Volkswagen Ag

Man Truck & Bus Se.

Volkswagen Aktiegensellschaft

Technische Universitát Dresden

Guillaume Jornod

Andreas Pfadler

Daniel Reimann

Ahmad El Assaad

Israel Gonzalez Vazquez

Andreas Kwoczek

Steffen Schmitz

Roman Alieiev

Thorsten Hehn

Ernst Zielinski

Bernd Lehmann

Schmitz Steffen

Richard Jacob

Alieiev Roman

Moritz Schönauer

Ali Haider Mahdi

Norman Franchi

The disclosure relates to a method for authenticating a user for using a reserved rental vehicle. In one embodiment, radio-signal-based primary authentication information is transmitted to an electronic input unit of the user and the user can be authenticated on the basis of a check of the primary authentication information using a server system outside the vehicle. Secondary authentication information based on optical image processing is transmitted, in addition to the primary authentication information, to the electronic input unit of the user and to an authentication unit of the rental vehicle. If the user could not be successfully authenticated for using the reserved rental vehicle using the primary authentication information, the user is authenticated for using the reserved rental vehicle on the basis of a check of the secondary authentication information using the authentication unit of the rental vehicle.

Method for authenticating a user for using a rental vehicle reserved by the user, and computer program product and authentication system

Transportation vehicles, methods, computer programs, and apparatuses for resolving a deadlock traffic situation in an automatically operated transportation vehicle. A method includes detecting the deadlock traffic situation, reporting the deadlock traffic situation to a control center, entering a tele-operated driving session in coordination with the control center, determining information on a reference location for the tele-operated driving session, forwarding the information on the reference location for the tele-operated driving session to other transportation vehicles, and resolving the deadlock traffic situation in the tele-operated driving session.

Vehicles, methods, computer programs, and apparatuses for resolving a deadlock traffic situation of an automatically operated vehicle

A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for user equipment of a mobile communication system. The method for user equipment (UE) of a mobile communication system and for determining a communication group of multiple UEs includes receiving information on radio access capabilities from candidate UEs of the communication group, determining one or more radio access technologies to use in the communication group based on the information on the radio access capabilities from the candidate UEs, determining participants of the communication group based on their radio access technologies, and forming the group based on communicating using the one or more radio technologies.

Vehicle, apparatus, method, and computer program for user equipment of a mobile communication system

Methods, computer programs, communication circuits for communicating in a tele-operated driving session, a transportation vehicle and a remote control center for remotely controlling a transportation vehicle. The method for a transportation vehicle and communicating in a tele-operated driving session between the transportation vehicle and a remote control center includes establishing the tele-operated driving session, the transportation vehicle receiving a message including information on the environment of the transportation vehicle from a traffic entity outside the transportation vehicle, and the transportation vehicle transmitting the information to the remote control center for remotely controlling the transportation vehicle based on the information.

Methods, computer programs, communication circuits for communicating in a tele-operated driving session, vehicle and remote control center for controlling a vehicle from remote

A method, a computer program, and an apparatus for invoking a tele-operated driving session for a transportation vehicle equipped with an automated driving function, and a transportation vehicle equipped with an automated driving function, which uses the method or apparatus. A quality of service for a communication between the transportation vehicle and a control center is predicted for a tele-operated driving session, communication requirements for the tele-operated driving session are predicted, at least one parameter of the transportation vehicle is then adapted so that the communication requirements match the predicted quality of service, and a tele-operated driving session is initiated.

Method, computer program and apparatus for invoking a tele-operated driving session

A method, a computer program, an apparatus, a transportation vehicle, and a network entity for predicting a deadlock situation for an automated transportation vehicle. The deadlock situation is an exceptional traffic situation necessitating a change of an operational mode of the transportation vehicle. The method for predicting a deadlock situation for the automated transportation vehicle includes obtaining information related to a historical deadlock situation cause, determining historical context information for the historical deadlock situation cause, determining information indicative for the deadlock situation cause based on the information related to the historical context information, monitoring actual context information for information indicative for the deadlock situation, and predicting the deadlock situation based on the information indicative for the deadlock situation in the actual context information.

Method, computer program, apparatus, vehicle, and network entity for predicting a deadlock situation for an automated vehicle

A method for predictively estimating the transmission conditions for a communication between two communication partners traveling along a roadway, wherein the communication partners themselves estimate the current transmission conditions. The communication partners use the estimated transmission conditions of a number of preceding communication partners to better estimate the transmission conditions for a future time. The communication partners themselves also estimate the transmission conditions for the future time based on a sensor-based detection of the surroundings and merging the estimation results obtained in this way with the results obtained from the preceding transportation vehicles.

Method for predictively estimating the transmission conditions for a communication between two communication partners, device for carrying out the method steps of the method, vehicle and computer program

Methods, computer programs, apparatuses, a transportation vehicle, and a control center for resolving a deadlock traffic situation of a transportation vehicle. The method includes detecting the deadlock traffic situation, reporting the deadlock traffic situation to a control center, entering a tele-operated driving session in coordination with the control center, determining information on an identification of the deadlock traffic situation in coordination with the control center, forwarding the information on the identification of the deadlock situation to other transportation vehicles, and resolving the deadlock traffic situation using tele-operation by the control center.

Methods, computer programs, apparatuses, vehicle and control center for resolving a deadlock traffic situation of a vehicle

A transportation vehicle, a traffic control entity, a method, a computer program, and an apparatus for determining a minimum inter-vehicular distance for a platoon. The method for determining a minimum inter-vehicular distance for a platoon of transportation vehicles obtains information related to a predicted quality of service (pQoS) of communication links between the transportation vehicles of the platoon; a speed of the transportation vehicles of the platoon; and one or more maximum decelerations of the transportation vehicles of the platoon. The method also uses a functional relationship between the pQoS, the speed, the one or more maximum decelerations, and an inter-vehicular distance to determine the minimum inter-vehicular distance.

Method, computer program, and apparatus for determining a minimum inter-vehicular distance for a platoon, vehicle, traffic control entity

A method for detecting OTFS pilot interference including receiving delay-Doppler-domain samples of a received OTFS delay-Doppler frame, wherein the delay-Doppler domain samples are derived by a two-dimensional symplectic Fourier transformation of time-frequency domain samples resulting from sampling a time-varying received OFTS coded signal; summing the squares of the amplitudes of the delay-Doppler domain samples of the delay-Doppler grid positions evaluated for the channel estimation to establish the received non-interfering pilot power; summing the squares of the amplitudes of all the delay-Doppler domain samples of the complete delay-Doppler grid to establish the total received frame power; comparing a pilot power ratio derived by dividing the non-interfering pilot power by the total received frame power with a guard space ratio derived by dividing the sum of the number of guard and pilot grid spaces in the transmitted OTFS frame by the total number of grid spaces of the transmitted OTFS frame.

Differential power analysis for OTFS pilot interference detection

A method for managing a communication between a base station of a cellular mobile communication system and at least one first moving communication partner. The method includes collecting service quality reporting messages from moving communication partners, registered in the communication cell managed by the base station, wherein the collecting service quality reporting messages include collecting service quality reporting messages for direct communications between two moving communication partners and generating link-based quality of service maps for the communications between the base station and the moving communication partners, as well as for the direct communications between two of the moving communication partners. The method also includes predicting the quality of service for a communication between the base station and at least one moving communication partner based on the generated link-based quality of service maps map.

Method and apparatus for managing a communication between a base station of a cellular mobile communication system and at least one moving communication partner, computer program, apparatus for performing steps of the method, and a vehicle

A system, a transportation vehicle, a network component, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and a network component. The method for a transportation vehicle to determine a route section includes operating the transportation vehicle in an automated driving mode and determining an exceptional traffic situation. The method also includes transmitting information related to the exceptional traffic situation to a network component using a mobile communication system and receiving information related to driving instructions for the route section to overcome the exceptional traffic situation from the network component, wherein the receiving of the driving instructions includes tele-operating the transportation vehicle along the route section to overcome the exceptional traffic situation.

System, vehicle, network component, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and a network component

A transportation vehicle, a system, apparatuses, methods, and a computer program for a user equipment and a network component of a mobile communication system. The method for a user equipment of a mobile communication system to receive control information includes receiving a first control information, wherein the first control information includes information related to a modulation format of second control information; and receiving a second control information using the modulation format indicated by the first control information.

Transportation vehicle, system, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for user equipment and a network component of a mobile communication system

A method, a computer program, an apparatus, a transportation vehicle, and a network component for controlling a communication link used for tele-operating a transportation vehicle. The method includes obtaining information related to a predicted quality of service (pQoS) for the communication link between the transportation vehicle and a tele-operator of the transportation vehicle and selecting an operating mode for tele-operating the transportation vehicle from a group of operating modes based on the information related to the pQoS, the group of operating modes having two or more operating modes differing at least in a speed limit for the transportation vehicle.

Method, computer program, apparatus, vehicle and network component for controlling a communication link used for tele-operating a vehicle

A method for determining a high-density platooning (HDPL) driving maneuver which includes selecting an HDPL closing maneuver, and selecting an HDPL opening maneuver. Closing maneuver means a maneuver with which the inter-vehicle distance between platoon members is decreased. Opening maneuver means a maneuver with which the inter-vehicle distance between platoon members is increased. The method also includes testing the selected HDPL maneuvers in terms of energy consumption taking into account a predicted quality of service (QoS) of a vehicle-to-vehicle V2V communication link for the communication between the platoon members. In response to the selected HDPL driving maneuvers not fulfilling the test criteria, the method waits a time and then selects an HDPL closing maneuver and an HDPL opening maneuver and tests the newly chosen HDPL maneuver again.

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Guillaume Jornod