3D Virtual Map Integration for Real-Time Environmental Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack an efficient method to integrate real-time sensing and mapping of environmental conditions in complex spaces, such as hazardous environments, to facilitate autonomous navigation and monitoring of instruments, while providing detailed information for decision-making.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that integrates virtual mapping with real-time sensing data acquisition, allowing for the display of environmental conditions on a virtual map, enabling autonomous navigation and instrument management, and detection of abnormalities based on threshold comparisons.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If real-time sensing and mapping of environmental conditions is implemented in complex spaces, then monitoring capability and navigation accuracy are improved, but system complexity and computational load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the complex monitoring task into separate functional modules: a sensing unit that collects environmental data, a mapping unit that processes and integrates the data, and a display unit that presents the information. This segmentation allows each module to specialize in specific functions, improving measurement precision while managing system complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an information processing apparatus as an intermediary between the sensing units and the display system. This intermediary processes raw sensing data, integrates it with map information, and presents processed environmental conditions, thereby reducing the computational burden on individual components while maintaining high monitoring accuracy.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple sensors and instruments are deployed in hazardous environments, then data collection capability is improved, but difficulty of operation and system management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The information processing apparatus serves multiple functions simultaneously: it manages multiple sensing units, processes diverse environmental data types, maintains virtual maps, and provides user interfaces for monitoring. This multi-functionality consolidates the management of numerous sensors and instruments into a single system, improving data collection capability while simplifying operation through unified control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements automatic data processing and integration capabilities where the information processing apparatus autonomously manages the coordination between multiple sensors, processes incoming data streams, and updates the virtual environmental map without requiring manual intervention for each sensing operation, thereby easing system management.
3Loss of information
If detailed environmental map information is generated and displayed, then decision-making information availability is improved, but information processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates and maintains virtual environmental maps that organize spatial and environmental data in advance. By having the map structure prepared beforehand and continuously updated in the background, the system can quickly retrieve and display relevant environmental information when needed for decision-making, reducing processing time while maintaining comprehensive information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The display unit selectively presents essential environmental information from the comprehensive virtual map based on current navigation needs and user requirements. Rather than displaying all available data simultaneously, the system provides partial information that is most relevant to immediate decision-making, reducing processing and display time while maintaining information availability for critical parameters.
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AI summary
There is provided an information processing apparatus in which a processor executes acquiring a three-dimensional virtual map corresponding to a real space in which a moving object moves, acquiring sense information acquired by the moving object in the real space, and causing the sense information to be displayed on the virtual map.