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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2022
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Oakland, CA (US);

Yashar Zeiynali Farid, Berkeley, CA (US);

Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/01 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/0141 (2013.01); B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); G05B 13/0265 (2013.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G08G 1/0116 (2013.01); G08G 1/0133 (2013.01); G08G 1/0145 (2013.01); G08G 1/096708 (2013.01); G08G 1/096725 (2013.01); G08G 1/096775 (2013.01); G08G 1/096783 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02); B60W 2552/10 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02);
Abstract

Systems and methods described herein relate to traffic-flow regulation via centralized lateral flow control. One embodiment receives, at a locality manager that regulates traffic flow on a roadway via lateral flow control, aggregated macroscopic traffic state information from a section manager that communicates with one or more connected vehicles in a section of the roadway; processes the aggregated macroscopic traffic state information at the locality manager using a reinforcement-learning-based model to determine target lateral flows for two or more lanes of the roadway in the section of the roadway; and transmits the target lateral flows from the locality manager to the section manager, which converts the target lateral flows to lane-change actions and transmits the lane-change actions to the one or more connected vehicles.


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