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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Uros Kalabic, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Tianshu Chu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for direct and indirect control of mixed-autonomy vehicles receives a traffic state of a group of mixed-autonomy vehicles traveling in the same direction, wherein the group of mixed-autonomy vehicles includes controlled vehicles willing to participate in a platoon formation and at least one uncontrolled vehicle, and wherein the traffic state is indicative of a state of each vehicle in the group, submit the traffic state into a parameterized function trained to transform the traffic state into target headways for the mixed-autonomy vehicles to produce the target headways, and submit the target headways to a headway-based model configured to map the target headways to target speeds of the mixed-autonomy vehicles to produce the target speeds. The system determines and transmits control commands to the controlled vehicle based on one or combination of the target headways and the target speeds.