Method for controlling vehicles repeating a cycle

US12105524B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Volvo Truck Corporation · SE

Inventors

• Mohammad Manjurul ISLAM · Merrimack, US
• Jonas Hellgren · Gothenburg, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2020
• Grant date: Oct 1, 2024
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2720/103
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention provides a method for controlling a plurality of vehicles which are repeating a cycle of driving along a route, which has at least one single vehicle area (SLTA1, . . . , SLTAm, SP, TP), characterized by—determining speed profiles for the vehicles,—creating a set of different activation times (t11, t21, tr11, tr21) for the vehicles, from an activation position (SP, TP) of the cycle,—simulating vehicle movements through the cycle, with the speed profiles, and the created set of activation times (t11, t21, tr11, tr21),—repeating, a plurality of times, the steps of creating a set of activation times, and simulating vehicle movements, wherein the created set of activation times are different from one repetition to another,—selecting, for controlling the vehicles, from the sets of activation times created by the repetition of the step of creating a set of activation times, a set of activation times (t12, t22, tr12, tr22) for which the simulation shows that there is a minimum time overlap (to21) of vehicles at any of the at least one single vehicle area, and—controlling the vehicles according to the speed profiles and the selected set of activation times.