Recommended Speed Service for Dynamic Road Conditions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current autonomous driving systems lack the ability to adapt vehicle speed to dynamic and varied driving conditions effectively, leading to potential safety issues and user dissatisfaction, as they rely on actual driver data which is influenced by human behavior and requires extensive vehicle usage for reliable statistics, especially in rare or changing scenarios.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a method that uses recommended speed data processed by a machine learning model to estimate appropriate vehicle speed, reducing driver-specific influences and providing statistically reliable speed recommendations through a map service, utilizing a holistic speed adaptation algorithm and combining data from various sensors and map layers for accurate and efficient speed adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If actual speed data from vehicles is collected for statistical analysis, then speed recommendations can be provided based on real-world driving behavior, but the results are influenced by driver-specific behavior and require many vehicles to pass before statistically appropriate values are achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestatistical reliability of speed recommendationsVSAvoidtime to accumulate sufficient data
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing speed data in advance during normal operations, preprocessing it through machine learning models to extract recommended speed values. This preparation work is done before statistical analysis is needed, so when a road segment needs speed recommendations, the pre-processed data is already available, eliminating the need to wait for numerous vehicles to pass and reducing the time delay while maintaining statistical reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If the system waits for multiple vehicles to provide data before providing speed recommendations, then statistical accuracy improves, but the system cannot respond quickly to rapidly changing scenarios like fog or road work

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestatistical accuracy of speed dataVSAvoidresponse speed to changing conditions
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical accumulation approach (waiting for multiple vehicles to physically pass and collect data) with an information-based system. Machine learning models process individual vehicle speed data to generate recommended speed values, and these recommendations are shared across the network. This substitution allows the system to provide statistically accurate speed recommendations even with limited data, enabling rapid response to changing conditions while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Measurement precision

If manually labeled data or specific reference sensors are used, then accurate speed recommendations can be provided for specific conditions, but it requires specific solutions for each type of scene information making it difficult to scale

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of speed recommendationsVSAvoidcomplexity of scaling to multiple scenarios
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal machine learning model that processes speed data from multiple vehicles across diverse road conditions and scenarios. Instead of creating specific solutions for each scene type (rain, snow, road work, etc.), the model learns patterns from aggregated data and generates appropriate speed recommendations for any condition. This multi-functional approach maintains high accuracy across various scenarios while simplifying the system architecture and making it easily scalable to new conditions without additional complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3882881B1Recommended speed service
Publication Date: 2024.07.24 MAGNA ELECTRONICS SWEDEN AB
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AI summary

Method for providing recommended speed data to vehicles, wherein a fleet of vehicles (4), adapted to run an algorithm for holistic estimation of a recommended vehicle speed, transmit recommended speed messages (1) to a map service provider (2), said received recommended speed messages (1) are mapped to a corresponding road segment (6) and saved in a database (8), said saved recommended speed data being a basis to compute an aggregated recommended speed information for each corresponding road segment (6), said aggregated recommended speed data being transmitted as aggregated recommended speed message (3) to vehicles subscribed to said map service.