Vehicle and Control Method Thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsYoungchul Oh, Haeryong Lee, TaeDong Oh, Wanjae Lee
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Abstract
A vehicle may include a range sensor, an image sensor, a communication device configured to transmit or receive data between vehicles, a controller configured to determine whether there is a following vehicle based on the data collected by the range sensor and the image sensor, to create a target lane when there is no following vehicle, and to determine a risk of lane change, and a driving system configured to drive the vehicle by receiving a control signal from the controller.
Claims21
A vehicle comprising:
- a range sensor configured to collect data about an object around the vehicle;
- an image sensor configured to collect image data around the vehicle;
- a communication device configured to transmit or receive data the vehicle and another vehicle;
- a controller configured to, upon reception of a lane change signal from a vehicle ahead in a platoon formed by the vehicle and the vehicle ahead through the communication device, determine whether there is a following vehicle based on the data collected by the range sensor and the image sensor, to create a target lane when there is no following vehicle, and to determine a risk of lane change;
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- a driving system configured to drive the vehicle based on a control signal from the controller.
A control method for a vehicle, the method comprising:
- collecting data about an object around the vehicle;
- collecting image data around the vehicle;
- receiving a lane change signal from a vehicle ahead in a platoon formed by the vehicle and the vehicle ahead;
- determining whether there exists a following vehicle based on image data and data about an object around the vehicle;
- creating a target lane when there is no following vehicle;
- determining a risk of lane change to the target lane;
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- performing lane changing to the target lane when there is no risk of lane change.
A control method for vehicles driven in a platoon, the method comprising:
- collecting platoon information and information about nearby objects, the collecting being performed by each of the vehicles that form the platoon;
- determining, by a lead vehicle in the platoon, a situation to change lanes based on the information about the nearby objects;
- sending, by the lead vehicle in the platoon, a lane change signal to an intermediate vehicle in the platoon;
- determining, by a following vehicle, that the following vehicle corresponds to a tail vehicle in the platoon, the following vehicle being a vehicle following the lead vehicle and one or more intermediate vehicles;
- creating, by the tail vehicle, a target lane;
- determining, by the tail vehicle, a risk of lane change to the target lane;
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- performing, by the tail vehicle, lane changing to the target lane when there is no risk of lane change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.