A vehicle communication interface communicate with multiple platooning vehicles and receives sensor signals transmitted from a rear vehicle; commands the rear vehicle to turn around; and outputs control signals to the platooning vehicles to travel in a reverse direction according to the sensor signals received from the rear vehicle. The sensor signals may be from forward-facing ultrasound, LIDAR or RADAR sensors or a camera of the rear vehicle, which may be more sophisticated than its rear-facing sensors. Alternatively control of the platoon may be transferred to the rear vehicle during reversing.
Platooning autonomous vehicle navigation sensory exchange
2018-05-09
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Platooning autonomous vehicle navigation sensory exchange
European Patent Office | 2018
|PLATOONING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE NAVIGATION SENSORY EXCHANGE
European Patent Office | 2018
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