Management of mobile objects

• US 10,585,180 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2017
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• 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): Nguyen, Tan Q
• Application Number:
  US15/628,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20180372855A1
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 701408
• 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. A computer system for managing mobile objects, the computer system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising;

acquiring, 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;

acquiring, 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; and

verifying, by a verifying section, a validity of the measurement data using the detection data.

2. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein

instructing the first mobile object to transmit the measurement data at a request from the second mobile object.

3. The computer system according to claim 2, wherein

the second mobile object includes the first acquiring section, and the second acquiring section, and the 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.

4. The computer system according to claim 3, wherein

the verification result transmitting section includes a signature of the second mobile object in the verification result of the verifying section and transmits the verification result including the signature to the first mobile object.

5. The computer system according to claim 3, comprising:

a mobile object server operable to assist with movement of a plurality of mobile objects including the first mobile object and the second mobile object, and

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

6. The computer system according to claim 5, wherein

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.

7. The computer system according to claim 6, 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.

8. The computer system according to claim 5, wherein

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.

9. The computer system according to claim 2, comprising:

a mobile object server operable to assist with movement of a plurality of mobile objects including the first mobile object and the second mobile object, wherein

the first mobile object includes a first data transmitting section operable to transmit measurement data obtained by measuring the first mobile object to the mobile object server,

the second mobile object includes a second data transmitting section operable to transmit detection data obtained by detecting the first mobile object to the mobile object server, in response to receiving the request from the first mobile object,

the mobile object server includes the first acquiring section, the second acquiring section, and the verifying section, and

the verifying section is operable to, in response to the first acquiring section acquiring the measurement data and the second acquiring section acquiring the detection data, verify the validity of the measurement data.

10. A method for managing mobile objects, the method comprising:

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

acquiring 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; and

verifying validity of the measurement data using the detection data.

11. The method according to claim 10, comprising:

instructing the first mobile object to transmit the measurement data and the request to the second mobile object.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein

the first acquisition, the second acquisition, and the verification are performed by the second mobile object, and

verifying the validity of the measurement data using the detection data.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the verification result transmission includes a signature of the second mobile object in the verification result, and transmitting the verification result and the signature to the first mobile object.

14. The method according to claim 12, comprising:

judging 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.

15. The method according to claim 11, comprising:

assisting, by a mobile object server, with movement of a plurality of mobile objects including the first mobile object and the second mobile object, wherein

the first mobile object transmits measurement data obtained by measuring the first mobile object to the mobile object server,

the second mobile object transmits detection data obtained by detecting the first mobile object to the mobile object server, in response to receiving the request from the mobile object server, and

the first acquisition, the second acquisition, and the verification are performed by the mobile object server.

16. A computer program product for managing mobile objects, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to acquire measurement data obtained by a first mobile object measuring the first mobile object, using a sensor of the first mobile object;

program instructions 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; and

program instructions to verify validity of the measurement data using the detection data.

17. The computer program product according to claim 16 further comprising:

program instructions to verify the validity of the measurement data using the detection data; and

program instructions to determine a reliability of the first mobile object based on one or more verification results.

18. The computer program product according to claim 16, wherein

a verification result includes a signature of the second mobile object.

19. The computer program product according to claim 17 further comprising:

program instructions to determine a mobile object for which reliability is to be judged; and

program instructions to instruct the determined mobile object to verify validity of measurement data obtained by measuring the mobile object.