Adaptive Trailer Configuration Using User and Activity Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional trailers lack the ability to dynamically adjust their configuration based on user profiles and activity requirements, limiting their adaptability for different uses and activities.
Innovation Solution
A user-configurable trailer system that dynamically adjusts its dimensions, surfaces, and settings in real-time based on user profiles and activity profiles, using sensors, computer vision, and predictive modeling to accommodate various activities, allowing for customizable configurations for different uses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional trailers use fixed customization configurations, then manufacturing and setup are simpler, but adaptability to different user needs and activities is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The trailer employs dynamic reconfiguration capabilities where slideout components, leveling jacks, and other structural elements can be automatically adjusted based on detected user profiles and activity types. Sensors and processors enable the trailer to transition between different configuration states, transforming a static structure into an adaptive system that responds to user needs in real-time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes physical parameters of the trailer including dimensions, orientation, and component positions based on detected conditions. The processor modifies trailer configuration parameters such as slideout extension distances, leveling jack positions, and surface orientations to optimize the trailer for specific activities and user preferences.
2Ease of operation
If the trailer dynamically adjusts configuration based on user profiles and activity detection, then adaptability and user experience improve, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The trailer performs self-configuration by automatically detecting user profiles through sensors, identifying activity types, and adjusting its own components without manual intervention. The system serves itself by making autonomous decisions about configuration changes, eliminating the need for users to manually adjust complex settings and reducing the operational burden on end-users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates sensor networks that continuously monitor trailer conditions, user presence, and activity characteristics, feeding this information back to the processor which then makes real-time configuration adjustments. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the trailer to adapt dynamically to changing conditions and optimize its configuration based on actual usage patterns.
3Measurement precision
If the trailer uses multiple sensors and detection systems to identify user needs and activities, then configuration accuracy improves, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor system is designed with multi-functionality where individual sensors serve multiple detection purposes. For example, sensors can detect both user presence and activity type, or monitor both trailer levelness and component positions simultaneously. This universal approach reduces the total number of sensors needed compared to having dedicated sensors for each function, thereby simplifying manufacturing while maintaining detection accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, coordinate dynamic adjustments of a trailer based in part on a user profile associated with a user physically present at the trailer and an activity profile associated with an activity selected to be performed at the trailer. A dynamic adjustment may modify a tilt of a lower surface of the trailer. A dynamic adjustment may modify a dimension(s) of the trailer based in part on a detected object(s). Various dynamic adjustments may occur concurrently, individually and/or sequentially. The trailer may be a moveable trailer for temporary attachment with a vehicle.