US 12,367,767 B2
Platooning control apparatus and method thereof
Hyung Mook Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/845,289.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0156941 (KR), filed on Nov. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0154326 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/096791 (2013.01) [G08G 1/22 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A platooning control apparatus, comprising:
a communication device provided in a vehicle that is platooning and configured to transmit and receive platooning information and information about a risk of rollover of the vehicle due to a crosswind with at least one other vehicle in a string of vehicles or an external server; and
a processor configured to perform formation control for preventing at least one of the vehicle or the other vehicles in the string from rollover such that the vehicle is located in a direction where the crosswind blows with respect to another vehicle determined as having the highest risk of rollover among the other vehicles in the string to platoon and prevent the crosswind applied to the other vehicle;
wherein the processor is further configured to:
determine whether the vehicle and the other vehicles reach a rollover critical point based on a weight applied to each wheel of the vehicle and the other vehicles; and
perform formation control such that the vehicle is located in a direction where an other vehicle that reaches the rollover critical point overturns due to the crosswind with respect to the other vehicle which reaches the rollover critical point among the other vehicles in the string to platoon and blocks the other vehicle from rollover.