Adaptive Trip Plan Management for Multi-Entity Vehicle Coordination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle trip plan management solutions are deficient in dynamically updating trip plans based on changing circumstances and lack efficient methods for managing multiple trip plan service provider responsibilities, leading to high operating costs and excess technological resource consumption.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system for adaptive trip activity and data security management, which enables the execution of various trip activities associated with multiple entities by a vehicle during a trip plan. This involves receiving trip activity requests, generating trip activities and plans, creating rule sets, and encrypting data based on entity-selected models, allowing for dynamic updates and efficient resource utilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If a single vehicle executes trip plans for multiple entities, then resource utilization improves and operating costs reduce, but trip plan complexity and management difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperating costsVSAvoidtrip plan management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments trip plans into independent trip activities, where each activity can be individually managed, executed, and monitored. This allows multiple entities' requirements to be broken down into discrete tasks that can be handled separately within a unified trip plan framework, reducing management complexity while enabling multi-entity service consolidation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The trip plan management system is designed with universal functionality to handle diverse trip activities for multiple entities through a single unified interface. The system can accommodate different entity requirements, activity types, and execution conditions using common infrastructure, thereby reducing operating costs while managing complexity through standardized processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If trip plans are dynamically updated based on changing circumstances, then adaptability improves, but system complexity and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrip plan adaptabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements dynamic trip plan updates by allowing modification of trip activities based on changing conditions such as weather, traffic, or entity requirements. The trip plan structure supports real-time adjustments to activity parameters, timing, and execution conditions without requiring complete plan redesign, enabling adaptability while controlling complexity through incremental modification capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor trip execution status, environmental conditions, and entity responses in real-time. This feedback drives automatic or manual updates to trip activities, allowing the system to adapt to changing circumstances based on actual performance data and external inputs, improving adaptability through information-driven adjustments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If entities control their own trip activities and data privacy, then data security improves, but system coordination complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata securityVSAvoidcoordination complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary layer between entities and the trip execution system, where entities can specify their data privacy requirements and activity control preferences through standardized interfaces. This intermediary manages the coordination of multiple entities' requirements, translating individual preferences into coordinated trip activities while maintaining security boundaries, thereby improving data security without exposing entities to direct coordination complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Productivity

If multiple trip activities are consolidated into a single trip plan, then productivity improves, but trip plan feasibility determination becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrip execution efficiencyVSAvoidfeasibility assessment difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments consolidated trip plans into discrete trip activities with individual feasibility criteria. Each activity can be independently assessed for feasibility based on its specific requirements, resources, and constraints, while the overall trip plan benefits from the productivity gains of consolidation. This segmentation enables systematic feasibility evaluation of complex multi-activity plans

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20250173631A1Multi-entity adaptive trip activity and data security management system
Publication Date: 2025.05.29 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC
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AI summary

Embodiments described herein provide a trip plan management system configured to facilitate the execution of various trip activities associated with multiple respective entities by a vehicle. Embodiments may receive a plurality of trip activity requests and generate a plurality of trip activities. Embodiments may also generate a trip plan based on the plurality of trip activities based on a plurality of trip activity parameters associated with each respective trip activity. Embodiments may also generate at least a first rule set based on the plurality of trip activities, where the first rule set is generated based on at least one of a condition set or an action sequence associated with at least one trip activity of the plurality of trip activities. Embodiments may also cause the vehicle to execute the trip plan based on the first rule set by inputting the trip plan and the first rule set into the vehicle.