CAN Orchestrator Routing Across Vehicle Communication Silos
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication technologies for autonomous driving vehicles operate in silos, lacking a global quality of service that can adapt to changing conditions and ensure reliable real-time data transmission, which is critical for safety and efficiency in dynamic transportation environments.
Innovation Solution
A system with a CAN orchestrator that intercepts and reroutes data transfers across multiple communication technologies based on the type of data and available channels, ensuring optimal routing for efficient and reliable data communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple independent communication technologies are used in silos, then each technology can be optimized for its specific propagation problems, but global quality of service cannot be ensured across different communication methods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway as an intermediary component that sits between the siloed communication technologies and the application layer. This gateway monitors multiple communication channels (wireless, wired, optical) and intelligently routes data packets through the most appropriate channel based on real-time conditions, thereby providing global quality of service without requiring the communication technologies themselves to be interconnected or aware of each other.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway is designed as a universal component that can handle multiple types of communication protocols and data types simultaneously. It provides a unified quality of service management interface that works across diverse communication technologies, enabling adaptable routing decisions for different data requirements while maintaining compatibility with existing siloed communication systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If communication technologies operate independently in silos, then each technology can maintain its own optimization, but real-time adaptation to changing conditions across different communication methods is impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway serves as a central intermediary that consolidates the complexity of real-time adaptation logic in one location rather than requiring each communication silo to be independently adaptive. The gateway monitors channel conditions, data types, and quality of service requirements, then makes real-time routing decisions without requiring changes to the underlying communication technologies.
Solution Approach 2:
The system architecture is segmented into independent communication silos that remain unchanged, with the adaptive intelligence separated into the gateway component. This segmentation allows real-time adaptation functionality to be added without increasing the complexity of individual communication technologies, while the gateway manages the overall system coordination.
3Productivity
If data transfers are routed through multiple independent communication silos, then technology-specific optimization is maintained, but efficient global data transfer and resource conservation cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway acts as an intelligent intermediary that intercepts data transfers and routes them through the most efficient available communication channel based on real-time conditions. By monitoring channel availability, data type requirements, and quality of service parameters, the gateway optimizes data transfer paths to improve productivity while minimizing energy consumption and resource usage across the communication infrastructure.
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AI summary
An orchestrator ensures the best available vehicle communication technology is selected. In the computer architecture, the orchestrator is injected on the data bus line is also coupled to a plurality of independent silos of vehicle communication technologies for autonomous driving vehicle technologies. Real-time accurate strength signals associated with the plurality of independent silos are received. One of the independent silos of communication is selected for rerouting the data transfer, based on a type of data involved in the data transfer, and based on a best available of the plurality of independent silos for the data transfer type. The data transfer is directed over the selected independent silo that is the best available.