Method and system for controlling a plurality of vehicles, in particular autonomous vehicles

US12399511B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB · SE

Inventors

• Jonas Hellgren · Gothenburg, SE
• Abdullah Mamun · Gothenburg, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 22, 2022
• Grant date: Aug 26, 2025
• Expiry date: Sep 1, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/69
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

There is provided a method for controlling a plurality of vehicles sharing a set of common resources Each vehicle's motion is controllable by a finite set of predefined commands. The method includes forming subsets of the common resources on the basis of predefined motion constraints of individual ones of the vehicles; partitioning the vehicles into disjoint clusters on the basis of the subsets; executing a tree-based planning algorithm. Each execution including an evaluation of sequences of the predefined commands to be fed to the vehicles in a single cluster and a selection of a preferred sequence of the commands; and feeding the preferred sequence of commands to the vehicles in each cluster.