Roadside Unit Sensing for Lower-Complexity Autonomous Vehicle Control

The patent introduces roadside units (RSUs) as intermediary components that perform sensing, detection, and control functions externally. These RSUs act as mediators between the central control system and vehicles, providing autonomy support without requiring complex on-board systems in each vehicle. The roadside units handle tasks like obstacle detection, traffic condition monitoring, and control signal generation, thereby reducing the burden on vehicle-mounted equipment while maintaining high autonomy levels.

The patent extracts critical sensing and control functions from the vehicles themselves and relocates them to roadside infrastructure. By taking out functions such as environmental sensing, traffic detection, and control decision-making from the vehicle platform and placing them in roadside units, the system achieves vehicle autonomy without requiring each vehicle to carry complex autonomous systems.

The patent implements a centralized control system that generates universal control instructions applicable to multiple vehicles simultaneously. Rather than sending individualized instructions to each vehicle, the system creates comprehensive control signals that address traffic conditions for groups of vehicles, reducing overall communication data volume while maintaining safety and efficiency improvements for all affected vehicles.

The patent merges control instructions for multiple vehicles into consolidated communication transmissions. By combining control signals intended for different vehicles into unified communication packets sent through the roadside infrastructure, the system reduces the total quantity of communication data while still providing detailed and time-sensitive guidance to each vehicle as needed.