024/0319728 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Sep 2024
US 12,038,766 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0179337 A1Published application
US 2022/0026923 A1Published application
US 2022/0261010 A1Published application
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