Auto-parking system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017129484-A1
Application number	US-201514973707-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 17, 2015
Priority date	Nov 9, 2015
Publication date	May 11, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an auto-parking system. The system includes a data acquiring unit, a center-processing unit, and a vehicle control unit, wherein the data acquiring unit and the center-processing unit may be provided in a parking lot, the vehicle control unit may be provided in the vehicle, the center-processing unit may be communicationally connected with the data acquiring unit in a wired way, and the center-processing unit may be communicationally connected with the vehicle control unit in a wireless way. The auto-parking system provided by the present disclosure may reduce the parking cost for the user of the vehicle, since it is necessary for each vehicle to only install a vehicle control unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An auto-parking system, comprising: a data acquiring unit, a center-processing unit, and a vehicle control unit,
wherein the data acquiring unit and the center-processing unit are provided in a parking lot, the vehicle control unit is provided in the vehicle, the center-processing unit is communicationally connected with the data acquiring unit in a wired way, and the center-processing unit is communicationally connected with the vehicle control unit in a wireless way.

2 . The auto-parking system according to claim 1 , wherein the wired way is a wired Ethernet way, and the wireless way comprises mobile wireless communication or Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communication way.

3 . The auto-parking system according to claim 1 , wherein the data acquiring unit is configured to acquire environment data of vehicle's surroundings and transmit the environment data to the center-processing unit,
the vehicle control unit is configured to transmit a parking request to the center-processing unit and control the vehicle according to a received control instruction, and the center-processing unit is configured to receive the parking request and the environment data, and generate control instructions according to the environment data and transmit the control instructions to the vehicle control unit.

4 . The auto-parking system according to claim 3 , wherein the data acquiring unit further comprises a switch and at least one sensor module,
the switch is connected with the sensor module and the center-processing unit via Ethernet communication, the sensor module is configured to acquire environment data of the vehicle's surroundings and transmit the environment data to the switch, and the switch is configured to transmit the environment data to the center-processing unit.

5 . The auto-parking system according to claim 3 , wherein the center-processing unit further comprises a first wireless receiving module, a data merging module, a data analyzing module, and a control instruction module, and a first wireless transmitting module,
the data merging module is connected with the first wireless receiving module and the data analyzing module respectively, the control instruction module is connected with the data analyzing module and the first wireless transmitting module respectively, the first wireless receiving module and the first wireless transmitting module is connected with the vehicle control unit via wireless communication respectively, and the data merging module is connected with the data acquiring unit via wired communication, the first wireless receiving module is configured to receive a parking request and transmit the parking request to the data merging module, the data merging module is configured to receive the parking request and the environment data, and perform merging processing on the environment data to obtain whole-position data, and transmit the whole position data to the data analyzing module, the data analyzing module is configured to perform analysis on the whole-position data to obtain an analysis result data, and transmit the analysis result data to the control instruction module, the control instruction module is configured to generate a control instruction according to the analysis result data and transmit the control instruction to the first wireless transmitting module, and the first wireless transmitting module is configured to transmit the control instruction to the vehicle control unit.

6 . The auto-parking system according to claim 3 , wherein the vehicle control unit comprises a second wireless transmitting module, a second wireless receiving module, a control instruction distributing module, and at least one control method performing modules,
the control instruction distributing module is connected with the second wireless receiving module and the control method performing module respectively, and the second wireless receiving module and the second wireless transmitting module is connected with the center-processing unit via wireless communication respectively, the second wireless transmitting module is configured to transmit the parking request to the center-processing unit, the second wireless receiving module is configured to receive the control instruction and transmit the control instruction to the control instruction distributing module, the control instruction distributing module is configured to perform analysis on the control instruction to obtain the control method, and transmit the control method to a corresponding control method performing module, and the control method performing module is configured to control the vehicle according to the received control method.

7 . The auto-parking system according to claim 3 , wherein the environment data comprises position data of the vehicle, data of number of unoccupied parking places, data of distance between vehicle and surroundings and/or data of traffic marks.

8 . The auto-parking system according to claim 7 , wherein the data of traffic marks comprises data of boarder-line of parking place and/or data of indication for turning left or right.

9 . The auto-parking system according to claim 3 , wherein the control instruction comprises a going-forward instruction, a going-backward instruction, a turning-left instruction, and a turning-right instruction, a turning-angle of steering-wheel instruction, and/or a vehicle speed instruction.

10 . The auto-parking system according to claim 6 , wherein control methods comprises controlling gear-changer to change to reverse gear, controlling the turning light to be turned on or off, and/or controlling the steering-wheel to change steering angle.

11 . The auto-parking system according to claim 4 , wherein the sensor module comprises radar and/or a camera.

12 . The auto-parking system according to claim 6 , wherein control method performing module is an Electronic Control Unit (ECU).

Assignees

• Leauto Intelligent Tech (Beijing) Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Wenrui
• Xu Yong
• Zou Yu
• Chen Kunsheng
• Lin Wei
• Liu Peng
• Li Dan
• Gou Xiaofei

Classifications

• G08G1/04

  using optical or ultrasonic detectors · CPC title

• B60W30/06 Primary

  Automatic manoeuvring for parking · CPC title

• H04W84/22

  with access to wired networks · CPC title

• B62D15/0285

  Parking performed automatically · CPC title

• G08G1/0129

  for creating historical data or processing based on historical data · CPC title