Method, device and system for automatically fueling vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019023557-A1
Application number	US-201816035669-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 15, 2018
Priority date	Jul 21, 2017
Publication date	Jan 24, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present application provides a method, device and system for automatically fueling a vehicle. The method includes: determining fuel amount to be filled according to the information of vehicle status and the driving route of the vehicle; assigning a fueling device which conforms to a preset position rule to the vehicle according to the current position of the vehicle and the preset position rule; sending a feedback message carrying position information of the fueling device to the vehicle, so that the vehicle drives to the fueling device indicated by a position of the fueling device; and sending information of the fuel amount to be filled and the information of the identifier of the vehicle to the fueling device so that the fueling device offers fuel to the vehicle indicated by the identifier of the vehicle according to the information of the fuel amount to be filled.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for automatically fueling a vehicle, comprising:
receiving, by a fueling management system, a fueling request from the vehicle, wherein the fueling request comprises information of an identifier of the vehicle and information of vehicle status; determining a current position of the vehicle and a driving route of the vehicle; determining fuel amount to be filled according to the information of vehicle status and the driving route of the vehicle; assigning a fueling device which conforms to a preset position rule to the vehicle according to the current position of the vehicle and the preset position rule; sending a feedback message carrying position information of the fueling device to the vehicle, so that the vehicle drives to the fueling device indicated by a position of the fueling device; and sending information of the fuel amount to be filled and the information of the identifier of the vehicle to the fueling device, so that the fueling device offers fuel according to the information of the fuel amount to be filled to the vehicle indicated by the identifier of the vehicle.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the current position of the vehicle comprises:
determining the current position of the vehicle according to a signal fed back from a GPS positioning tracker on the vehicle; or sending a position request message to the vehicle, and receiving information of the current position of the vehicle fed back from the vehicle.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the driving route of the vehicle comprises:
judging whether the current position of the vehicle is included on a prestored historical driving route of the vehicle according to the identifier and the current position of the vehicle; when the current position of the vehicle is included on the prestored driving route, if the current position of the vehicle is at one of two ends of the prestored driving route, determining the prestored driving route as the obtained driving route; if the current position of the vehicle is not at one of two ends of the prestored driving route, determining a line between the current position of the vehicle and an end of the prestored driving route in a driving direction of the vehicle as the obtained driving route according to the driving direction of the vehicle; and when the current position of the vehicle is not included on the prestored driving route, sending a request of obtaining the driving route to the vehicle and receiving information of the driving route fed back by the vehicle.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the information of vehicle status at least comprises:
information of average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers, current weight and filled fuel amount of the vehicle; then determining the fuel amount to be filled comprises: determining a distance length of the driving route; determining the required fuel amount according to a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle and the distance length of the driving route; and determining the fuel amount to be filled according to the determined required fuel amount and the filled fuel amount of the vehicle.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , further comprising: determining current driving time of the vehicle;
then, determining the required fuel amount comprises: determining the required fuel amount according to a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the distance length of the driving route and the driving time.

6 . The method according to claim 4 , further comprising: obtaining information of weather condition; then
determining the required fuel amount comprises: determining the required fuel amount according to a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the distance length of the driving route and the weather condition.

7 . The method according to claim 4 , further comprising: obtaining information of roadway condition of the driving route, which comprises at least one of: roadway speed limit information, roadway traffic control information, roadway closure information, roadway congestion information; then
determining the required fuel amount comprises: determining the required fuel amount according to a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the distance length of the driving route and the roadway condition of the driving route.

8 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein the information of vehicle status further comprises:
information of deadweight of the vehicle; then determining the required fuel amount comprises: determining the required fuel amount according to a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the deadweight of the vehicle and the distance length of the driving route.

9 . The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
determining actual fuel consumption after each fueling in a preset update cycle; comparing the required fuel amount determined each time with the actual fuel consumption; and updating the function relationship for determining the required fuel amount according to a comparison result.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein assigning the fueling device to the vehicle comprises:
obtaining prestored position of each of at least one fueling device, and assigning the fueling device which conforms to the preset position rule to the vehicle; the preset position rule comprises: a fueling device closest to the current position of the vehicle; a random fueling device in the at least one fueling device of which a distance from the current position of the vehicle is less than a preset distance; or a fueling device of a pre-determined operator closest to the current position of the vehicle.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
obtaining dynamic operation condition information of each of the at least one fueling device, wherein the dynamic operation condition information comprises a fueling queue length of the fueling device; then assigning the fueling device to the vehicle comprises: assigning a fueling device which conforms to the preset position rule and of which the fueling queue length is less than a preset fueling queue length to the vehicle.

12 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the identifier of the vehicle comprises: a vehicle identification code of the vehicle and/or a vehicle identifier assigned by the fueling management system to the vehicle.

13 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining payment information corresponding to the fuel amount to be filled; and sending a message comprising the payment information to the vehicle.

14 . A method for automatically fueling a vehicle, comprising:
determining, by a fueling control device in the vehicle, whether the vehicle needs to be filled with fuel; obtaining information of vehicle status of the vehicle when determining that the vehicle needs to be filled with fuel; sending a fueling request to a fueling management system, wherein the fueling request comprises information of an identifier of the vehicle and the information of vehicle status; receiving a feedback message from the fueling management system, wherein the feedback message comprises information of

Assignees

• TuSimple

Inventors

• Wu Nan

Classifications

• G06Q30/06

  Buying, selling or leasing transactions · CPC title

• B67D7/08

  Arrangements of devices for controlling, indicating, metering or registering quantity or price of liquid transferred (arrangement of flow- or pressure-control valves B67D7/36; computing, calculating, counting G06; coin-freed apparatus for dispensing fluids G07F13/00; prepayment devices for metering liquids G07F15/00) · CPC title

• G08G1/202

  Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching · CPC title

• G01C21/3469 Primary

  Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects · CPC title

• B67D2007/0446

  measuring physical properties of the fluid to be dispensed · CPC title