Control of vehicle combinations
AssigneeVolvo Truck Corporation
InventorsLena LARSSON, Emil PETTERSSON
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Abstract
A computer system for a vehicle combination comprising a truck and at least one trailer comprising processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: obtain information pertaining to a current truck drive mode from the truck, determine a suitable trailer drive mode, wherein the suitable trailer drive mode is determined among a plurality of predefined trailer drive modes, wherein the determination is based on the obtained current truck drive mode; and set the at least one trailer in the determined trailer drive mode.
Claims20
A computer system for a vehicle combination comprising a truck and at least one trailer, comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- obtain information pertaining to a current truck drive mode from the truck,
- determine a suitable trailer drive mode, wherein the suitable trailer drive mode is determined among a plurality of predefined trailer drive modes, wherein the determination is based on the obtained current truck drive mode;
- and
- set the at least one trailer in the determined trailer drive mode.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- obtaining, by processing circuitry of a computer system, information pertaining to a current truck drive mode from a truck;
- determining, by the processing circuitry, a suitable trailer drive mode, wherein the suitable trailer drive mode is determined among a plurality of predefined trailer drive modes, wherein the determination is based on the obtained current truck drive mode;
- and
- setting, by the processing circuitry, a trailer in the determined trailer drive mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.