US 12,032,386 B2
Method for safeguarding a communication between a first and a second vehicle, control device, communication arrangement and vehicle arrangement
Christoph Thein, Hildesheim (DE); Frank Hofmann, Hildesheim (DE); and Jens Schwardmann, Hildesheim (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/394,652.
Claims priority of application No. 102020209871.9 (DE), filed on Aug. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0043462 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); H04B 17/373 (2015.01); H04B 17/382 (2015.01)
CPC G05D 1/0295 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3415 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); H04B 17/373 (2015.01); H04B 17/382 (2015.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for safeguarding a communication between a first vehicle (3) having a first communication device and a second vehicle (4) having a second communication device and following the first vehicle (3), the method comprising:
interchanging data between the first communication device and the second communication device by way of a direct wireless communication connection,
estimating a future transmission quality of the direct wireless communication connection based on a planned route of the first vehicle (3) and the second vehicle (4) and a line of sight check (200) between the first vehicle (3) and the second vehicle (4) and/or between the first communication device and the second communication device, and
performing a countermeasure to improve a transmission quality of the direct wireless communication device when the future transmission quality is below a minimum transmission quality, the countermeasure including adjusting an operation of at least one selected from the group consisting of the first communication device, the second communication device, the first vehicle (3), and the second vehicle (4).