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Collision avoidance among vehicles

  • US 9,396,659 B2
  • Filed: 12/12/2013
  • Issued: 07/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of collision avoidance among vehicles, each vehicle comprising a management module coupled, for data communications, to other management modules and to a central database manager, the method comprising:

  • establishing, by management modules of a set of traveling vehicles having a location within a predefined area, a collision zone comprising a data communications network of the management modules of the traveling vehicles, wherein each management module of a traveling vehicle is included in at least one collision zone and a particular management module of one of the traveling vehicles is included in a plurality of collision zones;

    sharing, amongst the management modules of the collision zone, dynamic information describing the traveling vehicles;

    retrieving, by each of the management modules of the collision zone from the central database manager, static information describing the traveling vehicles;

    detecting, by a management module of a first traveling vehicle in the collision zone, a potential collision with a second traveling vehicle in the collision zone in dependence upon the dynamic and static information describing the first and second traveling vehicle; and

    controlling, by the management module of the first traveling vehicle, the first traveling vehicle to take action in dependence upon the dynamic and static information describing the first and second traveling vehicle.

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