System and method for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles

• US 10,109,193 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Song, Yoo Seung, Yun, Hyun Jeong
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US15/050,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20170193822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Abstract

Disclosed is a technology for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles. A system for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles includes a setting unit configured to set a transmission time interval and a transmission power of a safety message, a message type determination unit configured to analyze a safety message received, and determine whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message, a reception state determination unit configured to determine a reception state of the safety message transmitted from the message type determination unit, and a control unit configured to generate a new transmission time interval and a new transmission power for safety message transmission based on a value of the reception state determined by the reception state determination unit, and transmit the generated new transmission time interval and new transmission power to the setting unit.

Claims

1. A system for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles, the system comprising:

a setting unit configured to set a transmission time interval and a transmission power of a safety message;

a message type determination unit configured to analyze a safety message received, and determine whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message;

a reception state determination unit configured to determine a reception state of the safety message transmitted from the message type determination unit; and

a control unit configured to generate a new transmission time interval and a new transmission power for safety message transmission based on a value of the reception state determined by the reception state determination unit, and transmit the generated new transmission time interval and new transmission power to the setting unit,

wherein the reception state determination unit determines the reception state of the safety message transmitted from the message type determination unit by calculating a mean reception time difference based on the safety message currently received and previously received safety messages.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the message type determination unit stores safety message type information, and determines whether the received safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message by comparing the received safety message with the safety message type information.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the message type determination unit, upon determining that the received safety message is an emergency safety message, transmits the received safety message to the reception state determination unit.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the message type determination unit, transmitting the received safety message to the reception state determination unit, determines whether a counting for initializing a transmission time interval and a transmission power of the safety message is in progress, and if the counting is not in progress, starts the counting.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein if the message type determination unit, upon determining that the received safety message is a general safety message, determining whether a count value of a counting for initializing a transmission time interval and a transmission power of a safety message exceeds a preset time, and if the count value exceeds the preset time, transmits an initialization signal to the setting unit.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the reception state determination unit determines the reception state of the safety message transmitted from the message type determination unit, and if the reception state is determined to be not good, transmits the value of the reception state to the control unit.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the reception state determination unit calculates the mean reception time difference based on the safety message currently received and previously received safety messages, compares the mean reception time difference with a threshold value, and if the mean reception time difference exceeds the threshold value, determines that the reception state is not good.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the control unit generates the new transmission power as a maximum between a value obtained by reducing a predetermined level from a previous transmission power and a minimum value within a preset range of transmission power.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the control unit generates the new transmission time interval as a minimum between a value obtained by multiplying a previous transmission time interval by a predetermined number and a maximum value within a preset range of transmission time interval.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a transmission unit configured to transmit the safety message,

wherein the setting unit sets the transmission unit such that the transmission unit transmits the safety message based on the new transmission time interval and the new transmission power.

11. A method for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles, the method comprising:

receiving a safety message transmitted from outside;

determining whether the received safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message by analyzing the received safety message;

determining a reception state of the received safety message if it is determined that the received safety message is an emergency safety message as a result of the determining of whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message;

generating a new transmission time interval and a new transmission power for safety message transmission if it is determined that the reception state of the received safety message is not good as a result of the determining of the reception state; and

transmitting a safety message based on the new transmission time interval and the new transmission power,

wherein in the determining of the reception state of the received safety message, calculating a mean reception time difference based on the received safety message and previously received safety messages.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein in the determining of whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message, the received safety message is compared with pre-stored safety message type information, so that the received safety message is determined to be a general safety message or an emergency safety message.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising, if it is determined that the received safety message is an emergency safety message as a result of the determining of whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message, determining whether a counting for initializing a transmission time interval and a transmission power of a safety message is in progress, and if the counting is not in progress, starting the counting.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising, if it is determined that the received safety message is a general safety message as a result of the determining of whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message, determining whether a count value of a counting for initializing a transmission time interval and a transmission power of a safety message exceeds a preset time, and if the count value exceeds the preset time, initializing the transmission time interval and the transmission power of the safety message.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein in the determining of the reception state of the received safety message, the mean reception time difference is calculated based on the received safety message and previously received safety messages, the mean reception time difference is compared with a threshold value, and if the mean reception time exceeds the threshold value, the reception state is determined to be not good.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein in the generating of the new transmission time interval and the new transmission power for safety message transmission, the new transmission power is generated as a maximum between a value obtained by reducing a predetermined level from a previous transmission power and a minimum value within a preset range of transmission power.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein in the generating of the new transmission time interval and the new transmission power for safety message transmission, the new transmission time interval is generated as a minimum between a value obtained by multiplying a previous transmission time interval by a predetermined number and a maximum value within a preset range of transmission time interval.