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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
May. 10, 2012
Upali Priyantha Mudalige, Oakland Township, MI (US);
Ragunathan Rajkumar, Monroeville, PA (US);
Seyed Reza Azimi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Gaurav Bhatia, Seven Fields, PA (US);
Upali Priyantha Mudalige, Oakland Township, MI (US);
Ragunathan Rajkumar, Monroeville, PA (US);
Seyed Reza Azimi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Gaurav Bhatia, Seven Fields, PA (US);
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for efficiently and continuously allowing vehicles to travel through an intersection. The method includes broadcasting a synchronization signal to all vehicles that will be entering the intersection and broadcasting an intersection flow time to all of the vehicles that will be entering the intersection that identifies which travel lanes travel in what direction. The method also includes identifying an arrival synchronization pattern for all of the vehicles that will be entering the intersection and controlling a speed of the vehicles traveling through the intersection and a time for the vehicles entering the intersection so that vehicles traveling in perpendicular or cross directions to the intersection will simultaneously travel through the intersection without colliding with each other.