Dual Vehicle Fault Processing System for Unmanned Safety

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Solution Overview

Problem

Unmanned vehicles face safety hazards due to undetected faults in their software and hardware systems, leading to potential accidents when timely data transfer is impossible.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a dual vehicle fault processing system where two devices monitor and share real-time data from the main system, allowing for consistent fault determination and control actions based on pre-configured authorities, ensuring robustness and safety.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a single vehicle fault processing device is used, then the device complexity is low, but the reliability of fault detection is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefault detection reliabilityVSAvoidvehicle fault processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements independent fault processing capabilities at each vehicle fault processing device, where both the first and second devices can autonomously perform fault detection and determination. This local quality approach ensures that each device has the necessary processing power and algorithms to reliably detect faults, while the system as a whole benefits from redundancy without requiring one device to be overly complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The fault detection system is segmented into multiple independent processing devices, each handling specific aspects of fault monitoring. The first vehicle fault processing device and second vehicle fault processing device operate as separate entities that exchange information, allowing the system to distribute the computational load and improve reliability through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of time

If real-time data sharing between dual fault processing devices is implemented, then the fault detection timeliness is improved, but the data transfer requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefault detection timeVSAvoiddata transfer volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential fault-related data from the complete vehicle system data stream for transmission between the first and second vehicle fault processing devices. By selectively extracting and transmitting only the critical parameters needed for fault detection rather than all available data, the system achieves timely fault detection while minimizing data transfer volume and network bandwidth requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements partial data sharing where each device transmits only the portion of data it has processed or that is relevant to its specific monitoring function. This partial action approach avoids the excessive data transfer that would occur if complete data sets were exchanged, while still providing sufficient information for reliable joint fault determination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10991177B2Method for processing vehicle fault, apparatus, device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2021.04.27 APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for processing vehicle fault, the method includes obtaining, by a first vehicle fault processing device, first data information of a main system of a vehicle in real time, obtaining second data information of the main system sent by a second vehicle fault processing device, and sending the first data information to the second vehicle fault processing device, so that the second vehicle fault processing device performs fault determination on the main system according to the first data information and the second data information; determining, by the first vehicle fault processing device, whether a fault has occurred in the main system according to the first data information and the second data information; and performing, by the first vehicle fault processing device, corresponding control on the vehicle according to a pre-configured control authority if the fault has occurred in the main system.