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

• US 10,529,235 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2018
• Issued: 01/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Miller, Kenneth James, Miller, Charles James, Neubecker, Cynthia M., Ignaczak, Brad Alan, Siddiqui, Adil Nizam, Diedrich, Jonathan, Gupta, Somak Datta, Abdel-Raziq, Haron
• Primary Examiner(s): Whittington, Jess
• Application Number:
  US16/024,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20180308361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 557 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0022 characterised by the communication link data switching networks in general H04L12/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0066 for limitation of acceleration or stress
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

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.

Claims

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 one of either 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; and

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.

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 measured position in light of the supplemental position measurement.

3. 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.

4. A system for marking vehicles comprising:

a vehicle comprising a dedicated short range communication (DSRC) transceiver;

a marking program configured to;

mark an outside vehicle as one of either V2X or standard,

measure position of a marked standard vehicle,

assign a confidence to the measured position,

compare the confidence to a threshold,

transmit, via the DSRC transceiver, a supplemental position measurement request to an outside V2X vehicle based on the comparison; and

a planning program configured to build a traffic database by downloading driving properties of V2X vehicles and standard vehicles from V2X vehicles.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the planning program is configured to generate a traffic plan that includes vehicle braking rates for avoiding a traffic collision.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the marking program is configured to:

receive the supplemental position measurement from the outside V2X vehicle, and update the confidence of the measured position in light of the supplemental position measurement.

7. The system of claim 4, 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. A method of marking vehicles using a vehicle having a dedicated short range communication (DSRC) transceiver, 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; and

executing a reaction program 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 method of claim 8, further including, with the marking program:

receiving the supplemental position measurement from the outside V2X vehicle, and updating the confidence of the measured position in light of the supplemental position measurement.

10. The method of claim 8, further including, with the marking program, transmitting the request only to V2X vehicles within a predetermined distance range of the standard vehicle.

11. The method of claim 10, further including, with the marking program, identifying V2X vehicles in the predetermined distance range with reference to previously downloaded properties of V2X vehicles.

12. The method of claim 10, further including, with the marking program, building a list of V2X vehicles within the predetermined distance range, then select only one vehicle from the list based on predetermined criteria.

13. The method of claim 12, further including, with the marking program, selecting a plurality of V2X vehicles from the list, the selection number depending on the kind of property to be measured of the standard vehicle.

14. The method of claim 8, further including, with the marking program, measuring velocity of a marked standard vehicle based on a plurality of individual measurements and assigning a confidence to the measured velocity based a confidence of each of the plurality of individual measurements.