Vehicle Speed Data Processing Device for Optimal Travel

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for semi-autonomous or autonomous vehicle longitudinal guidance lack the ability to determine a comfortable and safe vehicle speed for a route section, particularly in dynamic conditions such as traffic jams or changing weather, and are influenced by slow-moving traffic.

Innovation Solution

A data processing device with a receiving and determining device, utilizing position determination systems like GPS, radar, and camera systems to assess the road conditions ahead, determines an optimal speed based on free travel information, adjusting for obstacles and stored data to ensure safety and comfort.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If the optimal speed is determined based on all recorded driving speeds, then more data is available for calculation, but the optimal speed is falsified by slow-moving traffic such as traffic jams

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of driving speed dataVSAvoidaccuracy of optimal speed determination
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and separates relevant data from the complete dataset by identifying and excluding driving speed records that do not meet the free travel criteria. Only driving speeds associated with free route sections are used for optimal speed calculation, thereby preventing traffic jam data from falsifying the results while maintaining sufficient data quantity for accurate determination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Productivity

If the vehicle is guided at maximum speed, then travel time is reduced, but safety reserves are insufficient for changed weather conditions or evasive maneuvers

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetravel speedVSAvoidsafety reserve
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent determines an optimal speed that is lower than the maximum possible speed, establishing a speed parameter that balances travel efficiency with safety requirements. This optimal speed provides sufficient safety reserves for weather changes and evasive maneuvers while maintaining acceptable travel productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Device complexity

If the optimal speed is determined without filtering traffic conditions, then the calculation is simpler, but the speed is falsified by slow-moving traffic

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomplexity of speed determination systemVSAvoidaccuracy of optimal speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary filtering of driving speed data based on free travel information before calculating the optimal speed. By pre-screening and selecting only relevant data points associated with free route sections, the system maintains relatively simple processing while ensuring accurate optimal speed determination不受 traffic jam interference.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP2728562B1Data processing device and method for such a data processing device
Publication Date: 2017.08.16 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
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AI summary

The device (10) has a receiving device (30) for receiving information about detected position of a vehicle and information about a track section (80) with respect to free driving of the vehicle. A determination device is coupled with the receiving device, and determines optimal speed of the vehicle based on driving speed of the vehicle, where the optimal speed of the vehicle is checked with information of the free driving for the track section. A transmission device (65) is connected with a detection device (60), and the receiving device is connected with an antenna (35). Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a method for determining optimal speed at detected position (2) a computer program product with program code units for executing a method for determining optimal speed at detected position.