CN113010192A

CN113010192A - Software updating method, software updating system, diagnosis device and management and control platform

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Publication number: CN113010192A
Application number: CN201911312122.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 闫东东
Original assignee: Qoros Automotive Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qoros Automotive Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-18
Filing date: 2019-12-18
Publication date: 2021-06-22

Abstract

The invention provides a software updating method, a software updating system, a diagnosis device and a control platform, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring identification information of a vehicle to be updated; the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform sends the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform; receiving a software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated, which is sent by the vehicle software control platform, wherein the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; and updating the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated. Therefore, automatic updating of the electric control unit to be updated is achieved, the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

Description

Software updating method, software updating system, diagnosis device and management and control platform

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of vehicles, in particular to a software updating method of a vehicle-mounted electric control unit, a software updating system of the vehicle-mounted electric control unit, a diagnosis device, a vehicle information comprehensive control platform and a vehicle software control platform.

Background

At present, the electric control units on the automobile mostly adopt CAN bus communication counting, and along with the improvement of the electronization degree of the automobile, the electric control units on the automobile are more and more, the software functions are more and more complex, and the software updating frequency is more and more high. When the software of the electric control unit is updated, an engineer is usually required to obtain the states of the software and hardware versions of each electric control unit of the entire vehicle to determine whether the software of the electric control unit is to be updated and to confirm the final update version.

The applicant finds that, in the related art, a large amount of human resources need to be consumed in a manual updating manner, and errors are prone to occur, for example, when the software of the electronic control unit of the automobile is updated, usually a plurality of electronic control units are to be updated simultaneously, at this time, due to the limitation of the manual manner, errors are prone to occur in software updating, and even the software of the electronic control unit after updating is not matched with the hardware.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving, at least to some extent, one of the technical problems in the related art.

Therefore, a first objective of the present invention is to provide a software updating method for a vehicle-mounted electronic control unit, which can realize automation of software updating of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit, thereby improving efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the vehicle electronic control unit, reducing updating difficulty, and effectively avoiding software updating errors.

The second purpose of the invention is to provide another software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit.

The third purpose of the invention is to provide a software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit.

A fourth object of the invention is to propose a diagnostic device.

The fifth purpose of the invention is to provide a vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform.

The sixth purpose of the invention is to provide a vehicle software management and control platform.

A seventh object of the present invention is to provide a software updating system for an onboard electronic control unit.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the first aspect of the present invention provides a software updating method for an onboard electronic control unit, including: acquiring identification information of a vehicle to be updated; sending the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle information comprehensive control platform, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform sends the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform; receiving a software package corresponding to an electric control unit to be updated, which is sent by the vehicle software control platform, wherein the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; and updating the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

According to the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is obtained, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform sends the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform, and receives a software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated sent by the vehicle software control platform, the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and then software updating is carried out on the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated. Therefore, automatic updating of the electric control unit to be updated is achieved, the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

In addition, the software updating method for the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit according to the above embodiment of the present invention may further have the following additional technical features:

according to one embodiment of the present invention, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit includes: identification information of the electronic control unit, hardware version information of the electronic control unit, and software version information of the electronic control unit.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the software updating method further includes: and sending the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform can store the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated.

In order to achieve the above object, a software updating method for an onboard electronic control unit according to an embodiment of a second aspect of the present invention includes: receiving identification information of a vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnostic equipment; acquiring current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; and sending the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

According to the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated sent by the diagnostic equipment is received, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is obtained, and then the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated. Therefore, automatic management and control of the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated are achieved, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

according to one embodiment of the present invention, the acquiring current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated includes: and acquiring the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated according to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the corresponding relationship between the stored identification information of the vehicle and the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the software updating method further includes: receiving identification information of a vehicle to be updated and updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated, which are sent by the diagnostic equipment; and storing the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated.

In order to achieve the above object, a software updating method for an onboard electronic control unit according to an embodiment of a third aspect of the present invention includes: receiving current characteristic information of an electronic control unit corresponding to identification information of a vehicle to be updated, which is sent by a vehicle information comprehensive control platform; acquiring a software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; and sending the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to a diagnosis device, so that the diagnosis device can update the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

According to the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electric control unit, the current characteristic information of the electric control unit, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform and corresponds to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, is received, the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is obtained according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and then the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is sent to the diagnostic equipment so that the diagnostic equipment can update the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated. Therefore, automatic management and control of the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated are achieved, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the whole electric control unit are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the acquiring a software package corresponding to an electronic control unit to be updated according to current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated includes: determining the electronic control unit to be updated and the software version information to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit; and acquiring a software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated according to the electric control unit to be updated and the software version information to be updated.

To achieve the above object, a diagnostic apparatus according to a fourth aspect of the present invention includes: the first acquisition module is used for acquiring the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; the first sending module is used for sending the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle information comprehensive control platform so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform can send the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform; the first receiving module is used for receiving a software package corresponding to the to-be-updated electronic control unit sent by the vehicle software control platform, wherein the software package corresponding to the to-be-updated electronic control unit is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the to-be-updated vehicle; and the updating module is used for updating the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

According to the diagnostic equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is obtained through the first obtaining module, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform through the first sending module, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform sends the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform, the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated sent by the vehicle software control platform is received through the first receiving module, the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and the software updating is carried out on the electric control unit to be updated through the updating module according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated. Therefore, automatic updating of the electric control unit to be updated is achieved, the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

In order to achieve the above object, a vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform according to an embodiment of a fifth aspect of the present invention includes: the second receiving module is used for receiving the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnosis equipment; the second acquisition module is used for acquiring the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; and the second sending module is used for sending the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

According to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform provided by the embodiment of the invention, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated sent by the diagnostic equipment is received through the second receiving module, the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is obtained through the second obtaining module, and then the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle software control platform through the second sending module, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated. Therefore, automatic management and control of the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated are achieved, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

In order to achieve the above object, a vehicle software management and control platform according to a sixth aspect of the present invention includes: the third receiving module is used for receiving the current characteristic information of the electric control unit, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform and corresponds to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; the third acquisition module is used for acquiring a software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; and the third sending module is used for sending the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment so that the diagnostic equipment can update the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

According to the vehicle software control platform provided by the embodiment of the invention, the current characteristic information of the electric control unit, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform and corresponds to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, is received through the third receiving module, the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is obtained through the third obtaining module according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and then the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is sent to the diagnostic equipment through the third sending module, so that the diagnostic equipment can update the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated. Therefore, automatic management and control of the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated are achieved, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the whole electric control unit are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

To achieve the above object, a seventh embodiment of the present invention provides a software update system for an onboard electronic control unit, including: the system comprises a diagnosis device, a vehicle information comprehensive control platform and a vehicle software control platform.

According to the software updating system of the vehicle-mounted electric control unit, the diagnosis device, the vehicle information comprehensive control platform and the vehicle software control platform of the embodiment are adopted, and the software updating automation of the vehicle-mounted electric control unit can be realized, so that the software updating efficiency and accuracy of the vehicle electric control unit are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and the software updating error is effectively avoided.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a vehicle system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of an in-vehicle electronic control unit according to a first embodiment of the invention;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of the on-vehicle electronic control unit according to the first embodiment of the invention;

fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of an in-vehicle electronic control unit according to a second embodiment of the invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of an on-vehicle electronic control unit according to a third embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of an in-vehicle electronic control unit according to a third embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 7 is a block schematic diagram of a diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of a vehicle software management platform according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a software updating apparatus of an in-vehicle electronic control unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative and intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.

First, before describing the software updating method, the software updating system, the diagnostic apparatus, and the management and control platform according to the embodiment of the invention, the vehicle system according to the embodiment of the invention will be explained.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the vehicle system may include a vehicle 1000 to be updated, a diagnostic apparatus 100, a vehicle information integrated management and control platform 200, and a vehicle software management and control platform 300.

A software updating method, a software updating system, a diagnostic apparatus, and a management and control platform according to an embodiment of the present invention are described below with reference to the drawings.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit according to the first embodiment of the invention.

As shown in fig. 2, the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit includes:

s101, obtaining the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

It should be understood that the Identification information of the Vehicle to be updated may be obtained by the diagnostic device, wherein the Identification information of the Vehicle to be updated may include a VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) code of the Vehicle to be updated, or a code of the engine, etc. which may be used to uniquely identify the Vehicle.

S102, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform sends the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform.

It should be noted that after the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is acquired, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated may be sent to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform through the diagnostic device, so as to acquire, through the vehicle information comprehensive control platform, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

Optionally, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated may include: identification information of the electronic control unit, hardware version information of the electronic control unit and software version information of the electronic control unit.

Specifically, the vehicle information comprehensive control platform can be used for recording identification information of a vehicle to be updated and current characteristic information of all electronic control units, and the vehicle information stored by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform can comprise an area A and an area B, wherein the byte length of the area A is 17 and is used for storing the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and the byte length of the area B can be correspondingly set according to the number of the electronic control units of the vehicle and is used for storing the characteristic information of all the electronic control units.

For example, it is assumed that the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform stores the following byte information: "LSYZDACKX 9K106873BCMHA102SA103BMSHA302SA308 … …", then the area a (first 17 bytes) "LSYZDACKX 9K 106873" represents the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, "BCMHA 102SA 204" in the area B, BCM is the identification information of the electronic control unit for representing the electronic control unit to be updated, a102 is the hardware version information of the electronic control unit for representing the current hardware version of the electronic control unit, a204 is the software version information of the electronic control unit for representing the current software version of the electronic control unit, "BMSHA 302SA 402" in the area B, BMS is the identification information of the electronic control unit for representing the electronic control unit to be updated, a302 is the hardware version information of the electronic control unit for representing the current hardware version of the electronic control unit, a402 is the software version information of the electronic control unit for representing the current software version of the electronic control unit.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, after receiving the VIN code of the vehicle to be updated or the code of the engine sent by the diagnostic device, the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform further obtains the identification information of the electronic control unit, the hardware version information of the electronic control unit, and the software version information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and sends the identification information, the hardware version information, and the software version information to the vehicle software management and control platform.

S103, receiving a software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated sent by the vehicle software control platform, wherein the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

Specifically, the vehicle software management and control platform may be configured to store software and hardware matching information of the electronic control unit and software packages of various versions, so as to determine the electronic control unit of the software to be updated and the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of all vehicles to be updated, which is provided by the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform.

It should be noted that the software and hardware matching information of the electronic control unit stored in the vehicle software management and control platform may include an area a, an area B and an area C, where the byte length of the area a is 3 for storing name information of the electronic control unit, the byte length of the area B is 3 for storing hardware version information, and the byte length of the area C is 3 for storing software version information.

For example, assume that the vehicle software management and control platform stores the following byte information: "BCMHA 203SA 108", then in the area a (first 3-bit byte) "BCM", BCM is used to represent the name of the electronic control unit to be updated, in the area B (3-bit byte) "HA 203", H is used to represent the hardware version, is 1 byte long, and is stored using ASCII code format, a203 is used to represent the hardware target major version as A2, the minor version as 03, and is 2 bytes long, in the area C (3-bit byte) "SA 108", S is used to represent the software version, is 1 byte long, and is stored using ASCII code format, and a108 represents the software target major version as A1, the minor version as 08, and is 2 bytes long.

And S104, updating the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, the diagnostic device may obtain the identification information of the vehicle to be updated in a local communication manner, send the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform in a wireless communication manner, receive the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated and issued by the vehicle software management and control platform, and then complete the software update of the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated.

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the software updating method further includes:

and S105, sending the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electric control unit to be updated to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform stores the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electric control unit to be updated.

It can be understood that after the software of the electronic control unit to be updated is updated through the diagnostic device, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated can be sent to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform through the diagnostic device, so that the vehicle information update of the vehicle information comprehensive control platform is realized.

In summary, according to the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit in the embodiment of the present invention, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is obtained, and the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle information integrated control platform, so that the vehicle information integrated control platform sends the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform, and receives the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated sent by the vehicle software control platform, the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and further, software updating is performed on the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated. Therefore, automatic updating of the electric control unit to be updated is achieved, the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of an onboard electronic control unit according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 4, the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit includes:

s201, receiving identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnosis equipment.

Specifically, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnostic device, may be received by the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform, and the identification information of the vehicle to be updated may include a VIN code of the vehicle to be updated, or a code of the engine, which may be used to uniquely identify the vehicle.

S202, acquiring the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, acquiring the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated includes: and acquiring the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated according to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the corresponding relationship between the stored identification information of the vehicle and the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit.

Optionally, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit may include: identification information of the electronic control unit, hardware version information of the electronic control unit and software version information of the electronic control unit.

For example, if the current characteristic information of the electrical control unit is "BCMHA 102SA 204", BCM is identification information of the electrical control unit for indicating the electrical control unit to be updated, a102 is hardware version information of the electrical control unit for indicating the current hardware version of the electrical control unit, a204 is software version information of the electrical control unit for indicating the current software version of the electrical control unit, and for example, if the current characteristic information of the electrical control unit is "BMSHA 302SA 402", BMS is identification information of the electrical control unit for indicating the electrical control unit to be updated, a302 is hardware version information of the electrical control unit for indicating the current hardware version of the electrical control unit, and a402 is software version information of the electrical control unit for indicating the current software version of the latest state of the electrical control unit.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated may be acquired by the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform according to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the correspondence between the stored identification information of the vehicle and the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit.

S203, sending the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the vehicle information comprehensive control platform may send the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform determines the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and further sends the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated to the diagnostic device, so that the diagnostic device performs software update on the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated.

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the software updating method further includes:

and S204, receiving the identification information of the vehicle to be updated sent by the diagnosis equipment and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated.

It should be understood that, after the diagnostic device performs software update on the to-be-updated electronic control unit according to the software package corresponding to the to-be-updated electronic control unit, the vehicle information comprehensive control platform may receive the identification information of the to-be-updated vehicle and the updated software version information of the to-be-updated electronic control unit.

And S205, storing the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated.

In other words, in the embodiment of the invention, the vehicle information updating of the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform is realized by receiving and storing the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated.

In summary, according to the software updating method for the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit in the embodiment of the present invention, the identification information of the vehicle to be updated sent by the diagnostic device is received, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is obtained, and then the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated is sent to the vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated to the diagnostic device according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated. Therefore, automatic management and control of the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated are achieved, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a software updating method of an onboard electronic control unit according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 5, the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit includes:

s301, receiving the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform and corresponds to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

Specifically, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform, can be received by the vehicle software control platform.

S302, acquiring a software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, acquiring the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated includes:

s3021, determining the electronic control unit to be updated and the software version information to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit.

It should be noted that the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit may include an area a, an area B and an area C, where the byte length of the area a is 3 for storing the name information of the electronic control unit, the byte length of the area B is 3 for storing the hardware version information, and the byte length of the area C is 3 for storing the software version information.

It can be understood that, according to whether the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated matches the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit, to determine whether the electronic control unit needs to be updated, for example, the current feature information of the electronic control unit is "BCMHA 102SA 204", the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit is "BCMHA 203SA 108", at this time, the current hardware version (HA102) and the current software version (SA204) of the electronic control unit do not match the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit (HA203 and SA108), and the electronic control unit needs to be updated, so that the updated hardware and software of the electronic control unit match, otherwise, if the current hardware version and the current software version of the electronic control unit match the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit, no software update of the electronic control unit is necessary.

And S3022, acquiring a software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated according to the electric control unit to be updated and the software version information to be updated.

It can be understood that the software packages of the respective versions can be stored through the vehicle software management and control platform, so that the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated is obtained according to the electronic control unit to be updated and the software version information to be updated.

And S303, sending the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment so that the diagnostic equipment can update the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the invention, the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated can be sent to the diagnostic device through the vehicle software management and control platform, so that the diagnostic device can perform software update on the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated.

In summary, according to the software updating method for the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit in the embodiment of the present invention, the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform and corresponds to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, is received, the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated is obtained according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and then the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated is sent to the diagnostic device, so that the diagnostic device performs software updating on the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated. Therefore, automatic management and control of the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated are achieved, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the whole electric control unit are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

Fig. 7 is a block schematic diagram of a diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention.

As shown in fig. 7, the diagnostic apparatus 100 includes: a first obtaining module 10, a first sending module 11, a first receiving module 12 and an updating module 13.

The first obtaining module 10 is configured to obtain identification information of a vehicle to be updated; the first sending module 11 is configured to send the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform sends the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform; the first receiving module 12 is configured to receive a software package corresponding to an electronic control unit to be updated, which is sent by a vehicle software control platform, where the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to identification information of a vehicle to be updated; the updating module 13 is configured to update the software of the to-be-updated electronic control unit according to the software package corresponding to the to-be-updated electronic control unit.

In particular, in the embodiment of the present invention, the diagnostic apparatus 100 acquires the identification information of the vehicle to be updated by the first acquisition module 10, and sends the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform through the first sending module 11, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform can send the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform, the first receiving module 12 receives the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated, which is sent by the vehicle software control platform, the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and the updating module 13 updates the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

It should be noted that the diagnostic device provided in the fourth aspect of the present invention corresponds to the specific implementation manner of the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit provided in the first aspect of the present invention, and details are not described herein again.

In conclusion, according to the diagnostic equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention, the automatic updating of the electric control unit to be updated can be realized, so that the efficiency and the accuracy of the software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and the software updating error is effectively avoided.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform according to an embodiment of the invention.

As shown in fig. 8, the vehicle information integrated management and control platform 200 includes: a second receiving module 20, a second obtaining module 21 and a second sending module 22.

The second receiving module 20 is configured to receive identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnostic device; the second obtaining module 21 is configured to obtain current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; the second sending module 22 is configured to send the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated to the diagnostic device according to the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform 200 receives the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnostic device, through the second receiving module 20, and obtains the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated through the second obtaining module 21, and further sends the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to the vehicle software management and control platform through the second sending module 22, so that the vehicle software management and control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated to the diagnostic device according to the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

It should be noted that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform provided in the fifth aspect of the present invention corresponds to the specific implementation manner of the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit provided in the second aspect of the present invention, and details are not repeated herein.

In conclusion, according to the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform provided by the embodiment of the invention, automatic management and control of the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated can be realized, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electronic control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and software updating errors are effectively avoided.

Fig. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a vehicle software management platform according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 9, the vehicle software management and control platform 300 includes: a third receiving module 30, a third obtaining module 31 and a third sending module 32. The third receiving module 30 is configured to receive current feature information of the electronic control unit, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform and corresponds to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; the third obtaining module 31 is configured to obtain a software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated; the third sending module 32 is configured to send the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated to the diagnostic device, so that the diagnostic device performs software update on the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated.

Specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, the vehicle software management and control platform 300 receives, through the third receiving module 30, the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform, obtains, through the third obtaining module 31, the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current feature information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, and further sends, through the third sending module 32, the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated to the diagnostic device, so that the diagnostic device performs software update on the electronic control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated.

It should be noted that the vehicle software management and control platform 300 provided in the sixth aspect of the present invention corresponds to the specific implementation manner of the software updating method of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit provided in the third aspect of the present invention, and details are not described herein again.

In conclusion, according to the vehicle software management and control platform provided by the embodiment of the invention, automatic management and control of the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated can be realized, so that the efficiency and accuracy of software updating of the electric control unit of the whole vehicle are improved, the updating difficulty is reduced, and errors in software updating are effectively avoided.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the invention also provides a corresponding software updating system 2000 of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 10, a software updating system 2000 of an on-board electronic control unit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a diagnostic device 100 according to an embodiment of the fourth aspect, a vehicle information comprehensive management and control platform 200 according to an embodiment of the fifth aspect, and a vehicle software management and control platform 300 according to an embodiment of the sixth aspect, and may implement specific embodiments corresponding to the methods according to the embodiments of the first aspect to the third aspect one to one.

Since the software updating system of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit introduced in the embodiment of the present invention is a software updating system of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit adopted to implement the method of the foregoing embodiment of the present invention, based on the method introduced in the foregoing embodiment of the present invention, a person skilled in the art can understand the specific structure and the deformation of the software updating system of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit, and thus details are not described here. The software updating system of the vehicle-mounted electronic control unit adopted by the method in the embodiment of the invention belongs to the protection scope of the invention.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

Any process or method descriptions in flow charts or otherwise described herein may be understood as representing modules, segments, or portions of code which include one or more executable instructions for implementing steps of a custom logic function or process, and alternate implementations are included within the scope of the preferred embodiment of the present invention in which functions may be executed out of order from that shown or discussed, including substantially concurrently or in reverse order, depending on the functionality involved, as would be understood by those reasonably skilled in the art of the present invention.

The logic and/or steps represented in the flowcharts or otherwise described herein, e.g., an ordered listing of executable instructions that can be considered to implement logical functions, can be embodied in any computer-readable medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, such as a computer-based system, processor-containing system, or other system that can fetch the instructions from the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device and execute the instructions. For the purposes of this description, a "computer-readable medium" can be any means that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer-readable medium would include the following: an electrical connection (electronic device) having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette (magnetic device), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber device, and a portable compact disc read-only memory (CDROM). Additionally, the computer-readable medium could even be paper or another suitable medium upon which the program is printed, as the program can be electronically captured, via for instance optical scanning of the paper or other medium, then compiled, interpreted or otherwise processed in a suitable manner if necessary, and then stored in a computer memory.

It should be understood that portions of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof. In the above embodiments, the various steps or methods may be implemented in software or firmware stored in memory and executed by a suitable instruction execution system. If implemented in hardware, as in another embodiment, any one or combination of the following techniques, which are known in the art, may be used: a discrete logic circuit having a logic gate circuit for implementing a logic function on a data signal, an application specific integrated circuit having an appropriate combinational logic gate circuit, a Programmable Gate Array (PGA), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or the like.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps carried by the method for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware related to instructions of a program, which may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and when the program is executed, the program includes one or a combination of the steps of the method embodiments.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing module, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode. The integrated module, if implemented in the form of a software functional module and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium.

The storage medium mentioned above may be a read-only memory, a magnetic or optical disk, etc. Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A software updating method of a vehicle-mounted electronic control unit is characterized by comprising the following steps:

acquiring identification information of a vehicle to be updated;

sending the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle information comprehensive control platform, so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform sends the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform;

receiving a software package corresponding to an electric control unit to be updated, which is sent by the vehicle software control platform, wherein the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated;

and updating the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

2. The software updating method according to claim 1, wherein the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit comprises:

identification information of the electronic control unit, hardware version information of the electronic control unit, and software version information of the electronic control unit.

3. The software updating method according to claim 1, further comprising:

and sending the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated to the vehicle information comprehensive control platform so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform can store the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated.

4. A software updating method of a vehicle-mounted electronic control unit is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving identification information of a vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnostic equipment;

acquiring current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated;

and sending the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

5. The software updating method according to claim 4, wherein the acquiring of the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated includes:

and acquiring the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated according to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the corresponding relationship between the stored identification information of the vehicle and the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit.

6. The software updating method according to claim 4, wherein the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit comprises:

7. The software updating method according to claim 5, further comprising:

receiving identification information of a vehicle to be updated and updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated, which are sent by the diagnostic equipment;

and storing the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the updated software version information of the electronic control unit to be updated.

8. A software updating method of a vehicle-mounted electronic control unit is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving current characteristic information of an electronic control unit corresponding to identification information of a vehicle to be updated, which is sent by a vehicle information comprehensive control platform;

acquiring a software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated;

and sending the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to a diagnosis device, so that the diagnosis device can update the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

9. The software updating method according to claim 8, wherein the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit comprises:

10. The software updating method according to claim 9, wherein the acquiring the software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated includes:

determining the electronic control unit to be updated and the software version information to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated and the stored matching information of the hardware version information and the software version information of the electronic control unit;

and acquiring a software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated according to the electric control unit to be updated and the software version information to be updated.

11. A diagnostic device, comprising:

the first acquisition module is used for acquiring the identification information of the vehicle to be updated;

the first sending module is used for sending the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle information comprehensive control platform so that the vehicle information comprehensive control platform can send the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform;

the first receiving module is used for receiving a software package corresponding to the to-be-updated electronic control unit sent by the vehicle software control platform, wherein the software package corresponding to the to-be-updated electronic control unit is determined by the vehicle software control platform according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the to-be-updated vehicle;

and the updating module is used for updating the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

12. The utility model provides a management and control platform is synthesized to vehicle information which characterized in that includes:

the second receiving module is used for receiving the identification information of the vehicle to be updated, which is sent by the diagnosis equipment;

the second acquisition module is used for acquiring the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated;

and the second sending module is used for sending the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated to a vehicle software control platform, so that the vehicle software control platform sends the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment according to the current characteristic information of the electric control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated.

13. A vehicle software management and control platform, comprising:

the third receiving module is used for receiving the current characteristic information of the electric control unit, which is sent by the vehicle information comprehensive control platform and corresponds to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated;

the third acquisition module is used for acquiring a software package corresponding to the electronic control unit to be updated according to the current characteristic information of the electronic control unit corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to be updated;

and the third sending module is used for sending the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated to the diagnostic equipment so that the diagnostic equipment can update the software of the electric control unit to be updated according to the software package corresponding to the electric control unit to be updated.

14. A software update system for a vehicle-mounted electronic control unit, comprising: the diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11, the vehicle information integrated management and control platform according to claim 12, and the vehicle software management and control platform according to claim 13.