Detecting an abnormal driving condition

• US 8,788,115 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2013
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hu, Guoqiang, Mei, Li Jun, Yang, Bo, Yuan, Yu, Cheng, Xin Hao
• Primary Examiner(s): ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE
• Application Number:
  US13/969,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20140039718A1
• Time in Patent Office: 340 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/46, 701/47, 701/90, 701/29.1, 701/424, 340/426.16, 340/438, 340/439
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/10 using Doppler effect
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes

Abstract

A method of detecting an abnormal driving includes receiving a RF signal transmitted from a vehicle in front; performing digital down conversion on the RF signal to obtain a baseband digital signal; performing frequency shift detection on the baseband digital signal to obtain frequency shift between the received RF signal and the RF signal transmitted from the vehicle in front; and determining that the abnormal driving condition in front exists response to determining that the frequency shift has reached a set threshold.

Claims

1. An apparatus for detecting an abnormal driving condition, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving module configured to receive, by a first vehicle, an RF signal transmitted from a second vehicle located in front of the first vehicle;

a digital down conversion module configured to perform digital down conversion on the RF signal to obtain a baseband digital signal;

a frequency shift detection module configured to perform frequency shift detection on the baseband digital signal to obtain a frequency shift between the received RF signal and the RF signal transmitted from the second vehicle;

a frequency comparison module configured to determine whether the frequency shift reaches a set threshold; and

a determining module configured to determine the abnormal driving condition of the second vehicle exists responsive to determining that the frequency shift has reached the set threshold.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frequency shift detection module comprises:

a sample point obtaining module configured to obtain adjacent first sample point and second sample point of the baseband digital signal;

a complex vector representing module configured to represent the first sample point as a first complex vector and to represent the second sample point as a second complex vector;

a phase difference computing module configured to compute phase difference between the first complex vector and the second complex vector;

a frequency shift computing module configured to compute frequency shift between the received RF signal and the RF signal transmitted from the vehicle in front based on the phase difference.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frequency shift detection module comprises:

a sample point obtaining module configured to obtain a plurality of continuous sample points of the baseband digital signal;

a complex vector representing module configured to represent the plurality of continuous sample points as complex vectors;

a phase difference computing module configured to compute phase differences between complex vectors corresponding to adjacent sample points in the plurality of continuous sample points;

an average phase difference obtaining module configured to perform weighted averaging on the phase differences to obtain average phase difference;

a frequency shift computing module configured to compute frequency shift between the received RF signal and the RF signal transmitted from the second vehicle based on the average phase difference.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frequency shift detection module comprises:

a sample point obtaining module configured to obtain sample points of the baseband digital signal;

a time frequency transformation module configured to perform time frequency transformation on the sample points of the baseband digital signal to obtain a set of amplitudes corresponding to a set of frequency points;

an amplitude comparison module configured to compare the amplitudes with a preset valid amplitude;

a frequency point filtering module configured to filter out frequency points corresponding to amplitudes which are greater than the valid amplitude;

a frequency difference computing module configured to compute frequency differences for each of the filtered-out frequency points between the filtered-out frequency points and a reference modulation frequency of the baseband digital signal, and to select a largest frequency difference as the frequency shift.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a low pass filtering module configured to perform low pass filtering on the baseband digital signal before performing frequency shift detection on the baseband digital signal.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a transmitting module configured to transmit another RF signal to a third vehicle at behind the first vehicle via a directional antenna.