V2X Micromobility Detection for Vehicle Collision Avoidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively detect and navigate around potential collisions with micromobility transports such as bicycles, scooters, and pedestrians, leading to increased accident risks.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication to monitor the number, speed, and direction of micromobility transports, providing real-time notifications to vehicles to avoid potential collisions by adjusting speed and direction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If V2X communication is implemented to detect micromobility transports, then safety is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses V2X communication as an intermediary system that enables vehicles to receive information about micromobility transports without requiring complex onboard detection equipment. The communication infrastructure acts as a mediator, transmitting data about bicycles, scooters, and pedestrians to vehicles, thereby improving safety while avoiding the need for complex active sensing systems in each vehicle.
Solution Approach 2:
The V2X communication system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it detects micromobility transports, provides location information, communicates speed and direction data, and enables collision avoidance. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized systems, thereby improving safety without proportionally increasing device complexity.
2Reliability
If real-time monitoring of micromobility transports is implemented, then collision avoidance is improved, but use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic updates of micromobility transport information through V2X communication rather than continuous monitoring. The vehicle receives updated data about micromobility transports at regular intervals, which provides sufficient information for collision avoidance while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous real-time tracking.
Solution Approach 2:
The micromobility transports themselves provide the monitoring service by equipping them with V2X communication capabilities. They autonomously transmit their location, speed, and direction information to vehicles, eliminating the need for vehicles to expend energy actively detecting and tracking these smaller transports.
3Measurement precision
If V2X communication system is deployed, then detection precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex detection and tracking functions from the vehicle system and places them in the V2X communication infrastructure. The vehicle simply receives pre-processed information about micromobility transports including precise location, speed, and direction data, thereby achieving high detection precision without adding complex detection equipment to the vehicle.
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AI summary
An example operation includes one or more of determining a number of micromobility transports in an area, determining a speed and a direction of the micromobility transports, notifying a vehicle approaching the area when the number of the micromobility transports is above a threshold and the speed and the direction will cause an event with the vehicle, and providing a position and a speed to the vehicle to navigate the event.