公开(公告)号：US20180144640A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-24

申请号：US15860450

申请日：2018-01-02

Applicant: Peloton Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Charles A. PRICE ,  Stephen Michael ERLIEN ,  John Connelly KEGELMAN ,  Todd Christopher KLAUS ,  Austin Bennett SCHUH ,  Brian Jeremy SILVERMAN ,  Joshua Philip SWITKES ,  Colleen Kelly TWITTY

IPC: G08G1/00 ,  B60R16/023 ,  G07C5/00 ,  G05D1/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0293 ,  B60R16/0231 ,  B60W10/06 ,  B60W10/10 ,  B60W10/184 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W10/22 ,  B60W30/14 ,  B60W30/165 ,  B60W30/18 ,  B60W40/13 ,  B60W2300/12 ,  B60W2510/0657 ,  B60W2510/1005 ,  B60W2520/28 ,  B60W2530/10 ,  B60W2530/20 ,  B60W2540/10 ,  B60W2550/302 ,  B60W2550/306 ,  B60W2550/308 ,  B60W2550/406 ,  B60W2550/408 ,  B60W2710/0605 ,  B60W2710/0627 ,  B60W2710/0661 ,  B60W2710/0666 ,  B60W2710/1005 ,  B60W2710/20 ,  B60W2710/22 ,  G01G19/022 ,  G01G19/086 ,  G01S19/13 ,  G05D1/0055 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/0278 ,  G05D1/0285 ,  G05D1/0295 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G07C5/008 ,  G08G1/127 ,  G08G1/22 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04W4/46 ,  H04W84/005

Abstract: Controllers, control architectures, systems and methods are described for controlling a host vehicle's participation in a platoon. Described vehicle platooning control systems may include a platoon controller and a gateway processor. The platoon controller is configured to determine torque and braking requests for at least partially automatically controlling the host vehicle to platoon with a platoon partner. The gateway processor coordinates communications between a host vehicle and the platoon partner and optionally a network operations center. A dedicated communications link may optionally directly connect the platoon controller to the gateway processor, with no other devices being coupled to the dedicated communications link. In some embodiments, the gateway processor is not coupled to any of the host vehicle's control related communication bus(es). In some embodiments, the gateway processor includes a message logger and the platoon controller does not have any logging capabilities.

公开(公告)号：US20180143651A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-24

申请号：US15860024

申请日：2018-01-02

Applicant: Peloton Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Todd Christopher KLAUS ,  Colleen Kelly TWITTY ,  Stephen Michael ERLIEN ,  John Connelly KEGELMAN ,  Charles A. PRICE ,  Austin Bennett SCHUH ,  Joshua Philip SWITKES

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G08G1/00 ,  B60W30/165

CPC classification number: G05D1/0293 ,  B60R16/0231 ,  B60W10/06 ,  B60W10/10 ,  B60W10/184 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W10/22 ,  B60W30/14 ,  B60W30/165 ,  B60W30/18 ,  B60W40/13 ,  B60W2300/12 ,  B60W2510/0657 ,  B60W2510/1005 ,  B60W2520/28 ,  B60W2530/10 ,  B60W2530/20 ,  B60W2540/10 ,  B60W2550/302 ,  B60W2550/306 ,  B60W2550/308 ,  B60W2550/406 ,  B60W2550/408 ,  B60W2710/0605 ,  B60W2710/0627 ,  B60W2710/0661 ,  B60W2710/0666 ,  B60W2710/1005 ,  B60W2710/20 ,  B60W2710/22 ,  G01G19/022 ,  G01G19/086 ,  G01S19/13 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/0278 ,  G05D1/0285 ,  G05D1/0295 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G07C5/008 ,  G08G1/22 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04W4/46 ,  H04W84/005

Abstract: Controllers, control architectures, systems and methods are described for controlling a host vehicle's participation in a platoon. In some embodiments, a vehicle control system includes a vehicle controller configured to determine vehicle control commands for at least partially automatically controlling the host vehicle based at least in part on sensor information. The vehicle control commands are arranged to be directly or indirectly utilized by one or more host vehicle control units resident on the host vehicle. The vehicle control system also includes one or more safety monitoring algorithms that, during at least partially automated driving, verify that selected vehicle control commands received from the vehicle controller meet selected safety criteria. At least some of the safety algorithms utilize sensor data in the verification of the commands received from the vehicle controller. The sensor data used by the safety algorithms may come from the host vehicle and/or a second vehicle.