Diagnosing and supplementing vehicle sensor data

• US 9,834,223 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2015
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Jammoussi, Hassene, Kumar, Pankaj, Makki, Imad Hassan
• Primary Examiner(s): ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE
• Application Number:
  US14/969,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20170166219A1
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• Field of Search: 701 291, 701 297, 701 298, 701 304, 701 334, 340459, 340438, 340439
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/046 involving external transmission of data to or from the vehicle, e.g. via telemetry, satellite, Global Positioning System [GPS]
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/045 Monitoring control system parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0116 from roadside infrastructure, e.g. beacons
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0125 Traffic data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/048 with provision for compensation of environmental or other condition, e.g. snow, vehicle stopped at detector
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle

Abstract

A system includes a processor programmed to receive a first data value from a first data collector as an input to operate a first vehicle. The processor is further programmed to determine to exclude the first data value as the input to operate the first vehicle. The computer is further programmed to receive a second data value from a second data collector as the input to operate the vehicle, the second data value being provided by a source remote to the first vehicle; and actuate a first vehicle component based in part on the second data value.

Claims

1. A system comprising a first computing device including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor such that the processor is programmed to:

receive a first data value from a first data collector in a first vehicle as an input to operate the first vehicle;

determine to exclude the first data value as the input to operate the first vehicle;

receive a second data value from a second data collector as the input to operate the first vehicle, the second data collector being remote to the first vehicle;

replace the first data value with the second data value and

actuate a first vehicle component based in part on the second data value.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data collector includes a first sensor in the first vehicle and the second data collector includes a second sensor remote to the first vehicle.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the second data collector is within a same geographic area as the first vehicle.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein determining to exclude the first data value as the input is based on a determination that the first data collector is non-operational.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein determining to exclude the first data value as the input is based on a determination that the first data value is outside of a predetermined range.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the second data value is received from at least one of a second vehicle within the same geographic area as the first vehicle and an infrastructure device within the same geographic area as the first vehicle.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one of the second vehicle and the infrastructure device includes the second data collector.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

identify at least one of a second vehicle within the same geographic area as the first vehicle and an infrastructure device within the same geographic area as the first vehicle; and

request the second data value from the at least one of the second vehicle and the infrastructure device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

receive at least a third data value respectively from at least a third data collector remote to the first vehicle, wherein determining to exclude the first data value as the input is based on a statistical analysis of the first, second and at least third data values.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein actuating the first vehicle component is further based at least in part on the third data value.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data collector is a first radio frequency receiver included in the first vehicle and the second data collector is a second radio frequency receiver included in the first vehicle and the processor is further programmed to:

determine that the first radio frequency receiver is non-operational; and

receive the second data value from the second radio frequency receiver.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

identify at least one of a second vehicle within the same geographic area as the first vehicle and an infrastructure device within the same geographic area as the first vehicle, the one of the second vehicle and the infrastructure device including a second computer programmed to communicate with the second radio frequency receiver; and

request the second data value from the second computer.

13. A system comprising a first computing device including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor such that the processor is programmed to:

receive a first data value of a parameter from a first sensor included in a first vehicle;

receive at least second and third data values of the parameter respectively from at least second and third sensors remote from the first vehicle; and

determine, based at least in part on a comparison of the first data value to the second and third values to exclude the first data value as the input to operate the first vehicle.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the second and third sensors are within the same geographic area as the first vehicle.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the second and third sensors is included in one of a second vehicle and an infrastructure device.

16. The system of claim 13, further comprising a second computer remote from the first vehicle, the second computer including a second processor and a second memory, the second memory storing instructions executable by the second processor such that the second processor is programmed to:

receive the second data value from the second sensor; and

transmit the second data value to the first computer, wherein the second sensor is remote from the second computer.

17. The system of claim 13, further comprising a second computer remote from the first vehicle, the second computer including a second processor and a second memory, the second memory storing instructions executable by the second processor such that the second processor is programmed to:

receive the second data value from the second sensor; and

transmit the second data value to the first computer, wherein the second computer is included in one of a second vehicle and an infrastructure device.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the second processor is further programmed to:

store the second value;

receive a request from the first computer to transmit the second value to the second computer; and

transmit the second value based at least in part on the request.

19. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computer in a first vehicle, a first data value from a first data collector included in the first vehicle as an input to operate a first vehicle;

determining to exclude the first data value as the input to operate the first vehicle;

receiving a second data value from a second data collector as the input to operate the vehicle, the second data collector being remote to the first vehicle;

replacing the first data value with the second data value; and

actuating a first vehicle component based in part on the second data value.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first data collector includes a first sensor included in the first vehicle and the second data collector includes a second sensor remote to the first vehicle.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

identifying at least one of a second vehicle within the same geographic area as the first vehicle and an infrastructure device within the same geographic area as the first vehicle; and

requesting the second data value from the at least one of the second vehicle and the infrastructure device.

22. The system of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving at least a third data value respectively from at least a third data collector remote to the first vehicle, wherein determining to exclude the first data value as the input is based on a statistical analysis of the first, second and at least third data values.