Adaptive Exterior Lighting Wavelength Control for Autonomous Machines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle lighting systems are limited to fixed brightness and wavelength, failing to adapt to varying environmental conditions, weather, and driving objectives, thus compromising safety and user experience.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a vehicle system with multi-wavelength light emitters and a vehicle control system that adjusts brightness and wavelength characteristics based on environmental conditions and driving objectives, using sensors to enhance visibility, safety, and user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fixed brightness and wavelength lighting is used, then the lighting system is simple and reliable, but it cannot adapt to varying environmental conditions and weather
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the lighting system adjustable and adaptive rather than fixed. The control system dynamically modifies brightness and wavelength characteristics based on real-time environmental conditions, weather, and driving objectives, transforming a static lighting system into a dynamic one that responds to changing conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements parameter changes by varying the brightness and wavelength characteristics of exterior lights according to different environmental conditions. The system can adjust these optical parameters to optimize visibility and sensor performance for specific conditions such as nighttime, fog, rain, or snowy weather.
2Reliability
If predetermined lighting characteristics are used, then the lighting system is easy to control, but it compromises safety and user experience in various environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs feedback mechanisms where perception sensor devices provide information about environmental conditions to the control system. The control system uses this feedback to automatically adjust lighting characteristics, ensuring optimal safety and visibility without requiring manual intervention from the driver.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting system performs self-service by automatically adapting to environmental conditions without driver input. The control system autonomously determines the appropriate brightness and wavelength settings based on sensor data, eliminating the need for manual lighting control while maintaining safety.
3Measurement precision
If fixed wavelength lighting is used, then the lighting system is simple, but it does not optimize perception sensor performance in different conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by using multi-wavelength light emitters that can emit different wavelengths targeted at specific perception sensors. Different wavelength ranges (visible, infrared, ultraviolet) can be selectively activated to optimize the performance of specific sensor types, with each wavelength serving a particular sensing function.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances driver and passenger safety, improves user experience, and optimizes perception sensor performance by dynamically controlling exterior lights according to environmental conditions and driving scenarios.
Implementation Method 1
The exterior lights may include an array of multi-wavelength light emitters (e.g., light emitting diodes (LEDs), ultraviolet (UV) bulbs, or infrared (IR) bulbs)
Data Source
AI summary
Enhanced human interface lighting for autonomous machines is described. In one or more implementations, a system includes perception sensor devices (e.g., camera systems, radar systems, lidar systems) to obtain environmental condition information for the environment around a vehicle. A vehicle control system controls the brightness or wavelength characteristics for one or more exterior lights of the vehicle based on the environmental condition information. In this way, the system improves driver and passenger safety, enhances the experience and safety of humans interacting with the vehicle, and improves the perception characteristics of the perception sensor devices.