Volvo Truck Corporation

Volvo Autonomous Solutions Ab

Petter Wirfält

Fredrik Sandblom

Stefan Bergquist

Wilhelm Wiberg

Henrik Gullvén

Chao Li

Magnus Rindeberg

Henrik Kaijser

A method is provided for vehicle identification, which method includes the steps of: an ego vehicle detecting a communicating vehicle by wireless vehicle to vehicle communication; the ego vehicle detecting a nearby vehicle by a sensor onboard the ego vehicle; the ego vehicle sending an identification request to the communicating vehicle by wireless vehicle to vehicle communication, wherein the identification request instructs the communicating vehicle to perform an action; the ego vehicle determining whether or not the nearby vehicle performed the action based at least on data from the sensor; and if the ego vehicle determines that the nearby vehicle performed the action, the ego vehicle determining that the communicating vehicle and the nearby vehicle are the same vehicle.

Method for vehicle identification

Growing community of inventors

Hindås, Sweden

Petter Wirfält