VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20160278153A1
• Filed: 03/17/2016
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Sung Un
• Granted Patent: US 10,644,399 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/34 by electrical means active lenses or reflecting arrays H01Q3/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A vehicle includes: a wireless communication device transmitting a radio signal into a surrounding area of the vehicle through beamforming and receiving sensor information, in return, from at least one other vehicle that receives the radio signal; a generator generating surrounding condition information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle based on the received sensor information; and an indicator indicating the surrounding condition information.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

a wireless communication device transmitting a radio signal into a surrounding area of the vehicle through beamforming and receiving sensor information, in return, from at least one other vehicle that receives the radio signal;

a generator generating surrounding condition information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle based on the received sensor information; and

an indicator indicating the surrounding condition information.

2. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication device transmits the radio signal based on a gap set according to a predetermined beam width.

3. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication device transmits the radio signal by dividing time intervals based on a gap set according to a predetermined beam width.

4. The vehicle of claim 2, wherein the wireless communication device receives a response signal from the at least one other vehicle which has received the radio signal and is located in the surrounding area of the vehicle.

5. The vehicle of claim 4, wherein the generator determines a direction of transmitting a radio signal corresponding to the received response signal and determines position information of the at least one other vehicle based on the determined transmission direction.

6. The vehicle of claim 5, wherein the generator generates the surrounding condition information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle based on the determined position information of the at least one other vehicle and the received sensor information.

7. A vehicle comprising:

a wireless communication device receiving position information and sensor information from at least one other vehicle located in a surrounding area of the vehicle through Device-to-Device (D2D) communication;

a generator generating surrounding condition information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle based on the received position information and sensor information and generating sensor information of the vehicle; and

an indicator indicating the surrounding condition information.

8. The vehicle of claim 7, further comprising:

a position measuring device measuring position information of the vehicle.

9. The vehicle of claim 8, wherein the generator determines position information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle by comparing the position information of the vehicle measured by the position measuring device and the received position information of the at least one other vehicle and generates surrounding condition information by combining the sensor information of the vehicle and the sensor information of the at least one other vehicle with the position information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle.

10. The vehicle of claim 7, further comprising:

a sensor unit calculating position information and speed information of the at least one other vehicle located in the surrounding area of the vehicle.

11. The vehicle of claim 10, wherein the sensor unit measures relative position information and relative speed information of the at least one other vehicle located in the surrounding area of the vehicle, calculates position information of the at least one other vehicle based on the measured relative position information of the at least one other vehicle and position information of the vehicle, and calculates speed information of the at least one other vehicle based on the measured relative speed information of the at least one other vehicle and speed information of the vehicle.

12. The vehicle of claim 11, further comprising:

an identifying unit identifying the at least one other vehicle based on the position information and speed information calculated by the sensor unit and the position information and speed information received through the wireless communication device.

13. The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the identifying unit identifies the at least one other vehicle by comparing the position information calculated by the sensor unit and the position information received through the wireless communication unit and by comparing the speed information calculated by the sensor unit and the speed information received through the wireless communication device.

14. The vehicle of claim 13, wherein the generator generates the surrounding condition information by combining a result of the identification of the at least one other vehicle and the received sensor information.

15. A method for controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:

transmitting a radio signal into a surrounding area of the vehicle through beamforming;

receiving sensor information, in return, from at least one other vehicle that receives the radio signal;

generating surrounding condition information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle based on the received sensor information; and

indicating the surrounding condition information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the transmitting of the radio signal comprises:

transmitting the radio signal based on a gap set according to a predetermined beam width.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the transmitting of the radio signal comprises:

transmitting the radio signal by dividing time intervals based on a gap set according to a predetermined beam width.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the receiving of sensor information from the at least one other vehicle comprises:

receiving a response signal from the at least one other vehicle which has received the radio signal and is located in the surrounding area of the vehicle.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the generating of surrounding condition information comprises:

determining a direction of transmitting a radio signal corresponding to the received response signal; and

determining position information of the at least one other vehicle based on the determined transmission direction.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the generating of surrounding condition information comprises:

generating surrounding condition information regarding the surrounding area of the vehicle based on the determined position information of the at least one other vehicle and the received sensor information.