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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
Applicants:
Volkswagen Ag, Wolfsburg, DE;
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Inventors:
Florian Neukart, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gabriele Compostella, Munich, DE;
Christian Seidel, Munich, DE;
David Von Dollen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignees:
Volkswagen AG, , DE;
Audi AG, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G08G 1/0968 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/0145 (2013.01); G01C 21/34 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/0133 (2013.01); G08G 1/096741 (2013.01); G08G 1/096888 (2013.01);
Abstract
A traffic flux maximization method and system to control traffic flow by combining classical computing machine learning to predict traffic flux minimization before its occurrence, with quantum annealing to optimize future positions of vehicles. Vehicles are redirected to minimize the travel time for each vehicle, taking into account other vehicles in the road network.