Method for Moving, in Particular Controlling or Regulating, a Line of Vehicles

    公开(公告)号:US20180356835A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-13

    申请号:US16065558

    申请日:2016-12-01

    申请人: Daimler AG

    IPC分类号: G05D1/02 G08G1/00

    摘要: A method for moving a line of vehicles, which has at least a first vehicle and a second vehicle permanently and directly following the first vehicle, includes moving the vehicles at a specifiable, constant distance to each other along a route on the basis of a specifiable overall operating strategy which is assigned to the line of vehicles. For each vehicle of the line of vehicles, a respective individual operating strategy is specified depending on a route profile lying ahead, where the individual operating strategies differ from one another. As part of the overall operating strategy, the distance between the vehicles is increased before the line of vehicles reaches the route profile and each vehicle is moved along the route profile on the basis of the respective individual operating strategy. The line of vehicles is moved on the basis of the overall operating strategy after passing through the route profile.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD TO REDUCE VEHICLE RESOURCE DEPLETION RISK

    公开(公告)号:US20180348772A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15611250

    申请日:2017-06-01

    发明人: Jeffrey M. Stefan

    摘要: A system to reduce vehicle resource depletion risk which includes a memory, controller, efficiency module, mobile computing device, and fleet vehicle. The memory includes executable instructions. The controller executes the instructions. The controller communicates with an efficiency module. The efficiency module causes a fleet vehicle to optimally perform a rideshare task. The mobile computing device generates first location data and communicates the first location data to the controller. The fleet vehicle includes a vehicle system and a vehicle controls device and can communicate with the controller. The vehicle system generates second location data. The vehicle controls device commands the fleet vehicle to perform a rideshare task. The instructions enable the controller to: receive the first and second location data; perform the efficiency module to produce an output being partially based on the first and second location data and instructs the vehicle to perform a rideshare task; and communicate the output.

    System and method for determining an energy-efficient path of an autonomous device

    公开(公告)号:US10037027B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-31

    申请号:US15635222

    申请日:2017-06-28

    发明人: Bartosz Dabrowski

    IPC分类号: G05D1/00 G05D1/02

    摘要: A method for determining an energy-efficient path of an autonomous device wherein said autonomous device moves over a global grid of cells into which a given operating area has been split, the method being characterized in that determination of said energy-efficient path comprises the steps of: processing of the current cell (201); taking a measurement σ of the processing (202); classifying the measurement σ to be of a particular level Σ (203), taking into account a predefined division, of the measurements results range, into a plurality of measurements levels; storing said classified measurement in a memory of the autonomous device (204) and associating it with the current cell; selecting a reference probability grid (205); updating (207) the probabilities by applying the reference grid (100) to the global grid at its current position such that every cell on the reference grid (100) corresponds unambiguously to one cell on the global grid; and moving the autonomous device to a next cell of the global grid (208) and setting said next cell as the current cell (201) in order to process the next cell.