Motorcycle Curve Guidance Using Fleet Turning Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Straddle-type vehicles, such as motorcycles, experience instability during turning on curved roads due to their high degree of freedom in travel path, necessitating improved safety measures.

Innovation Solution

A rider-assistance system that generates travel guide information through statistical processing of turning travel data from multiple vehicles, using a server to collect and manage data from straddle-type vehicles, and provides real-time assistance to riders before entering a curved road.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If statistical processing of turning travel data from multiple vehicles is implemented, then safety during turning maneuvers is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety during turning maneuversVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A server acts as an intermediary to collect, store, and process turning travel data from multiple vehicles. The server generates travel guide information that is transmitted back to individual vehicles, eliminating the need for each vehicle to independently complex processing algorithms while still benefiting from aggregated data analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary processing of turning travel data by generating travel guide information in advance before the vehicle enters the curved road. This allows safety improvements to be implemented using pre-computed guidance data rather than requiring complex real-time processing during the actual turning maneuver.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If travel guide information is provided before entering curved road, then stability during turning travel is improved, but information processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestability during turning travelVSAvoidinformation processing load
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system generates and provides travel guide information in advance before the vehicle enters the curved road. This preliminary provision of guidance data allows the vehicle to maintain stability during turning without requiring intensive real-time information processing during the critical maneuver itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the essential travel guide information from the comprehensive turning travel data set. By selecting and providing only the necessary guidance parameters rather than all available data, the system reduces information processing requirements while maintaining stability improvement benefits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20260001611A1Rider-assistance system, data structure, and control method
Publication Date: 2026.01.01 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
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AI summary

The present invention obtains a rider-assistance system, a data structure, and a control method capable of improving safety of a straddle-type vehicle.In a rider-assistance system 1, the data structure, and the control method according to the present invention, an execution section of the rider-assistance system 1 executes rider-assistance operation to assist with driving by a rider. Furthermore, a generation section of the rider-assistance system 1 generates travel guide information on a curved road by subjecting a data set, which includes turning travel information of each of plural straddle-type vehicles 10 on the curved road acquired by each of the vehicles, to statistical processing. Before the straddle-type vehicle 10 enters the curved road, the execution section executes the rider-assistance operation on the basis of the travel guide information that is generated by the generation section.