METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN A PARKING FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20170303190A1
• Filed: 03/28/2017
• Published: 10/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Koch, Florian, Hess, Felix, Rafique, Muhammad Irfan
• Application Number:
  US15/471,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20170303190A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/08 Reselecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/322 by location data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A method for communicating between a parking facility management system of a parking facility and a motor vehicle driving in a driverless fashion within the parking facility, the parking facility including multiple spatially distributed base stations, based on a present position of the motor vehicle within the parking facility and on a digital map of the parking facility, which includes the positions of the multiple base stations, a base station being selected from the multiple base stations to which the motor vehicle is to change next from a present base station of the multiple base stations to which the motor vehicle is presently connected, to connect itself to the selected base station in order to communicate with the parking facility management system. A corresponding device, a motor vehicle, a parking facility management system, and a computer program are also described.

Claims

1. A method for communicating between a parking facility management system of a parking facility and a motor vehicle driving in a driverless fashion within the parking facility, the parking facility including multiple spatially distributed base stations, the method comprising:

selecting, based on a present position of the motor vehicle within the parking facility and on a digital map of the parking facility which includes the positions of the multiple base stations, a base station from the multiple base stations, to which the motor vehicle is to change next from a present base station of the multiple base stations to which the motor vehicle is presently connected, to connect itself to the selected base station, in order to communicate with the parking facility management system.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein a change instruction that the motor vehicle is to change from the present base station to the selected base station is transmitted via a communication network to the motor vehicle.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the selection is carried out as a function of a destination position located within the parking facility, to which the motor vehicle is to drive.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the selection is carried out as a function of a setpoint trajectory to be followed by the motor vehicle.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the selection is carried out as a function of a present motor vehicle velocity.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the digital map includes areas around the base stations, which have different reception conditions with respect to at least one of a latency and a data rate, the selection being carried out as a function of the different reception conditions.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the selection is carried out as a function of one condition that the motor vehicle always has to have a direct line-of-sight to one base station of the multiple base stations.

8. A device for communicating between a parking facility management system of a parking facility and a motor vehicle driving in a driverless fashion within the parking facility, the parking facility including multiple spatially distributed base stations, the device comprising:

a memory in which a digital map of the parking facility is stored, the digital map including the positions of the multiple base stations; and

a processor which is designed to, based on a present position of the motor vehicle within the parking facility and on the digital map of the parking facility, select a base station from the multiple base stations to which the motor vehicle is to change next from a present base station of the multiple base stations, to which the motor vehicle is presently connected, to connect itself to the selected base station, in order to communicate with the parking facility management system.

9. A motor vehicle, including a device for communicating between a parking facility management system of a parking facility and a motor vehicle driving in a driverless fashion within the parking facility, the parking facility including multiple spatially distributed base stations, the device comprising:

a memory in which a digital map of the parking facility is stored, the digital map including the positions of the multiple base stations; and

a processor which is designed to, based on a present position of the motor vehicle within the parking facility and on the digital map of the parking facility, select a base station from the multiple base stations to which the motor vehicle is to change next from a present base station of the multiple base stations, to which the motor vehicle is presently connected, to connect itself to the selected base station, in order to communicate with the parking facility management system.

10. A parking facility management system, including a device for communicating between a parking facility management system of a parking facility and a motor vehicle driving in a driverless fashion within the parking facility, the parking facility including multiple spatially distributed base stations, the device comprising:

a memory in which a digital map of the parking facility is stored, the digital map including the positions of the multiple base stations; and

a processor which is designed to, based on a present position of the motor vehicle within the parking facility and on the digital map of the parking facility, select a base station from the multiple base stations to which the motor vehicle is to change next from a present base station of the multiple base stations, to which the motor vehicle is presently connected, to connect itself to the selected base station, in order to communicate with the parking facility management system.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program for communicating between a parking facility management system of a parking facility and a motor vehicle driving in a driverless fashion within the parking facility, the parking facility including multiple spatially distributed base stations, the computer program, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform:

selecting, based on a present position of the motor vehicle within the parking facility and on a digital map of the parking facility which includes the positions of the multiple base stations, a base station from the multiple base stations, to which the motor vehicle is to change next from a present base station of the multiple base stations to which the motor vehicle is presently connected, to connect itself to the selected base station, in order to communicate with the parking facility management system.