Autonomous Vehicle Alighting Position Options for Occupant Preference
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Solution Overview
Problem
In autonomous driving systems, occupants often desire a specific alighting position at the destination, but existing systems lack the ability to accurately reflect this desire, offering limited options for setting the alighting position.
Innovation Solution
An alighting position setting device and autonomous driving system that presents occupants with multiple options, including automatic and manual setting choices, allowing them to select their preferred alighting position based on pre-defined candidates, ensuring the alighting position reflects the occupant's desire.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple options for alighting position are presented to the occupant, then the ability to reflect occupant's desire is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alighting position setting function is segmented into multiple discrete options (automatic setting option, manual setting option, and various specific position options). This segmentation allows the system to present manageable choices to the occupant without overwhelming complexity, while still providing comprehensive coverage of possible alighting position requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple alighting position options are set in advance before the vehicle reaches the destination. This preliminary preparation of options reduces the complexity during actual operation, as the system only needs to present pre-defined choices rather than generating and processing unlimited possibilities in real-time.
2Ease of operation
If automatic setting option is provided, then the convenience for the occupant is improved, but the ability to reflect detailed occupant's desire may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts between automatic and manual setting modes based on occupant needs. The automatic setting option provides convenience by making decisions without occupant input, while the manual setting option allows detailed customization when desired. This dynamic flexibility resolves the contradiction by allowing the system to switch between automation levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The automatic setting option enables the system to serve itself by autonomously determining the alighting position without requiring occupant intervention. This self-service capability improves convenience while the available manual options ensure that detailed occupant desires can still be expressed when needed.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual setting option is provided, then the occupant's desire can be more appropriately reflected, but the ease of operation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The manual setting option provides detailed control for cases where precise occupant desire reflection is needed, even though it requires more effort. This partial action approach allows the system to offer comprehensive manual control when necessary, while the automatic option handles routine cases, balancing ease of operation with adaptability.
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AI summary
An alighting position setting device includes an option presentation unit configured to present an occupant of a vehicle with multiple options set in advance relating to a request for an alighting position for a destination when the vehicle in an autonomous driving toward the destination set in advance approaches the destination, an option recognition unit configured to recognize the option selected by the occupant from the multiple options, and an alighting position setting unit configured to set an alighting position based on the request for the alighting position corresponding to the option selected by the occupant.