System, transportation vehicle, network component, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and a network component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11454512-B2
Application number	US-202016784499-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 7, 2020
Priority date	Feb 13, 2019
Publication date	Sep 27, 2022
Grant date	Sep 27, 2022

Abstract

A system, a transportation vehicle, a network component, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and a network component. The method for a transportation vehicle and for verifying a proposed route includes determining an exceptional traffic situation based on an environmental model for the transportation vehicle and transmitting information related to the exceptional traffic situation to a network component using a mobile communication system. The method also includes receiving information related to a proposed route from a network component, and verifying the proposed route based on the environmental model of the transportation vehicle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus for a transportation vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
one or more interfaces to communicate in a mobile communication system;
a plurality of sensors configured to transmit data related to an environment of the transportation vehicle; and
a control module communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and configured to control the one or more interfaces, wherein the control module is configured to:
identify an exceptional traffic situation based on an environmental model of the transportation vehicle generated based on the data from the plurality of sensors indicative of the environment of the transportation vehicle,
determine a plurality of manipulated environmental models for the transportation vehicle, wherein each manipulated environmental model includes hypothetical amendments of the environmental model and a confidence level associated with the hypothetical amendments, and wherein the hypothetical amendments include at least one of an added object and a removed object,
transmit, to a network component using the mobile communication system, information related to the environmental model and the exceptional traffic situation,
receive, from the network component, information related to a proposed route and a modified environmental model providing a network perspective of the environmental model, adapt the environmental model based on the information related to the modified environmental model,
determine a plurality of route versions resolving the exceptional traffic situation based on the adapted environmental model, wherein each route version includes a corresponding confidence level that the route version resolves the exceptional traffic situation,
verify the proposed route, wherein the verification includes comparison of the proposed route based on the modified environmental model and each of the route versions based on the adapted environmental model, and performance of a consistency check on the proposed route and each of the route versions, wherein, in response to the proposed route corresponding to one of the route versions, a confidence level of the one of the route versions serves as a first confidence level of the proposed route, wherein the verification further includes determination of whether the proposed route resolves the exceptional traffic situation within at least one of the plurality of manipulated environmental models, wherein, in response to the proposed route resolving the exceptional traffic situation within the at least one manipulated environmental model, a confidence level of the at least one manipulated environmental model serves as a second confidence level of the proposed route, and
operate the transportation vehicle based on one of the proposed routes in response to each of the first confidence level and the second confidence level of the proposed route being greater than a first threshold.

2. A transportation vehicle comprising the apparatus of claim 1 .

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the receiving includes receiving information related to a network generated environmental model of the transportation vehicle from the network component, and wherein the verifying further comprises performing a consistency check on the network generated network environmental model and the environ mental model of the transportation vehicle.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller controls the apparatus to determine one or more route versions resolving the exceptional traffic situation based on the environmental model, wherein each route version is associated with a confidence level indicating a confidence that the route version solves the exceptional traffic situation, and wherein the verification includes comparing the information related to the proposed route to the one or more route versions.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the verification is determined to be successful in response to the confidence level associated with the route version and the confidence level corresponding to the proposed route being above a predefined second threshold.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the manipulated environmental model includes a manipulated environmental model list of manipulated objects, and wherein each manipulated object is associated with a corresponding confidence level of the manipulation of that manipulated object.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium including a computer program having a program code for performing a method for verification of a proposed route, when the computer program is executed on a computer, a processor, or a programmable hardware component, the method comprising:
identifying an exceptional traffic situation based on an environmental model of a transportation vehicle, wherein the environmental model is generated based on data from a plurality of sensors of the transportation vehicle indicative of an environment of the transportation vehicle;
determining a plurality of manipulated environmental models for the transportation vehicle, wherein each manipulated environmental model includes hypothetical amendments of the environmental model and a confidence level associated with the hypothetical amendments, and wherein the by amendments include at least one of an added object and a removed object;
transmitting, to a network component using a mobile communication system, information related to the environmental model and the exceptional traffic situation;
receiving, from the network component, information related to a proposed route and a modified environmental model providing a network perspective of the environmental model,
adapting the environmental model based on the information related to the modified environmental model,
determining a plurality of route versions resolving the exceptional traffic situation based on the adapted environmental model, wherein each route version includes a corresponding confidence level that the route version resolves the exceptional traffic situation;
verifying the proposed route by comparing the proposed route based on the modified environmental model and each of the route versions based on the adapted environmental model, performing a consistency check on the proposed route and each of the route versions, wherein, in response to the proposed route corresponding to one of the route versions, a confidence level of the one of the route versions serves as a first confidence level of the proposed route, and determining whether the proposed route resolves the exceptional traffic situation within at least one of the plurality of manipulated environmental models, wherein, in response to the proposed route resolving the exceptional traffic situation within the at least one manipulated environmental model, a confidence level of the at least one manipulated environmental model serves as a second confidence level of the proposed route; and
operating the transportation vehicle based on one of the proposed routes in response to each of the first confidence level and the second confidence level of the proposed route being greater than a first threshold.

8. A method for a transportation vehicle and for verifying a proposed route, the method comprising:
identifying an exceptional traffic situation based on an environmental model for a transportation vehicle, wherein the environmental model is generated based on data from a plurality of sensors of the transportation vehicle indicative of an environment of the transportation vehicle;
determining a plurality of manipulated environmental models for the transportation vehicle, wherein each manipulated environmental model includes hypothetical amendments of the environmental model and a confidence level associated with the hypothetical amendments, and wherein the hypothetic

Assignees

• Volkswagen Ag

Inventors

• Pfadler Andreas
• El Assaad Ahmad
• Reimann Daniel
• Jornod Guillaume

Classifications

• G06Q50/40

  Business processes related to the transportation industry (shipping G06Q10/083) · CPC title

• G08G1/096827

  where the route is computed onboard · CPC title

• G08G1/096844 Primary

  where the complete route is dynamically recomputed based on new data · CPC title

• G08G1/162

  event-triggered · CPC title

• G08G1/096833 Primary

  where different aspects are considered when computing the route · CPC title