Vehicle platooning systems and methods

Systems and methods for coordinating and controlling vehicles, for example heavy trucks, to follow closely behind each other, or linking, in a convenient, safe manner and thus to save significant amounts of fuel while increasing safety. In an embodiment, on-board controllers in each vehicle interact...

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Hauptverfasser:	Switkes, Joshua P, Berdichevsky, Eugene, Gerdes, Joseph Christian
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES CONTROLLING ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS REGULATING ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT SIGNALLING SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION TRANSPORTING VEHICLES IN GENERAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Zusammenfassung:	Systems and methods for coordinating and controlling vehicles, for example heavy trucks, to follow closely behind each other, or linking, in a convenient, safe manner and thus to save significant amounts of fuel while increasing safety. In an embodiment, on-board controllers in each vehicle interact with vehicular sensors to monitor and control, for example, relative distance, relative acceleration/deceleration, and speed. Additional safety features in at least some embodiments include providing each driver with one or more visual displays of forward and rearward looking cameras. Long-range communications are provided for coordinating vehicles for linking, and for communicating analytics to fleet managers or others.