Communication device, communication system and associated communication method

• US 9,959,753 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2015
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Jeng, An-Kai, Chao, Yung-Cheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Small, Naomi J
• Application Number:
  US14/944,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20170061789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 340905
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/10 related to vehicle motion
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/091 Traffic information broadcasting broadcasting communication H04H
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• 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 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A communication device, a communication and associated communication method are provided. The communication device is placed at a first moving device and the communication device includes a movement detection module, a transmitter, and a controller. The movement detecting module detects movement of the first moving device to obtain at least one first movement parameter at a first time point, and detects the movement of the first moving device to obtain at least one second movement parameter at a second time point latter than the first time point. The transmitter transmits the at least one first movement parameter. By estimating position of the first moving device at the second time point, the controller obtains an estimated internal movement parameter. The controller controls the transmitter to transmit the at least one second movement parameter selectively according to the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter.

Claims

1. A communication method, applied between a first communication device and a second communication device, comprising:

transmitting at least one first movement parameter, wherein a first moving device is equipped with the first communication device and the first communication device detects a movement of the first moving device at a first time point to obtain the at least one first movement parameter;

receiving and storing the at least one first movement parameter by the second communication device of a second moving device;

transmitting at least one second movement parameter to the second communication device selectively according to whether or not, a difference between an estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than a predefined threshold wherein the first communication device estimates a position of the first moving device at a second time point based on at least one estimating function and the at least one first movement parameter and accordingly obtains the estimated internal movement parameter, detects the movement of the first moving device at the second time point to obtain the at least one second movement parameter, and the second time point is later than the first time point; and

obtaining the movement of the first moving device according to either the at least one second movement parameter or an estimated external movement parameter by the second communication device, wherein the second communication device estimates the position of the first moving device at the second time point based on the at least one estimating function and the at least one first movement parameter and accordingly obtains the estimated external movement parameter.

2. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the estimated external movement parameter and the estimated internal movement parameter are consistent.

3. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter are a combination of one or more of a longitude parameter, a latitude parameter, a velocity parameter, an acceleration parameter, a direction angle parameter, or a yaw rate parameter.

4. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the at least one second movement parameter to the second communication device selectively according to whether the difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than the predefined threshold further comprises steps of:

determining an updating condition as satisfied when the difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than the predefined threshold; and

determining the updating condition as unsatisfied when the difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is smaller than or equivalent to the predefined threshold.

5. The communication method according to claim 4, wherein the first communication device stores and transmits the at least one second movement parameter when the updating condition is satisfied.

6. The communication method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing the at least one first movement parameter as at least one external movement parameter corresponding to the first communication device by the second communication device; and

receiving the at least one second movement parameter and accordingly updating the at least one external movement parameter by the second communication device.

7. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein

the first communication device transmits a setting selection of the at least one estimating function to the second communication device and the at least one estimating function is stored by the second communication device in advance, or

the first communication device transmits the at least one estimating function to the second communication device.

8. The communication method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining an effective interval by the first communication device, wherein the effective interval represents a duration that the at least one estimating function is effective;

transmitting the effective interval by the first communication device; and

receiving the effective interval by the second communication device, wherein the second communication device stops using the at least one estimating function to estimate the position of the first moving device after the effective interval.

9. The communication method according to claim 1, further comprising:

synthesizing a first movement notification with the at least one first movement parameter by the first communication device, wherein the first movement notification represents the movement of the first moving device at the first time point; and

transmitting the synthesized first movement notification by the first communication device.

10. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the first communication device stores the first time point, and the step of transmitting the at least one second movement parameter to the second communication device selectively according to whether or not the difference between the estimated internal parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than the predefined threshold further comprises steps of:

calculating the time difference between the second time point and the first time point;

transmitting the at least one second movement parameter to the second communication device by the first communication device when the time difference is greater than a transmission interval; and

detecting the movement of the first moving device by the first communication device when the time difference is smaller than or equivalent to the transmission interval.

11. A communication system, comprising:

a first communication device, placed at a first moving device, configured to detect a movement of the first moving device at a first time point to obtain at least one first movement parameter, detect the movement of the first moving device at a second time point to obtain at least one second movement parameter, and transmit the at least one second movement parameter selectively according to whether or not a difference between an estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than a predefined threshold, wherein the first communication device estimates a position of the first moving device at the second time point based on the at least one estimating function and the at least one first movement parameter and accordingly obtains the estimated internal movement parameter, wherein the second time point is later than the first time point; and

a second communication device of a second moving device, configured to receive and store the at least one first movement parameter, and obtain the movement of the first moving device at the second time point according to either the at least one second movement parameter or an estimated external movement parameter, wherein the second communication device estimates the position of the first moving device at the second time point based on at least one estimating function and the at least one first movement parameter and accordingly obtains the estimated external movement parameter.

12. The communication system according to claim 11, wherein the estimated external movement parameter and the estimated internal movement parameter are consistent.

13. The communication system according to claim 11, wherein the second communication device stores the at least one first movement parameter as at least one external movement parameter corresponding to the first communication device, receives the at least one second movement parameter, and accordingly updates the at least one external movement parameter.

14. The communication system according to claim 13, wherein

when the difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than the predefined threshold, the first communication device synthesizes a second movement notification with the at least one second movement parameter and transmits the synthesized second movement notification, the second movement notification representing the movement of the first moving device at the second time point;

and

when the difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is smaller than or equivalent to the predefined threshold, the first communication device transmits the second movement notification.

15. A communication device placed at a first moving device, comprising:

a movement detecting module, configured to detect a movement of the first moving device to obtain at least one first movement parameter at a first time point, and detect the movement of the first moving device to obtain at least one second movement parameter at a second time point, wherein the second time point is later than the first time point;

a transmitter, configured to transmit the at least one first movement parameter; and

a controller, configured to estimate a position of the first moving device at the second time point based on at least one first estimating function and the at least one first movement parameter, and accordingly obtain an estimated internal movement parameter, wherein the controller controls the transmitter to transmit the at least one second movement parameter selectively according to whether or not a difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than a predefined threshold,

wherein the transmitted at least one first movement parameter and the transmitted at least one second movement parameter are received by another communication device of a second moving device to estimate the position of the first moving device and obtain the movement of the first moving device at the second time point.

16. The communication device according to claim 15, wherein when the difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is greater than a predefined threshold, the controller controls the transmitter to transmit the at least one second movement parameter;

and

when the difference between the estimated internal movement parameter and the at least one second movement parameter is smaller than or equivalent to the predefined threshold, the controller controls the transmitter not to transmit the at least one second movement parameter.

17. The communication device according to claim 15, further comprising:

a storage device, configures to store the at least one first movement parameter, wherein the storage device further stores the at least one second movement parameter when the controller controls the transmitter to transmit the at least one second movement parameter.

18. The communication device according to claim 15, further comprising

a receiver, configures to receive at least one third movement parameter corresponding to the second moving device, wherein the controller estimates a position of the second moving device based on at least one second estimating function and the at least one third movement parameter.

19. The communication device according to claim 18, wherein the communication device receives a setting selection of the at least one second estimating function and the at least one second estimating function is stored in the communication device in advance or the communication device receives the at least one second estimating function.