公开(公告)号：US20240109561A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-04

申请号：US17956152

申请日：2022-09-29

Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Inventor： Stuart C. SALTER ,  Adam WINT ,  Brendan F. DIAMOND ,  Meghan PREISS ,  Pietro BUTTOLO ,  Lia PILLEN

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60Q5/00 ,  G07C9/10 ,  G08G1/00

CPC classification number: B60W60/0025 ,  B60Q5/005 ,  G07C9/10 ,  G08G1/22 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  B60W2556/45

Abstract: A system receives a request for gate formation, including indication of a location where one or more vehicles are to form a gate. The system determines a number of vehicles to form the gate. The system also determines available vehicles in proximity to the location and, responsive to the available vehicles including at least the number of vehicles, selects the number of vehicles from the available vehicles to serve as gate vehicles. Also, the system instructs the gate vehicles to autonomously travel to the location and arrange in a designated formation, included in the instruction, to form the gate.