US 12,469,393 B2
Platooning formation pattern proposal method, platooning formation pattern proposal device, and platooning formation pattern proposal system
Makiko Hanzaki, Kariya (JP); Hajime Nomura, Kariya (JP); and Kei Okada, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/339,295.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-103583 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0419840 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G08G 1/22 (2013.01) [G06F 21/6218 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A platooning formation pattern proposal method for proposing a formation pattern of platooning when a plurality of vehicles perform the platooning, the method comprising:
collecting information related to the formation pattern;
extracting, as an index factor, information in a predetermined index from the collected information, the predetermined index including at least two indexes;
calculating a score of each of the at least two indexes as an index score based on the extracted index factor;
proposing, as a recommendation formation pattern, the formation pattern for which the index score has been calculated, when the calculated index score satisfies a predetermined condition;
granting a person having provided a predetermined value a predetermined right;
causing the person having provided the predetermined value to select a most important index from among the at least two indexes;
granting the person a right for selecting a weight of the selected most important index as the predetermined right; and
controlling, with a vehicle controller, traveling of at least one of the plurality of vehicles based on the proposed recommendation formation pattern that has been approved by a user of the plurality of vehicles.