Vehicle Collision Avoidance via Transponder Radio Wave Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing number of collisions between vehicles and wild animals, particularly in forest and urban areas, poses a significant risk due to unnoticed animals being imperceptible to drivers, leading to serious damage and accidents.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing transponders on moving objects and reading devices on vehicles that emit high-frequency radio waves, with data processed in a cloud computing unit to calculate potential collision risks, providing warnings to drivers through displays or audio outputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If drivers rely on normal visual attention while operating vehicles, then they can focus on driving tasks, but they cannot detect imperceptible objects such as wild animals in time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces transponders as intermediary devices attached to imperceptible objects (wild animals). These transponders reflect radio waves from reading devices, enabling indirect detection of objects that are otherwise invisible to drivers. The transponder acts as a mediator between the imperceptible object and the detection system, converting the object's presence into detectable radio signal reflections.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/visual detection system (drivers using eyes and attention) with an electromagnetic field-based detection system (reading devices emitting radio waves). This substitution enables detection of imperceptible objects without requiring driver visual attention, solving the contradiction between maintaining normal driving focus and detecting hidden objects.
2Reliability
If a detection system using transponders and radio waves is implemented, then detection of imperceptible objects is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex data processing and collision risk calculation functions from the vehicle-mounted reading device and relocates them to a cloud-based computing unit. The reading device only needs to emit radio waves, receive reflections, and transmit raw data to the cloud, significantly simplifying the on-vehicle system while maintaining high detection reliability through sophisticated cloud-based analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the computational dimension from the vehicle (local processing) to the cloud (remote processing). This dimensional shift allows complex algorithms for movement pattern analysis and collision risk calculation to be executed remotely, reducing the hardware complexity and computational burden on vehicle systems while enhancing detection capabilities.
3Reliability
If real-time data processing is performed in the vehicle, then immediate collision warnings can be provided, but computational resources and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces the cloud computing unit as an intermediary that handles all computationally intensive data processing tasks. The vehicle's reading device communicates with the cloud, which performs movement pattern determination and collision risk calculations. This intermediary approach enables real-time warning capability while minimizing energy consumption in the vehicle system, as the cloud performs the heavy computational work.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the vehicle's local computational system with a remote cloud-based computing system. Instead of equipping vehicles with powerful onboard processors that consume significant energy, the system substitutes this with cloud-based computation accessible via communication networks, dramatically reducing the energy burden on mobile vehicle systems while maintaining real-time processing capabilities.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system effectively warns drivers of potential collisions with imperceptible objects, enabling them to take preventive measures and reduce the risk of accidents by accurately determining movement patterns and object-specific data, thereby enhancing safety.
Implementation Method 1
the at least one on the vehicle and/or reader arranged at the base emits high-frequency radio waves into an environment passed or to be passed by the vehicle
Implementation Method 2
the transponder arranged on the moving object picks up the radio waves emitted by the reader when the object is in the area passed by the vehicle passed or to be passed surroundings bef indet, and in response to this itself emits radio waves with object-specific data
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a system for preventing a collision between a vehicle (11) and an object that moves at least temporarily without being noticed by a user of the vehicle (11), wherein the system comprises at least one transponder configured to be arranged on the moving object for operating the system, and at least one reader (12, 14) designed to be arranged on the vehicle (11) and/or on at least one support point communicatively connected to the vehicle (11) for operating the system, wherein, when the system is operated, at least one reader (12, 14) arranged on the vehicle (11) and/or on the support point emits high-frequency radio waves into an environment traversed by the vehicle (11), and the transponder arranged on the moving object receives the radio waves emitted by the reader (12, 14),when the object is located in the environment traversed by the vehicle (11), and in response emits radio waves with object-specific data, which are received by the reader (12, 14), transmitted together with vehicle-specific data to a computing unit implemented in a cloud, and evaluated by the computing unit encompassed by the cloud and accessible to the reader (12, 14), and made available to the user. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a corresponding method.