US 12,374,218 B2
Method for cooperative resource allocation for performing movement maneuvers in a road area, and related control circuit and motor vehicle having such a control circuit
Julia Rainer, Ingolstadt (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Appl. No. 18/001,419
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
PCT Filed May 3, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/061502
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/249695, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 115 432.1 (DE), filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0222902 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01)
CPC G08G 1/0145 (2013.01) [G08G 1/096725 (2013.01); G08G 1/096766 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05); H04L 2209/84 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for cooperative resource allocation for executing movement maneuvers in a road area, the method comprising:
dividing the road area into one or more resources based on a predetermined division specification, wherein a storage device is used for reservation data for exclusively reserving the one or more resources;
providing the one or more resources to a control circuit of a road user as the road user approaches the road area and/or is located in the road area, wherein a required entry location into the road area and a required exit location from the road area are known by a preset travel way;
planning, by the control circuit, a movement route from the required entry location to the required exit location using the one or more resources based on the reservation data currently stored in the storage device;
reserving, by the road user, the one or more resources required by generating and storing the reservation data in the storage device according to the planned movement route;
occupying, by the road user, the one or more resources of the road area one after another in time according to the reservation data by means of initiation of the movement maneuvers, and
executing, by the control circuit, the movement maneuvers of the road user along the movement route, wherein the road user and another road user pass the road area without mutual interference based on the movement route,
wherein a data structure is used in the storage device, the data structure being kept synchronized between the road user and the other road user in the road area via an ad-hoc radio network formed by the control circuit,
wherein if the road user approaches the road area alone, and the road area is empty, the data structure is dynamically generated and stored in the storage device,
wherein the data structure includes a blockchain, in which the reservation data is attached as a new data block by the control circuit of the road user, and
wherein the blockchain is automatically applied only in the road area when the road user is located in the road area, such that the other road user no longer considers a blockchain message as soon as the other road user is outside of the road area, and after the other road user exits a transmission range of involved vehicles and thereby no longer receives the blockchain message.