Method for transmitting, receiving and processing data values, and a transmission device and receiving device

• US 10,591,913 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2016
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Knorr, Moritz Michael, Geraldy, Alexander, Skupin, Christian, Zaum, Daniel, Cakar, Emre, Homann, Hanno, Mielenz, Holger, Hinterleitner, Isabella, Marx, Jochen, Klejnowski, Lukas, Langenberg, Markus, Pagel, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Dager, Jonathan M
• Application Number:
  US15/377,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20170168484A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,190 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/023 for transmission of signals between vehicle parts or subsystems
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9316 combined with communication equipment with other vehicles or with base stations
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93271 in the front of the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93272 in the back of the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0061 for transition from automatic pilot to manual pilot and vice versa
• 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

A method for transmitting, receiving and processing data values, including detecting first data values, which represent at least one first transition from an automated operation of at least one first automated vehicle to a manual operation of the at least one first automated vehicle. The method also includes transmitting the first data values, receiving the first data values and a step of processing the first data values, and a transmission device and a receiving device for carrying out the method for transmitting, receiving and processing data values.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting, receiving and processing data values, the method comprising:

detecting first data values, which represent at least one first transition of an automated operation of at least one first automated vehicle to a manual operation of the at least one first automated vehicle, so that there is a detected transition;

transmitting, via a transmitting device, the first data values;

receiving, via a receiving device, the first data values; and

processing, via a processor, the first data values;

wherein surroundings of the automated vehicle are localized to the detected transition and added to the first data values of the detected transition,

wherein the at least one first transition of at least one vehicle operating system, which operates the at least one first automated vehicle in an automated manner, is initiated,

wherein received first data values are processed with the receiving device, so that the transition, which has been transmitted with the aid of the first data values, is analyzed and evaluated, and entered into a map,

wherein the map is stored in a format, which enables another vehicle to retrieve and use the map, and

wherein the first data values include localization data, which represent a localization of the at least one first automated vehicle during the at least one first transition, wherein the first data values and the localization data represent a detected transition, and

wherein the map includes the detected transition for use by the another vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the initiation of the at least one first transition by the vehicle operating system occurs as a function of the surroundings of the at least one first automated vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein second data values are detected, which represent at least one second transition from a manual operation of the at least one first automated vehicle to an automated operation of the at least one first automated vehicle.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second data values include localization data, which represent a localization of the at least one first automated vehicle during the at least one second transition.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the first data values and/or the second data values are processed so that third data values are calculated, which include an evaluation of the first data values with respect to the at least one first transition and/or an evaluation of the second data values with respect to the at least one second transition.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first data values and/or the second data values and/or the third data values are inserted in at least one digital map.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first data values and/or the second data values and/or the third data values and/or the at least one digital map is transmitted to at least one second automated vehicle and/or retrieved by the at least one second vehicle.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data values and/or the second data values are transmitted directly, with a data value transmission link, and/or indirectly, with a car-2-car connection via at least one third vehicle and/or with a data evaluation transmission medium.

9. A transmission device for transmitting data values, comprising:

a transmission device configured to perform the following;

detecting first data values, which represent at least one first transition from an automated operation of at least one first automated vehicle to a manual operation of the at least one first automated vehicle, so that there is a detected transition; and

transmitting the first data values;

wherein surroundings of the automated vehicle are localized to the detected transition and added to the first data values of the detected transition,

wherein the at least one first transition of at least one vehicle operating system, which operates the at least one first automated vehicle in an automated manner, is initiated,

wherein received first data values are processed with a processor, so that the transition, which has been transmitted with the aid of the first data values, is analyzed and evaluated, and entered into a map, and

wherein the map is stored in a format, which enables another vehicle to retrieve and use the map, and

wherein the first data values include localization data, which represent a localization of the at least one first automated vehicle during the at least one first transition, and

wherein the map includes the detected transition for use by the another vehicle.

10. The transmission device of claim 9, wherein when the at least one first transition is detected when this transition is initiated by a vehicle operating system, the at least one first automated vehicle is operated in an automated manner, and wherein the at least one first transition is detected when this transition takes place by the vehicle operating system as a function of the surroundings of the at least one first automated vehicle.

11. The transmission device of claim 9, wherein second data values are detected, which represent a second transition from a manual operation of the at least one first automated vehicle to an automated operation of the at least one first automated vehicle.

12. The transmission device of claim 10, wherein the first data values are detected so that these first data values include localization data, which represent a localization of the at least one first automated vehicle during the at least one first transition, and/or the second data values are detected so that these second data values include localization data, which represent a localization of the at least one first automated vehicle during the at least one second transition.

13. The transmission device of claim 10, wherein the first data values and/or the second data values are transmitted directly, with the aid of a satellite connection and/or a mobile radio connection and/or a car-2-car connection and/or another data value transmission link, and wherein the transmission occurs indirectly via at least one additional transmission device and at least one additional receiving device, with the aid of a car-2-car connection via at least one third vehicle and/or with the aid of a data values transmission medium.

14. A receiving device for receiving and processing data values, comprising:

a receiving device configured to perform the following;

receiving first data values, which represent at least one first transition from an automated operation of at least one first automated vehicle to a manual operation of the at least one first automated vehicle, and/or second data values, which represent at least one second transition from a manual operation of the at least one first automated vehicle to an automated operation of the at least one first automated vehicle; and

processing the first data values and/or the second data values;

wherein surroundings of the automated vehicle are localized to a detected transition and added to the first data values of the detected transition,

wherein the at least one first transition of at least one vehicle operating system, which operates the at least one first automated vehicle in an automated manner, is initiated,

wherein received first data values are processed with the receiving device, so that the transition, which has been transmitted with the aid of the first data values, is analyzed and evaluated, and entered into a map, and

wherein the map is stored in a format, which enables another vehicle to retrieve and use the map, and

wherein the first data values include localization data, which represent a localization of the at least one first automated vehicle during the at least one first transition, and

wherein the map includes the detected transition for use by the another vehicle.

15. The receiving device of claim 14, wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

the first data values and/or the second data values are processed with a twelfth arrangement so that third data values are calculated, which include an evaluation of the first data values with respect to the at least one first transition and/or second data values with respect to the at least one second transition, and

the first data values and/or the second data values and/or the third data values are inserted into at least one digital map.

16. The receiving device of claim 15, wherein the processing takes place so that the first data values and/or the second data values and/or the third data values and/or the at least one digital map are transmitted to at least one second automated vehicle and/or are retrieved by the at least one second automated vehicle.