System and method for virtual transformation of standard or non-connected vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017200370-A1
Application number	US-201615076210-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 21, 2016
Priority date	Jan 8, 2016
Publication date	Jul 13, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

In various embodiments, the present disclosure includes a system for reducing vehicular collisions having: (a) a vehicle comprising sensors, an acceleration system, a braking system, a processor, and memory; and (b) programs operatively coupled to the vehicle including: (1) a marking program configured to mark an outside vehicle as V2X or standard; (2) a reaction program configured to generate a signal in response to the mark, the signal being based on the mark.

First claim

1 . A system for marking vehicles comprising:
a vehicle comprising sensors, an accelerator, brakes, a processor, and memory; a marking program configured to:
mark an outside vehicle as V2X or standard,
measure position of a marked standard vehicle,
assign a confidence to the measured position,
compare the confidence to a threshold,
transmit, based on the comparison, a supplemental position measurement request to an outside V2X vehicle.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the marking program is configured to:
receive the supplemental position measurement from the outside V2X vehicle, and update the confidence of the original measured position in light of the supplemental position measurement.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the marking program is configured to only transmit the request to V2X vehicles within a predetermined distance range of the standard vehicle.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the marking program is configured to identify V2X vehicles in the predetermined distance range with reference to previously downloaded properties of V2X vehicles.

5 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the marking program is configured to build a list of V2X vehicles within the predetermined distance range, then select only one vehicle from the list based on predetermined criteria.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the marking program is configured to select a plurality of V2X vehicles from the list, the selection number depending on the kind of property to be measured of the standard vehicle.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the marking program is configured to measure velocity of a marked standard vehicle based on a plurality of individual measurements and to assign a confidence to the measured velocity based a confidence of each of the plurality of individual measurements.

8 . The system of claim 1 , comprising a reaction program configured to transmit electronic instructions to a V2X vehicle and to only send visual cues to a standard vehicle, the electronic instructions and the visual cues based on a comparison of properties of the vehicle versus properties of the sensed vehicle.

9 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a planning program configured to build a traffic database by downloading driving properties of V2X vehicles and standard vehicles from V2X vehicles.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the planning program is configured to generate a traffic plan that includes vehicle braking rates for avoiding a traffic collision.

11 . A method of marking vehicles using a vehicle having sensors, an accelerator, brakes, a processor, and memory, comprising:
with a marking program running on the processor:
marking an outside vehicle as V2X or standard,
measuring position of a marked standard vehicle,
assigning a confidence to the measured position,
comparing the confidence to a threshold,
transmitting, based on the comparison, a supplemental position measurement request to an outside V2X vehicle.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the marking program is configured to:
receive the supplemental position measurement from the outside V2X vehicle, and update the confidence of the original measured position in light of the supplemental position measurement.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the marking program is configured to only transmit the request to V2X vehicles within a predetermined distance range of the standard vehicle.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the marking program is configured to identify V2X vehicles in the predetermined distance range with reference to previously downloaded properties of V2X vehicles.

15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the marking program is configured to build a list of V2X vehicles within the predetermined distance range, then select only one vehicle from the list based on predetermined criteria.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the marking program is configured to select a plurality of V2X vehicles from the list, the selection number depending on the kind of property to be measured of the standard vehicle.

17 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the marking program is configured to measure velocity of a marked standard vehicle based on a plurality of individual measurements and to assign a confidence to the measured velocity based a confidence of each of the plurality of individual measurements.

18 . The method of claim 11 , comprising:
executing a reaction program configured to transmit electronic instructions to a V2X vehicle and to only send visual cues to a standard vehicle, the electronic instructions and the visual cues based on a comparison of properties of the vehicle versus properties of the sensed vehicle.

19 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
executing a planning program configured to build a traffic database by downloading driving properties of V2X vehicles and standard vehicles from V2X vehicles.

20 . The method of claim 19 , wherein the planning program is configured to generate a traffic plan that includes vehicle braking rates for avoiding a traffic collision.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Miller Kenneth James
• Miller Charles James
• Neubecker Cynthia M
• Ignaczak Brad Alan
• Siddiqui Adil Nizam
• Diedrich Jonathan
• Gupta Somak Datta
• Abdel-Raziq Haron

Classifications

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• G08G1/166

  for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes · CPC title

• G05D1/0066

  for limitation of acceleration or stress · CPC title

• G08G1/20

  Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles · CPC title

• G08G1/162 Primary

  event-triggered · CPC title