Patent ID: 8948995
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: B60W

Abstract:
1. A method of predicting a dynamic state of a preceding vehicle within a platoon, the preceding vehicle being immediately ahead of a host vehicle, the platoon also including a forward vehicle at a foremost position of a platoon, the method comprising: providing a platoon model, the platoon model being a dynamic model of the platoon and having model parameters related to each vehicle in the platoon; estimating model parameters for the platoon; adaptively updating the model parameters using vehicle data received from vehicles within the platoon; using the platoon model to predict the dynamic state of the preceding vehicle, the platoon being a line of vehicles on a road, the platoon including the host vehicle, the preceding vehicle, and a forward vehicle ahead of the preceding vehicle, at the foremost position of the platoon, the platoon model being derived from a car-following model for each leader-follower vehicle pair in the platoon, the dynamic state including position and velocity of the preceding vehicle.