| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a control system for travel in a platoon (1), the platoon comprising a lead vehicle (L) and one or more following vehicles (F1, F2, . . . , Fi-1, Fi, . . . , Fn) automatically following the lead vehicle, the lead vehicle controlling the movement of the following vehicles, each of the following vehicles and the lead vehicle comprising communication means (10, 12), wherein the control system comprises a common time base, which allows a control command proposing an action to be communicated from the lead vehicle (L) to at least one of the following vehicles (F1, F2, . . . , Fi-1, Fi, . . . , Fn) in advance of a control point (tc). The invention further relates to the use of a common time base in a platoon and to a method to control travelling in a platoon. |
| 主权项 |
1. A control system for travel in a platoon, said platoon comprising a lead vehicle and one or more following vehicles automatically following the lead vehicle, said lead vehicle controlling the movement of said following vehicles, each of said following vehicles and said lead vehicle comprising communication means, wherein said control system comprising a common time base, wherein a control command is communicated from said lead vehicle to at least one of said one or more following vehicles in advance of a control point of time, the control command entails an action to be executed by the one or more following vehicles at the control point in time, the common time base is based on time signals from an external clock where the time signals are received by the lead vehicle and the one or more following vehicles simultaneously, wherein if the time signals from the external clock cannot be received, then the common time base is based on a last time signal received from the external clock. |
