US 11,835,964 B2
Method for determining a high-density platooning driving maneuver, apparatus, vehicle and computer program
Guillaume Jornod, Berlin (DE); and Andreas Pfadler, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Filed by VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Jun. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/900,282.
Claims priority of application No. 19179745 (EP), filed on Jun. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0393850 A1, Dec. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); B60W 30/165 (2020.01)
CPC G05D 1/0293 (2013.01) [B60W 30/165 (2013.01); G05D 1/0289 (2013.01); G05D 1/0295 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a processing device configured to determine a high-density platooning driving maneuver for subsequent coordination of a platoon of platoon members that are transportation vehicles, wherein the determination includes:
selection of a high-density platooning closing maneuver time period value during which an inter-vehicle distance between the platoon members is decreased;
selection of a high-density platooning opening maneuver time period value during which the inter-vehicle distance between the platoon members is increased; and
testing the selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuvers time period values relative to at least one test criterion,
wherein the testing relative to the at least one test criterion includes a test of energy consumption while also considering a predicted quality of service profile of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication link for communication between the platoon members, wherein the predicted quality of service profile indicates a quality of service of the vehicle-to-vehicle communication link in the future for communicating between platoon members relative to a required end-to-end latency of the communication link that provides safe running and control and adapt inter-vehicle distance between the platoon members, and
wherein, in response to the selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuvers not fulfilling the testing, the determination further includes waiting a time period and performing the selecting a high-density platooning closing maneuver time value and selecting a high-density platooning opening maneuver time period value again, and testing newly selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuver time period values relative to the at least one test criterion.