Method and system for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle

• US 10,332,392 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Streamax Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Streamax Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Niu, Xuheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Sample, Jonathan L
• Application Number:
  US15/325,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20180144625A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,440 Days
• Field of Search: 701 93
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2031/0091 Speed limiters or speed cutters
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 31/18 including a device to audibly, visibly, or otherwise signal the existence of unusual or unintended speed to the driver of the vehicle devices primarily intended for indicating speed to other traffic B60Q1/54
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/803 in devices of the type to be classified in G01P3/66
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for segmentally limiting the speed of a vehicle. The method comprises: receiving characteristic parameters of a route sent by a vehicle monitoring platform, and respectively expanding a plurality of road segments of the route into a plurality of rectangles; dividing the plurality of rectangles into blocks sequentially; calculating a minimum enclosing rectangle of the at least two rectangles, and counting vertex information of the minimum enclosing rectangle of each block so as to establish a hash table; obtaining an instant longitude and latitude of a moving vehicle, searching in the hash table so as to determine a block where the vehicle is located, and judging a road segment where the vehicle is currently located; and comparing a current speed of the vehicle with a limiting speed of the road segment where the vehicle is currently located, judging whether the vehicle exceeds the limiting speed.

Claims

1. A method for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle, implemented by a vehicular terminal located in the vehicle, comprising:

receiving characteristic parameters of a route sent by a vehicle monitoring platform, and respectively expanding a plurality of road segments of the route into a plurality of rectangles according to the characteristic parameters of the route;

dividing the plurality of rectangles into blocks sequentially, wherein each block comprises at least two rectangles, calculating a minimum enclosing rectangle of the at least two rectangles, and establishing a hash table, wherein the hash table comprises vertex information of the minimum enclosing rectangle of each block, and the hash table and block information are stored in a storage predetermined by the vehicular terminal;

obtaining an instant longitude and latitude of a moving vehicle, searching in the hash table according to the instant longitude and latitude so as to determine a block where the vehicle is located, and judging a road segment where the vehicle is currently located; and

comparing a current speed of the vehicle with a limiting speed of the road segment where the vehicle is currently located, judging whether the vehicle exceeds the limiting speed;

if yes, uploading excessive speed information and the instant longitude and latitude of the vehicle to the vehicle monitoring platform;

wherein the step of judging a road segment where the vehicle is currently located comprises;

using the instant longitude and latitude as an origin of coordinate and establishing a rectangular coordinate system, and calculating a quadrant where each of vertexes in each rectangle is located respectively, wherein the rectangle is in the block where the vehicle is currently located;

selecting a rectangle from the block where the vehicle is currently located, accessing each of the vertexes of the rectangle according to a neighbor sequence, recording quadrant changes in each group of adjacent vertexes in the rectangle, and obtaining an arc length change in each group of adjacent vertexes by searching in the hash table according to the quadrant changes, and calculating an arc length algebraic sum corresponding to the rectangle according to the arc length change in each group of adjacent vertexes;

determining a positional relationship between the instant longitude and latitude of the vehicle and the rectangle according to the arc length algebraic sum; and

using the aforesaid method to traverse all rectangles in the blocks where the vehicle is currently located, and determining the road segment where the vehicle is currently located.

2. The method for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the step of receiving characteristic parameters of a route sent by a vehicle monitoring platform, and expanding a plurality of road segments of the route into a plurality of rectangles respectively according to the characteristic parameters of the route specifically comprises:

receiving characteristic parameters of the route sent by the vehicle monitoring platform, and adding index value for each of the road segments of the route and road inflection points in each of the road segments, wherein each of the road segments comprises a start inflection point and an end inflection point; and

obtaining longitude and latitude of the start inflection point and the end inflection point and a road width of each of the road segments from the characteristic parameters of the route according to the index value, and expanding each of the road segments into a rectangle respectively according to the longitude and latitude of the start inflection point and the end inflection point and the road width of each of the road segments.

3. The method for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the minimum enclosing rectangle of the at least two rectangles specifically comprises:

calculating longitude and latitude of a topmost vertex, a bottommost vertex, a leftmost vertex, and a rightmost vertex of each of the at least two rectangles, and obtaining the minimum enclosing rectangle of the at least two rectangles according to the longitude and latitude information of the topmost vertex, the bottommost vertex, the leftmost vertex, and the rightmost vertex.

4. The method for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle according to claim 1, wherein characteristic documents generated after dividing of the rectangles are stored in the storage;

when the vehicle is operating, initializing vehicle information in a memory firstly by the vehicular terminal, and loading the hash list from the storage; and

then when the block where the vehicle is located is found according to the hash list, loading the block information where the vehicle is currently located and block information of two blocks adjacent to the block where the vehicle is currently located from the storage into the memory, and ensuring that the memory stores data of three blocks subsequently and continuously; and

updating data of three blocks in the memory simultaneously when the block where the vehicle is currently located has been changed.

5. A system for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle, applied for measuring speed of vehicles in real time, comprising:

an expanded rectangle calculating module configured for receiving characteristic parameters of a route sent by a vehicle monitoring platform, and expanding a plurality of road segments of the route into a plurality of rectangles respectively according to the characteristic parameters of the route;

a hash table establishing module configured for dividing the plurality of rectangles into blocks sequentially, wherein each block comprises at least two rectangles, and calculating a minimum enclosing rectangle of the at least two rectangles, and establishing a hash table, wherein the hash table comprises vertex information of the minimum enclosing rectangle of each block;

a current road segment calculating module configured for obtaining an instant longitude and latitude of a moving vehicle, searching in the hash table according to the instant longitude and latitude so as to determine a block where the vehicle is currently located, and determining a road segment where the vehicle is currently located; and

an excessive speed judging module configured for comparing a current speed of the vehicle with a limiting speed of the road segment where the vehicle is currently located, judging whether the vehicle exceeds the limiting speed, and uploading excessive speed information and the instant longitude and latitude of the vehicle to the vehicle monitoring platform if the vehicle exceeds the speed limit;

wherein the current road segment calculating module comprises;

a coordinate system establishing unit configured for using the instant longitude and latitude as an origin of coordinate and establishing a rectangular coordinate system, and calculating a quadrant where each of vertexes in each rectangle is located respectively, wherein the rectangle is in the block where the vehicle is currently located;

an arc algebraic sum calculating unit configured for selecting a rectangle from the block where the vehicle is currently located, accessing each of the vertexes of the rectangle according to a neighbor sequence, recording quadrant changes in each group of adjacent vertexes in the rectangle, obtaining an arc length change of each group of adjacent vertexes by searching in the hash table according to the quadrant changes, and calculating an arc length algebraic sum corresponding to the rectangle according to the arc length change in each group of adjacent vertexes; and

a judging unit configured for determining a positional relationship between the instant longitude and latitude of the vehicle and the rectangle according to the arc length algebraic sum.

6. The system for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the expanded rectangle calculating module is specifically configured for:

receiving characteristic parameters of the route sent by the vehicle monitoring platform, and adding index value for each of the road segments of the route and road inflection points in each of the road segments, wherein each of the road segments comprises a start inflection point and an end inflection point; and

obtaining longitude and latitude of the start inflection point and the end inflection point, and a road width of each of the road segments from the characteristic parameters of the route according to the index value, and expanding each of the road segments into a rectangle respectively according to the longitude and latitude of the start inflection point and the end inflection point and the road width of each of the road segments.

7. The system for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the hash table establishing module comprises:

a minimum enclosing rectangle calculating unit configured for calculating longitude and latitude information of a topmost vertex, a bottommost vertex, a leftmost vertex, and a rightmost vertex of each of the at least two rectangles, and obtaining the minimum enclosing rectangle of the at least two rectangles according to the longitude and latitude information of the topmost vertex, the bottommost vertex, the leftmost vertex, and the rightmost vertex.

8. The system for segmentally limiting speed of vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the hash table establishing module is further configured for storing characteristic documents and the hash table generated after dividing of the rectangles in a storage predetermined by a vehicular terminal;

the current road segment calculating module is further configured for initializing vehicle information in a memory when the vehicle is operating and loading the hash list from the storage;

when the block where the vehicle is currently located is searched according to the hash table, the block information where the vehicle is currently located and block information of two blocks adjacent to the block where the vehicle is currently located is loaded from the storage into the memory, and it is ensured that the memory stores data of three blocks subsequently and continuously, and data of three blocks in the memory is updated simultaneously when the block where the vehicle is currently located has been changed.