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PLATOON TRAVEL SYSTEM

  • US 20140316865A1
  • Filed: 04/10/2014
  • Published: 10/23/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A platoon travel system for organizing a platoon of plural vehicles and performing a platoon travel of the plural vehicles along a preset travel route, the platoon travel system comprising:

  • a first acquisition unit acquiring, from each of the plural vehicles, projection area information which includes a projection area of each vehicle;

    a second acquisition unit acquiring, from each of the plural vehicles, depart point information which includes a depart point at which each vehicle departs from the preset travel route of the platoon;

    a grouping unit dividing the plural vehicles into a top group and a tail end group based on the projection area information, among which the vehicles with the projection area in a first range belong to the top group and the vehicles with the projection area in a second range belong to the tail end group, and the second range is less than the first range; and

    a final position determination unit determining an in-group position of each of the plural vehicles in the vehicle groups based on the depart point information, positioning the top group vehicles in an ascending order of depart point distances, and positioning the tail end group vehicles in a descending order of depart point distances.

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