Roadside Fault Detection for Vehicle Communication Failures

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Solution Overview

Problem

Autonomous vehicles face communication failures that prevent timely fault information reporting to remote servers, leading to delayed processing and potential safety hazards.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a vehicle-road collaborative system with edge servers to trigger fault detection by nearby detection devices, collect fault information, and perform processing, even in communication failures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the vehicle reports fault information to a remote server, then the remote server can perform fault processing, but communication faults prevent timely reporting and processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefault processing reliabilityVSAvoidfault information reporting
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces roadside detection devices as intermediaries between faulty vehicles and remote servers. When a vehicle experiences communication failure, roadside detection devices detect and collect fault information from the vehicle, then transmit this information to the remote server, ensuring fault information is not lost even when direct vehicle-server communication fails

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary fault detection and information collection by roadside detection devices before the fault information can be lost. The detection devices continuously monitor vehicles and are ready to immediately collect and report fault information when detected, preventing information loss that would occur with delayed reporting

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If the vehicle reports fault information in real time, then the remote server can timely process faults, but communication faults cause delayed processing and safety hazards

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefault processing efficiencyVSAvoidfault processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Roadside detection devices perform preliminary fault detection and information collection immediately when a fault is detected, eliminating the waiting time for the vehicle to initiate reporting. This preliminary action ensures fault information is captured and transmitted without delay, improving processing efficiency while minimizing time loss

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback mechanism where roadside detection devices continuously monitor vehicles and immediately transmit fault information to the remote server upon detection. This real-time feedback loop ensures timely fault processing by continuously monitoring and rapidly responding to fault conditions, reducing both time loss and safety hazards

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If multiple detection devices are deployed near the vehicle, then fault information can be collected even in communication fault states, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefault detection reliabilityVSAvoiddetection system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Roadside detection devices are designed with multi-functionality, serving both normal traffic monitoring and fault detection purposes. These devices can detect various vehicle parameters including fault information, communication status, and positional data, reducing the need for specialized equipment and simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining high detection reliability

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

Data Source

PatentUS12400491B2Vehicle fault processing method and apparatus, server, device, and medium
Publication Date: 2025.08.26 BLACK SESAME TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Implementations of the present specification provide a vehicle fault processing method and apparatus, a device, and a medium. The method includes: determining a position of a target vehicle when fault detection of the target vehicle is triggered; sending a detection instruction to a target detection device corresponding to the target vehicle based on the position, wherein the target detection device is close to the position and capable of detecting the target vehicle; receiving fault information obtained by performing fault detection on the target vehicle through the detection device in response to the detection instruction; and performing fault processing on the target vehicle based on the fault information. In a case where a faulty vehicle is unable to perform fault communication, fault information of the faulty vehicle may be collected by a nearby target detection device, ensuring the fault processing of the vehicle in a communication fault state.