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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2017
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Henrik Engdahl, Erlangen, DE;
Juergen Francke, Berlin, DE;
Frank Gerstenberg, Berlin, DE;
Oliver Graebner, Neubiberg, DE;
Michael Lehmann, Erlangen, DE;
Goeran Saenger, Berlin, DE;
Florian Buehs, Berlin, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A vehicle control facility for the automated control of an electrical road vehicle for a route system with an energy-supply system that includes a lane-bound energy supply line, in particular an overhead line system. A position-determining unit determines a geographical position of the electrical road vehicle. A specific-lane-determining unit determines position data for a specific lane assigned to the lane-bound energy supply line. A communication interface transmits current relative positions of infrastructure features with respect to the electrical road vehicle to an external central specific-lane-determining facility and receives position data. A vehicle-control unit controls the electrical road vehicle with respect to the determined specific lane in dependence on the determined relative position of the specific lane.