REDUCED NETWORK FLOW AND COMPUTATIONAL LOAD USING A SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABLE SCHEDULER

• US 20150285642A1
• Filed: 04/02/2014
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Tseng, Fling, Yang, Hsin-hsiang, Prakah-Asante, Kwaku O., Makki, Imad Hassan, Filev, Dimitar Petrov, `Treharne, William David
• Granted Patent: US 9,377,314 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance

Abstract

A vehicle includes a navigation system and a processing device. The navigation system is configured to identify a current location of the vehicle, a destination location, and a distance between the current location and the destination location. The processing device is configured to identify a task, associate the task to the destination location, and schedule the task according to the distance from the destination location.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

a navigation system configured to identify a current location of the vehicle, a destination location, and a distance between the current location and the destination location; and

a processing device programmed to identify a task, associate the task to the destination location, and schedule the task to occur at a predetermined frequency associated with the distance to the destination location.

4. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the predetermined frequency increases as the distance to the destination location decreases.

5. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the task includes sampling a sensor signal.

6. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the task includes communicating with a remote server.

7. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the task includes operating the vehicle in an autonomous mode.

8. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the task is scheduled in accordance with a speed of the vehicle.

2. (canceled)

3. (canceled)

9. A vehicle system comprising:

a processing device configured to identify a task, associate the task to a destination location, and schedule the task to occur at a predetermined frequency according to a distance between a current location of a vehicle and the destination location.

12. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the predetermined frequency increases as the distance to the destination location decreases.

13. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the task includes sampling a sensor signal.

14. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the task includes communicating with a remote server.

15. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the task includes operating the vehicle in an autonomous mode.

16. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the task is scheduled in accordance with a speed of the vehicle.

10. (canceled)

11. (canceled)

17. A method comprising:

identifying a current location of a vehicle;

identifying a destination location of the vehicle;

calculating a distance between the current location and the destination location;

identifying a task; and

scheduling the task to occur at a predetermined frequency according to the distance from the destination location.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the predetermined frequency increases as the distance to the destination location decreases.

18. (canceled)

19. (canceled)