Method and communication system for data reception in wireless vehicle-to-surroundings communication

• US 9,800,492 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Sthlin, Ulrich, Menzel, Marc, Scherping, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Truc M
• Application Number:
  US14/232,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20140140353A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,943 Days
• Field of Search: 701 1, 701 41, 701 70, 701117, 701119, 701300
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0043 Signal treatments, identification of variables or parameters, parameter estimation or state estimation
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/65 Data transmitted between vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/3065 for real time traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/42 Centralised routing
• 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: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A communication system of a vehicle receives data in wireless vehicle-to-surroundings. The communication system includes multiple control devices. A receiving control device receives data from objects located in the surroundings of the vehicle, and a communication stack is processed during reception. In order for the data to be expediently and effectively acquired, the received data is sorted into at least two classes of relevance and is further processed in the communication stack according to the class of relevance.

Claims

1. A method for data reception in wireless vehicle-to-surroundings communication in a communication system (1) of a vehicle (F) with a plurality of control devices (2, 3, 4, 18), the method comprising:

receiving, by a receiving control device (2), data from objects (O) in an area surrounding the vehicle (F);

during the receiving, processing a communication stack;

sorting, by the receiving control device (2), the received data into at least two different classes of relevance, the relevance classification being performed in the receiving control device (2) without multiple transmission and reception between an object and the vehicle;

further processing the communication stack depending on the class of relevance from the sorting step; and

based on the further processing and the class of relevance, controlling action of a driver assistance and/or safety system of the vehicle.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the further processing of the received data takes place on different control devices.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the received data are allocated to different applications according to the class of relevance.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a distance between the object (O) and the vehicle (F) is allocated to the received data of the object (O) and the sorting of the received data from the objects in the area surrounding the vehicle into the classes of relevance is carried out on the basis of the distance.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a time-to-collision is allocated to the received data of the object (O) and the sorting of the received data from the objects in the area surrounding the vehicle into the classes of relevance is carried out on the basis of the time-to-collision.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sorting of the received data of the objects (O) in the area surrounding the vehicle is carried out on the basis of overlap with a coverage area of one or more environment sensors of the vehicle (F).

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a priority is allocated in each case to a class of relevance and the further processing in the communication stack is dependent on this allocated priority.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein quality of the received data is improved on the basis of data of a different object (O) or of a sensor.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising carrying out a dynamic prediction of an object (O) participating in the vehicle-to-surroundings communication.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising determining, from the data of an object (O), a trajectory of the object (O) and extrapolating this trajectory.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data of the objects (O) in the area surrounding the vehicle are combined into groups (G).

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein a group (G) is represented by the object (O) with the lowest time-to-collision and/or with the shortest distance to the vehicle (F).

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein three classes of relevance are formed.

14. A communication system for data reception in wireless vehicle-to-surroundings communication between individual communication participants, the communication system (1) being provided in a vehicle (F) and comprising:

a plurality of different control devices (2, 3, 4, 18); and

a plurality of computing units each associated with respective one of the plurality of different control devices,

wherein the computing units of the control devices (2, 3, 4, 18) are configured to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program code, which, when executed on a computing unit of a control device of a vehicle, causes the control device to carry out the method as claimed claim 1.

16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controlled action of a driver assistance and/or safety system of the vehicle comprises instigation of automatic braking of the vehicle.