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US 6,032,097 AGranted
Vehicle platoon control system
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkira Iihoshi, Sachio Kobayashi, Yoshimi Furukawa
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Abstract
A target motor vehicle is established for a platoon of motor vehicles running on a road, and motion information of the target motor vehicle is transmitted to the motor vehicles which follow the target motor vehicle through intervehicular communications. Each of the following motor vehicles controls itself to run in platoon based on the transmitted motion information.
Claims6
A vehicle platoon control system for controlling a platoon of motor vehicles, comprising:
- means for establishing a target motor vehicle for leading the platoon of motor vehicles;
- means for transmitting motion information including a position and a speed of the target motor vehicle to the motor vehicles which follow the target motor vehicle;
- and
- controlling means on each of the following motor vehicles, wherein the controlling means on a given motor vehicle selected from the following motor vehicles comprises a first control loop for controlling the given motor vehicle to follow the target vehicle, and a second control loop having a gain which is nonlinearly variable with respect to the intervehicular distance between the given motor vehicle and a motor vehicle within the platoon preceding the given motor vehicle.
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A vehicle platoon control system for controlling a platoon of motor vehicles, comprising:
- means for establishing a hypothetical target motor vehicle for leading the platoon of motor vehicles;
- means for transmitting motion information of the hypothetical motor vehicle to the motor vehicles which follow the hypothetical target motor vehicle;
- and
- controlling means on each of the following motor vehicles, wherein the controlling means on a given motor vehicle selected from the following motor vehicles comprises a first control loop for controlling the given motor vehicle to follow the hypothetical target vehicle, and a second control loop having a gain which is nonlinearly variable with respect to the intervehicular distance between the given motor vehicle and a motor vehicle within the platoon preceding the given motor vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.