Motorcycle Group Information Sharing with Four-Wheeled Vehicles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current information sharing systems between vehicles, particularly between motorcycles and four-wheeled vehicles, lack effective preventive safety measures, especially for four-wheeled vehicles on automatic operation, as they often fail to accurately obtain group information of nearby motorcycles, leading to potential safety hazards due to blind spots and complex traffic conditions.
Innovation Solution
An inter-vehicle information sharing system that enables motorcycles to share group information with surrounding four-wheeled vehicles through vehicle-to-vehicle communication using imaging and radar detection units, allowing accurate transmission of vehicle information and group data, even in cases where four-wheeled vehicles are on automatic operation and have blind spots.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If four-wheeled vehicles use detection units such as millimeter-wave radar and imaging units to detect surrounding conditions, then the ability to obtain accurate information improves, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple detection functions (millimeter-wave radar detection and imaging unit detection) into a single integrated detection system. The detection unit performs both radar wave transmission/reception and image capture, merging what would traditionally be separate systems into one unified device that reduces overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive detection capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The detection unit is designed to perform multiple functions: it acts as both a millimeter-wave radar for detecting surrounding vehicles and an imaging unit for visual identification. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate dedicated radar and camera systems, thereby reducing device complexity and cost while improving measurement precision through complementary detection methods.
2Device complexity
If four-wheeled vehicles rely solely on their own detection units to obtain information about surrounding motorcycles, then device simplicity is maintained, but information accuracy and completeness deteriorate due to blind spots
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces motorcycles as intermediaries that actively transmit their own identification information and group information to four-wheeled vehicles. Instead of relying solely on the four-wheeled vehicle's detection units to passively detect motorcycles, the motorcycles themselves become active participants in the information exchange, mediating the flow of accurate information and eliminating blind spots without requiring the four-wheeled vehicle to have omnidirectional detection capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where motorcycles transmit their identification information and group information to four-wheeled vehicles, which then use this information for safer operation. The continuous exchange of information creates a feedback mechanism that ensures four-wheeled vehicles have accurate, real-time data about surrounding motorcycles, compensating for limitations in their own detection units.
3Loss of information
If motorcycles transmit information to four-wheeled vehicles continuously, then information availability improves, but energy consumption and communication load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic information transmission where motorcycles send their identification information and group information to four-wheeled vehicles at regular intervals or when specific conditions are met (such as when a four-wheeled vehicle is detected nearby). This periodic transmission strategy ensures that information remains available and up-to-date while avoiding continuous transmission that would waste energy and create unnecessary communication load.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system enhances preventive safety by ensuring accurate and timely sharing of information between motorcycles and four-wheeled vehicles, reducing the risk of unexpected behaviors and maintaining mutual safety without the need for additional costly detection units, thus improving safety and reducing system complexity.
Implementation Method 1
information from the motorcycle to the four-wheeled vehicle is transmitted when the four-wheeled vehicle is detected by an imaging unit
Implementation Method 2
information from the motorcycle to the four-wheeled vehicle is transmitted when the four-wheeled vehicle is detected by an imaging unit or an irradiated detection unit included in the motorcycle
Data Source
AI summary
Motorcycles in a group action share group information to which each of motorcycles belongs and the motorcycles share information with a surrounding four-wheeled vehicle via a vehicle-to-vehicle communication. The information to be shared is the group information. Information from the motorcycle to the four-wheeled vehicle is transmitted when the four-wheeled vehicle is detected by an imaging unit included in the motorcycle or transmitted when a detection unit irradiated from the four-wheeled vehicle is detected.