PLATOON TRAVEL SYSTEM
First Claim
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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Abstract
A platoon travel system organizes and performs a platoon travel of plural vehicles along a preset travel route. The system has a grouping unit that divides the plural vehicles into a top group and a tail end group based on projection area information of the vehicles, and groups vehicles with a projection area in a first range to the top group and vehicles with a projection area in a second range to the tail end group, which is less than the first range. A final position determination unit determines a position of each of the plural vehicles in the vehicle groups based on the depart point information, positions the top group vehicles in an ascending order of depart point distances, and positions the tail end group vehicles in a descending order of depart point distances, thereby preventing deterioration of whole platoon energy consumption.
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16 Claims
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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:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. 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:
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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, remaining energy information which includes a remaining energy of each vehicle; 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 in which 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 remaining energy information, positioning the top group vehicles in a descending order of the remaining energies, and positioning the tail end group vehicles in an ascending order of the remaining energies.
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16. 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:
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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, travel output information which includes a travel output of each vehicle; 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 in which 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 travel output information, positioning the top group vehicles in a descending order of the travel outputs, and positioning the tail end group vehicles in an ascending order of the travel outputs.
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