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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2018
Peloton Technology, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Todd Christopher Klaus, San Jose, CA (US);
Colleen Kelly Twitty, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen Michael Erlien, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Connelly Kegelman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles A. Price, Los Altos, CA (US);
Austin Bennett Schuh, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brian Jeremy Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joshua Philip Switkes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Controllers, control architectures, systems and methods are described for controlling a host vehicle's participation in a platoon. Described vehicle platooning control systems may include a platoon controller and a vehicle interface controller. The platoon controller is configured to determine torque and braking requests for at least partially automatically controlling the host vehicle to platoon with a platoon partner. The vehicle interface controller manages communications between the platoon controller and one or more host vehicle control units. The vehicle interface controller may also include a safety monitor including one or more safety monitoring algorithms In some embodiments, the vehicle interface controller is at least ASIL-C compliant, whereas the platoon controller and an optional gateway processor may be QM rated under ISO 26262. The platoon controller may be configured as a listener capable of receiving but not transmitting messages on the host vehicle's control related communication bus(es).