Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Mohammad Nekoui

Mohsen Bahrami

Navid Tafaghodi Khajavi

Amin Ariannezhad

Hamed Asadi

Praveen Kumar Yalavarty

Michael Miotto

A V2X event-message dictionary and a binning function are received from a cloud server. Sensor data is compared to events specified in the V2X event-message dictionary to identify a best-fit event for the sensor data. A number of bins and a bin number for the event are computed using the binning function. A V2X message is transmitted including the number of bins and the bin number, thereby avoiding including the sensor data in the V2X message.

Information aware V2X messaging

Systems and methods for predicting an optimal use level of a driver assist system are provided. The system may collect historical driver behavior and road condition data, and train an optimization prediction model using the historical data, e.g., via machine learning or artificial intelligence. Moreover, the system may collect real-time driver behavior and road condition data, and predict an optimal use level of the driver assist system based on the real-time data using the trained optimization prediction model. The system may then send feedback to the driver assist system when the optimal use level falls outside a predetermined threshold, such that the driver assist system may be unavailable or have reduced functionality until the optimal use level improves.

Drive assist optimization systems and methods using artificial intelligence

System and methods for a decentralized hybrid air-ground autonomous last-mile goods delivery are disclosed herein. A drone can include a controller configured to cause the drone to depart from a docking station of a vehicle, transmit a discovery message to available vehicles in an operating area, the discovery message having drone metadata, select at least one of one of the available vehicles based on response codes received from the available vehicle, or a nearest fixed docking station, and dock with a docking station of the one of the available vehicles or the nearest fixed docking station.

Systems and methods for a decentralized hybrid air-ground autonomous last-mile goods delivery

A method includes obtaining a radio frequency (RF) signal magnitude for a plurality of RF signals broadcasted in an environment and generating a digital RF heat map of the environment based on each RF signal magnitude. The method includes determining an RF coverage of the environment based on the digital RF heat map and selecting, for a wireless communication device, a communication channel from among a plurality of communication channels based on the RF coverage and one or more RF probability distribution functions.

Radio frequency spectrum management systems and methods in a manufacturing environment

A graph of devices is constructed, each network device serving an amount of bandwidth over the network, each vertex of the graph corresponding to a respective one of the network devices, each edge of the graph connecting network devices by interference weight, such that edges between connected network devices using different channels have an interference weight of zero, and edges between connected network devices using the same channel have an interference weight denoting an amount of interference between the connected network devices. A cell utilization of each of the network devices is determined according to an amount of traffic served by the respective network device compared to a total of the amounts of bandwidth for all network devices. A vehicle requesting bandwidth is assigned to the one of the network devices having a smallest product of cell utilization and maximum interference weight edge.

Interference-aware autonomous vehicle routing among CBSDs

A graph of devices is constructed, each device requiring an amount of bandwidth over the network, each vertex of the graph corresponding to a respective one of the devices, each edge of the graph connecting devices according to a weight denoting interference between the connected devices. The vertices of the graph are labeled with labels such that no two vertices sharing the same edge have the same label, each label requiring bandwidth corresponding to the device of that label requiring the most bandwidth. If the sum of the bandwidth required for the labels exceeds the set bandwidth, the edge of the graph having the least interference is deleted, and the perform the construct and label operations are repeated. If the sum of the bandwidth required for the labels is within the set bandwidth, the bandwidth is assigned to the devices.

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Novi, MI, United States of America

Mohammad Nekoui