IP Library Granted Patent US 12,304,405
Granted Patent B2
US 12,304,405 · App. 18/722,323 · Granted May 20, 2025

Method for predicting the energy requirements of a motor vehicle

Inventors: Daniel Brauneis (Passau, DE); Julian Müller (Deckenpfronn, DE); Roland Lindbüchl (Böblingen, DE); Simone König (Ellwangen, DE)
Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
B60R16/03B60W40/12B60W50/0097
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Patent No.
US 12,304,405
App. No.
18/722,323
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The energy requirement of a motor vehicle is predicted using an artificial functional model generated or trained by an artificial intelligence of a motor vehicle model. The energy requirement of a motor vehicle is predicted using a data recorder arranged on a data bus of the motor vehicle recording bus data communicated via the data bus. An artificial functional model previously generated or trained is provided on the motor vehicle and supplied with the recorded bus data of the motor vehicle. The artificial functional model then provides predicted total power requirement data, which represent the predicted total power requirement of the motor vehicle or the predicted power requirement of individual components of the motor vehicle.

Claims (20)

1. A method for predicting energy requirements of a motor vehicle, the method comprising:

1) Generating or training an artificial intelligence model by an artificial intelligence of a motor vehicle model by

detecting, by measuring sensors arranged on power fuses of the motor vehicle model, a power requirement of the motor vehicle model and providing power requirement data representing the detected power requirement;

recording, by at least one data recorder arranged on a data bus of the motor vehicle, bus data;

time-synchronizing the bus data and power requirement data storing the time-synchronized bus data and power requirements in a memory as training data;

providing the training data to the artificial intelligence of the motor vehicle model;

generating or training, by the artificial intelligence, the artificial intelligence model based on the stored, time-synchronized bus data and power requirement data, wherein the artificial intelligence model represents a correlation between the stored, time-synchronized bus data and the power requirement data; and

2) predicting the energy requirements of the motor vehicle by

recording, by at least one data recorder arranged on a data bus of the motor vehicle while the motor vehicle is operating, bus data communicated via the data bus of the motor vehicle;

providing, by the at least one data recorder arranged on a data bus of the motor vehicle, the bus data of the operating motor vehicle,

providing the artificial intelligence model generated or trained according to step 1) on the motor vehicle;

supplying the artificial intelligence model generated or trained according to step 1) that is provided on the motor vehicle with the bus data of the operating motor vehicle;

determining and providing, by the artificial intelligence model generated or trained according to step 1) that is provided on the motor vehicle, predicted total power requirement data representing a predicted total power requirement of the motor vehicle or a total of predicted power requirements of individual power fuses or electrical consumers of the motor vehicle,

updating the artificial intelligence model, using the provided bus data of the motor vehicle, during the generation or training of the artificial intelligence according to step 1) or during the predicting of the energy requirements of the motor vehicle according to step 2), wherein the provided bus data of the motor vehicle contain total power requirement data representing an actual total power requirement of the motor vehicle;

providing, by the artificial intelligence model, the predicted total power requirement data;

comparing the total power requirement data with the predicted total power requirement data to determine a deviation between the total power requirement data and the predicted total power requirement data; and

minimizing, by the artificial intelligence model when the total power requirement data deviates from the predicted total power requirement data, the deviation between the total power requirement data and the predicted total power requirement data.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predicted total power requirement data are provided to or used on a control unit of the motor vehicle or a development environment.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predicted total power requirement data of the motor vehicle are provided or used at a backend, which is a server that is at a stationary location remote from the motor vehicle.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the artificial intelligence model is an artificial neural network, a regression model, or an alternative machine learning model.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 8, 2024
From: BRAUNEIS, DANIEL; MÜLLER, JULIAN; LINDBÜCHL, ROLAND; KÖNIG, SIMONE
To: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
Reel/Frame 067922/0520 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2021 006 280.9 · Dec 21, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240416853A1 · Dec 19, 2024
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