Patent application EP19179745A (EP), filed 2019-06-12
Publication number: EP3751536A1
Title: METHOD FOR DETERMINING A HIGH-DENSITY PLATOONING DRIVING MANEUVER, APPARATUS, VEHICLE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
Abstract: The proposal concerns a method for determining a high-density platooning HDPL driving maneuver comprising the steps of selecting a HDPL closing maneuver (412), and a step of selecting a HDPL opening maneuver (414). Closing maneuver means a maneuver with which the inter-vehicle distance between platoon members is decreased. Opening maneuver means a maneuver with which the inter-vehicle distance between platoon members is increased. The proposal also concerns a step of testing the selected HDPL maneuvers in terms of energy consumption (416), thereby taking into account a predicted quality of service QoS of a vehicle-to-vehicle V2V communication link (PC5) for the communication between the platoon members (PV1 to PL). If said selected HDPL driving maneuvers do not fulfill the test criteria, the method comprises the steps of waiting a time and performing the steps of selecting a HDPL closing maneuver and HDPL opening maneuver and testing the newly chosen HDPL maneuver again.
IPC codes: B60W  30/    16            A I
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Claims: number: 1
text: Method for determining a high-density platooning driving maneuver comprising the steps of selecting a high-density platooning closing maneuver (412), selecting a high-density platooning opening maneuver (414), and testing the selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuvers with at least one test criterion, said test criterion comprising a test in terms of energy consumption (416), under consideration of a predicted quality of service profile of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication link (PC5) for the communication between the platoon members (PV1 to PL) and if said selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuvers do not fulfill the test criterion, waiting a time period and performing the steps of selecting a high-density platooning closing maneuver and selecting a high-density platooning opening maneuver anew, and testing the newly selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuver with said test criterion.
number: 2
text: Method according to claim 1, wherein at least a predicted quality of service profile for a packet inter-reception time of said vehicle-to-vehicle communication link (PC5) is considered in said test criterion.
number: 3
text: Method according to claim 2, wherein at least one maximum value γ<max> of the packet inter-reception time is selected for defining a limit of an acceptable quality of service level in said test criterion.
number: 4
text: Method according to claim 3, wherein a time value T<2>, where the predicted quality of service profile crosses the selected maximum value γ<max> is used to test the selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuvers.
number: 5
text: Method according to claim 4, wherein the time value T<2> is decreased by a time value ΔT<2> corresponding to the uncertainty for the quality of service prediction at the time value T<2>.
number: 6
text: Method according to claim 5, wherein the testing of the selected high-density platooning closing and opening maneuvers is made based on a comparison between
number: 7
text: Method according to claim 6, wherein the high-density platooning closing maneuver time value T<M1> is selected by taking the time value T<1> selected from the predicted quality of service profile under the criterion that the maximum useable value γ<max> of the packet inter-reception time is reached at the time value T<1>, where the sum of the high-density platooning closing maneuver time value T<M1> and its energy consumption compensation time value T<C1> should be minimized with the condition that the closing maneuver time value T<M1> is greater or equal to the time value T<1>.
number: 8
text: Method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein a Pareto efficient solution is applied for selecting the high-density platooning opening maneuver, in which the minimization of an opening maneuver time value T<M2> is favored compared to the minimization of the corresponding energy consumption compensation time value T<C2>.
number: 9
text: Apparatus comprising a processing device (40) which is adapted to perform the steps in the method according to any one of the previous claims.
number: 10
text: Vehicle comprising an apparatus according to claim 9.
number: 11
text: Computer program, comprising program code, which when run in a processing device (40) performs the steps in the method according to any one of the claims 1 to 8.
Office action: search_report, dated 2020-12-16
Rejection reasons: novelty_epc_54
inventive_step_epc_56
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ref_id: - Guillaume Jornod ET AL, "Packet Inter-Reception Time Modeling for High-Density Platooning in Varying Surrounding Traffic Density", doi:10.24355/dbbs.084-201904291019-0, (20190507), URL: https://publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbbs_derivate_00045321/PIR_Jornod.pdf, (20191118), XP055643384 [Y] 2-8 * the whole document *
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severity: obviousness
Final disposition: pending (2020-12-16)