US 12,118,880 B2
Systems and methods for coordinated vehicle lane assignment
Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Oakland, MI (US); Yashar Zeiynali Farid, Berkeley, CA (US); and Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US)
Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,265.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/270,329, filed on Oct. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0131614 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. 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)
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)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for coordinated vehicle lane assignment, the system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
receive from a locality manager target lateral flows for two or more lanes of a roadway in a section of the roadway that includes one or more connected vehicles;
convert the target lateral flows to a target number of connected vehicles N;
select for lane change a set of N connected vehicles whose ranked distances from a following vehicle in a target lane are greatest among the one or more connected vehicles in the section of the roadway, when a direction of lane change is uniform among the set of N connected vehicles;
transmit lane-change actions to the set of N connected vehicles; and
control at least one connected vehicle in the set of N connected vehicles in performing a lane-change action, of the lane-change actions.