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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2022
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Yashar Zeiynali Farid, Berkeley, CA (US);
Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A system for maintaining a range of a gap between an ego vehicle and a preceding vehicle can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a calculations module and an actuation module. The calculations module can cause the processor to determine a time, during a deceleration phase or an acceleration phase of a stop-and-go cycle of the preceding vehicle, when a preceding vehicle speed will equal a desired speed of the ego vehicle. The calculations module can cause the processor to determine: (1) in response to the time being during the deceleration phase, that the gap will be smaller than a desired maximum gap or (2) in response to the time being during the acceleration phase, that the gap will be larger than a desired minimum gap. The actuation module can cause the processor to change an ego vehicle speed to correct the gap.