Vehicle road side identification of a target via differential amplitude RF signals
In one embodiment, a vehicle side target location method includes receiving a request, via a first wireless connection, for the vehicle to travel to a location, in response to the vehicle being less than a predetermined distance from the location, receiving RF packets, via a second wireless connection having a multiple antenna radio frequency (RF) transceiver having an identification (ID), from a target at the location, identifying packets based on the ID of the RF transceiver, extracting channel state information (CSI) from received signals associated with the identified packets, determining an amplitude difference of subcarriers of the received signals between each of the multiple antennae, filtering noise of the amplitude difference of subcarriers based on subcarrier selection to obtain multiple robust amplitude difference signals, and feeding the multiple robust amplitude difference signals to a classifier to obtain a side of the vehicle associated with the location of the target.
1. A system for a vehicle comprising:
a multiple antenna radio frequency (RF) transceiver having an identification (ID); and
a processor coupled with the RF transceiver and configured to:
receive a request, via a first wireless connection, for the vehicle to travel to a location,
in response to the vehicle being less than a predetermined distance from the location, receive RF packets, via a second wireless connection, from a target at the location,
identify packets based on the ID of the RF transceiver,
extract channel state information (CSI) from received signals associated with the identified packets,
determine an amplitude difference of subcarriers of the received signals between each of the multiple antennae,
filter noise of the amplitude difference of subcarriers based on subcarrier selection to obtain multiple robust amplitude difference signals,
feed the multiple robust amplitude difference signals to a long short-term memory (LSTM) classifier; and
execute the LSTM classifier on the multiple robust amplitude difference signals to obtain a side of the vehicle associated with the location of the target.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the subcarrier selection is all received subcarriers.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the subcarrier selection is based on a variance of amplitude differences of received subcarriers to obtain selected subcarriers, and wherein the multiple robust amplitude difference signals is an average amplitude difference of the selected subcarriers.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first wireless connection is via satellite or cellular, and the second wireless connection is via 802.11 (Wi-Fi), Ultra-Wide Band (UWB), or 2.4 GHz frequency band (BT).
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the multiple antenna RF transceiver includes three antennae.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the target is configured as an access point and the RF transceiver is configured as a client to the target.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the RF transceiver is configured as an access point and the target is configured as a client to the RF transceiver.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the RF transceiver selects a channel and band based on RF traffic to minimize interference and transmits the channel and band to the target via the first wireless connection.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the RF transceiver is configured to monitor an ID, channel, and band associated with the target.
10. A vehicle side target location method comprising:
receiving a request, via a first wireless connection, for the vehicle to travel to a location;
in response to the vehicle being less than a predetermined distance from the location, receiving RF packets, via a second wireless connection having a multiple antenna radio frequency (RF) transceiver having an identification (ID), from a target at the location;
identifying packets based on the ID of the RF transceiver;
extracting channel state information (CSI) from received signals associated with the identified packets;
determining an amplitude difference of subcarriers of the received signals between each of the multiple antennae;
filtering noise of the amplitude difference of subcarriers based on subcarrier selection to obtain multiple robust amplitude difference signals; and
feeding the multiple robust amplitude difference signals to a long short-term memory (LSTM); and
executing the LSTM classifier on the multiple robust amplitude difference signals to obtain a side of the vehicle associated with the location of the target.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the subcarrier selection is all received subcarriers.
12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the subcarrier selection is based on a variance of amplitude differences of received subcarriers to obtain selected subcarriers, and wherein the multiple robust amplitude difference signals is an average amplitude difference of the selected subcarriers.
13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the multi antenna RF transceiver in configured to support at least one of satellite, cellular, 802.11 (Wi-Fi), Ultra-Wide Band (UWB), and 2.4 GHz frequency band (BT).
14. A system for performing lane selection associated with control of a vehicle, the system comprising:
a multiple antenna radio frequency (RF) transceiver having an identification (ID);
a processor; and
a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
receive a request, via a first wireless connection, for the vehicle to travel to a location,
in response to the vehicle being less than a predetermined distance from the location, receive RF packets, via a second wireless connection, from a target at the location,
identify packets based on the ID of the RF transceiver,
extract channel state information (CSI) from received signals associated with the identified packets,
determine an amplitude difference of subcarriers of the received signals between each of the multiple antennae,
filter noise of the amplitude difference of subcarriers based on subcarrier selection to obtain multiple robust amplitude difference signals,
feed the multiple robust amplitude difference signals to a long short-term memory (LSTM) classifier,
execute the LSTM classifier on the multiple robust amplitude difference signals to obtain a side of the vehicle associated with the location of the target, and
operate the vehicle to navigate the vehicle to a lane associated with the side of the vehicle.
15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the subcarrier selection is all received subcarriers.
16. The system of claim 14 , wherein the subcarrier selection is based on a variance of amplitude differences of received subcarriers to obtain selected subcarriers, and wherein the multiple robust amplitude difference signals is an average amplitude difference of the selected subcarriers.
17. The system of claim 14 , wherein the multi antenna RF transceiver in configured to support at least one of 802.11 (Wi-Fi), Ultra-Wide Band (UWB), and 2.4 GHz frequency band (BT).
18. The system of claim 14 , further comprising 3 antennae coupled with the RF transceiver.
19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the LSTM classifier comprises:
an input layer configured to receive the multiple robust amplitude difference signals;
one or more LSTM layers, each LSTM layer comprising a plurality of hidden units configured to process the input signals and capture temporal dependencies;
a fully connected layer configured to receive the output from the one or more LSTM layers and generate a classification output; and
a softmax layer configured to convert the classification output into a probability distribution indicating the side of the vehicle associated with the location of the target.
20. The system of claim 19 , wherein at least one of the one or more LSTM layers further comprises:
a memory cell configured to accumulate at least some channel state information over time;
an input gate configured to control which of the channel state information over time is saved to the memory cell;
a forget gate configured to control which of the channel state information over time is forgotten by the memory cell; and
an output gate configured to control which of the channel state information over time is output by the LSTM layer.