US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Oct. 20 for "Vehicle control for simplified autonomous drive" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,170, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Vehicle control for simplified autonomous drive" was invented by Kristoffer Tagesson (Hammaro, Sweden) and Jan-Inge Svensson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for autonomous drive of a heavy-duty vehicle, comprising an autonomous drive, AD, controller configured with a trajectory tracking function arranged to track a desired vehicle trajectory is provided. A first vehicle model models a response by the vehicle to a requested steering angle. The AD controller generates a steering angle request based on the desired vehicle...