Vehicle Deactivated State Detection via Threshold Monitoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern motor vehicles pose risks during scrapping due to pyrotechnic systems like airbags, and existing methods for safely deactivating these systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks, which can lead to incorrect detection of the vehicle's operating state, potentially causing accidents.

Innovation Solution

A method that reliably determines a deactivated operating state by analyzing operating parameters over a predefined period, using a user interface connected to the vehicle's network, which checks if the parameters have consistently remained below or above specified thresholds, making it robust against cyber attacks by considering the duration rather than instantaneous values.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If instantaneous operating parameter values are used to determine vehicle state, then the detection speed is fast, but the reliability is reduced due to vulnerability to cyber attacks

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereliability of operating state detectionVSAvoidcomplexity of detection method
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously monitoring and storing operating parameter values over a predetermined time period before making a determination. This preparatory data collection enables reliable detection by comparing historical data against threshold values, ensuring that the vehicle is truly in a stationary state before enabling pyrotechnic component deactivation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously comparing current operating parameter values against previously stored values and threshold criteria. The determination of vehicle stationary state is based on feedback from multiple parameter checks over time, ensuring that cyber attack manipulations are detected and rejected through inconsistent parameter patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If operating parameters are monitored over a predetermined time period, then the reliability against cyber attacks is improved, but the detection time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverobustness against cyber attacksVSAvoidtime for state determination
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by monitoring only the essential operating parameters required for stationary state determination rather than all possible vehicle parameters. The predetermined time period is set to the minimum necessary duration to detect cyber attacks, balancing reliability improvement with time loss minimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Measurement precision

If multiple operating parameters are checked against threshold values, then the measurement precision is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of stationary state detectionVSAvoidcomplexity of parameter monitoring system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves universality by using a single control device that performs multiple functions: it monitors various operating parameters, stores values over time, compares parameters against threshold criteria, and determines vehicle stationary state. This multi-functional approach improves measurement precision through comprehensive parameter checking while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate monitoring systems.

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

Data Source

PatentEP3681766B1Method for determining a deactivated operating state of a motor vehicle
Publication Date: 2021.12.08 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
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AI summary

When a motor vehicle is recycled, the following steps are carried out: a) receiving a signal (16) comprising an operating parameter of the motor vehicle (1), particularly speed; b) determining a moment when the operating parameter from the received signal (16) last exceeded a predeterminable threshold; c) recognising a deactivated operating state of the motor vehicle according to whether the determined moment is behind by more than a predetermined time interval (23); and d) issuing a triggering signal for the airbag.