Daisy chain network of sensors

A method implemented by a sensor system on a vehicle, the method comprising:

• assembling sensors in a daisy chain communication network;
• connecting a controller to at least one of the sensors;
• detecting, by the controller, a single-point failure between two neighboring sensors based on a difference in a throughput of data transmission between the two neighboring sensors and a throughput of data transmission between one of the two neighboring sensors and an adjacent sensor;
• in response to detecting the single-point failure between two neighboring sensors, determining, by the controller, whether the data transmission is unidirectional;
• in response to the data transmission being unidirectional, reversing, by the controller, a direction of data transmission such that data which was previously transmitted in a direction from a first sensor of the neighboring sensors to a second sensor of the neighboring sensors becomes transmitted in a reverse direction from the second sensor to the first sensor;
• receiving first and second timestamps and first and second packets from the first and second sensors;
• appending the first packet and the second packet;
• adjusting the appended first and second packet based on a first duration consumed in analyzing a first header of the first packet, a second duration consumed in analyzing a second header of the second packet, a third duration consumed in appending the first packet and the second packet, a fourth duration consumed in storing the first packet at the first sensor, and a fifth duration consumed in storing the second packet at the second sensor;
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• operating the vehicle and the daisy chain communication network, by the controller, based on data from the sensors.