Management of mobile objects

• US 10,168,424 B1
• Filed: 12/27/2017
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Akiyama, Kazuhito, Furuichi, Sanehiro, Yamamoto, Gaku
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewandroski, Sara J
• Application Number:
  US15/855,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20180372856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/006 on road vehicles, e.g. automobiles or trucks testing of ignition installations peculiar to internal combustion engines F02P17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/06 Systems determining position data of a target
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/74 Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systems; Analogous systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 15/46 Indirect determination of position data
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2015/465 by Trilateration, i.e. two transducers determine separately the distance to a target, whereby with the knowledge of the baseline length, i.e. the distance between the transducers, the position data of the target is determined
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2637 Vehicle, car, auto, wheelchair
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0237 based on parallel systems, e.g. comparing signals produced at the same time by same type systems and detect faulty ones by noticing differences among their responses
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• 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

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may acquire, by a first acquiring section, measurement data obtained by a first mobile object measuring the first mobile object, using a sensor of the first mobile object. The embodiment may acquire, by a second section, data obtained by a second mobile object detecting the first mobile object in response to a request from outside, using a sensor of the second mobile object. The embodiment may verify, by a verifying section, a validity of the measurement data using the detection data.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a first acquiring section operable to acquire measurement data obtained by a first mobile object measuring the first mobile object, using a sensor of the first mobile object;

a second acquiring section operable to acquire detection data obtained by a second mobile object detecting the first mobile object in response to a request from outside, using a sensor of the second mobile object;

a first transmitting section of the first mobile object operable to transmit the measurement data and the request to the second mobile object;

the first mobile object includes a first data transmitting section operable to transmit the verification result to a mobile object server;

the second mobile object includes the first acquiring section, the second acquiring section, and a verifying section, the verifying section is operable to, in response to the first acquiring section acquiring the measurement data and the request, verify the validity of the measurement data using the detection data acquired by the second acquiring section, and the second mobile object further includes a verification result transmitting section operable to transmit a verification result of the verifying section to the first mobile object, wherein the verification result transmitting section may be operable to include a signature of the second mobile object in the verification result of the verifying section and transmit the verification result including the signature to the first mobile object, the second mobile object includes a second data transmitting section operable to transmit the detection data acquired by the second acquiring section to the mobile object server; and

the mobile object server operable to assist with movement of a plurality of mobile objects including the first mobile object and the second mobile object, the mobile object server includes a reliability judging section operable to judge the reliability of the first mobile object based on one or more of the verification results obtained by verifying the measurement data of the first mobile object, wherein the mobile object server includes a mobile object determining section operable to determine a mobile object for which the reliability is to be judged, and the first mobile object is operable to transmit the measurement data and the request to the second mobile object, in response to instructions from the mobile object determining section; and

the verifying section operable to verify validity of the measurement data using the detection data.