Autonomous vehicle management
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorUpali Priyantha Mudalige
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Abstract
A method for controlling a vehicle upon a roadway includes monitoring a trajectory of a host vehicle based upon a global positioning device within the host vehicle, monitoring a first wireless communication between the host vehicle and a plurality of target vehicles, the first wireless communication including a respective trajectory of each of the target vehicles based upon a respective global positioning device within each of the target vehicles, determining navigational commands for the host vehicle based upon the trajectory of the host vehicle and the trajectory of each of the target vehicles, and operating the host vehicle based upon the navigational commands.
Claims39
Method for controlling a vehicle upon a roadway comprising:
- monitoring a trajectory of a host vehicle based upon a global positioning device within the host vehicle;
- monitoring a first wireless communication between the host vehicle and a plurality of target vehicles, said first wireless communication comprising a respective trajectory of each of the target vehicles based upon a respective global positioning device within each of the target vehicles;
- determining navigational commands for the host vehicle based upon the trajectory of the host vehicle and the trajectory of each of the target vehicles;
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- operating the host vehicle based upon the navigational commands.
Method for controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:
- monitoring a current vehicle position with a global positioning device within the vehicle;
- communicating the current vehicle position through a wireless communication between the vehicle and a remotely located device;
- remotely monitoring at said remotely located device an operating environment of the vehicle;
- remotely determining at said remotely located device a commanded vehicle position based upon the current vehicle position and the monitored operating environment, said commanded vehicle position comprising a global positioning coordinate;
- receiving within the vehicle the commanded vehicle position through the wireless communication;
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- controlling the vehicle based upon the commanded vehicle position.
Method for controlling a plurality of vehicles within a platoon of vehicles, the method comprising:
- transmitting from each of the plurality of vehicles a respective current position of the respective vehicle through a respective vehicle-to-vehicle communications device based upon data from a respective global positioning device;
- within a leader vehicle selected from the plurality of vehicles:
- monitoring a road geometry proximate to the leader vehicle;
- determining a desired formation for the platoon comprising determining a plurality of follower positions for the platoon based upon the current position of the leader vehicle and the road geometry;
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- assigning a respective one of the plurality of follower positions to each of the plurality of vehicles that is not the leader vehicle;
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- controlling each of the plurality of vehicles that is not the leader vehicle based upon the respective assigned follower position and the respective current position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.