Automatic Parking Control for Double-Parked Vehicle Relocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Double-parked vehicles pose challenges as they may be moved by other drivers to exit a parking space, leading to difficulties in finding the original vehicle and inefficient use of available parking spaces, with the host vehicle often left in an inappropriate location even when an empty space becomes available.
Innovation Solution
An automatic parking control apparatus comprising a vehicle state determiner, movement detector, and parking space detector that determines if a host vehicle is double-parked, detects movement, and calculates a travel path to park the vehicle in an available space, ensuring the vehicle is safely and accurately relocated.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a host vehicle is double-parked in neutral gear to allow another vehicle to exit, then the other vehicle can leave the parking space, but the host vehicle may be moved to an unknown location and cannot automatically return when a parking space becomes available
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of the double-parked state by monitoring gear position (neutral) and startup state (off) before any movement occurs. This preliminary identification enables the system to prepare for automatic return operations, ensuring the host vehicle can be automatically relocated when conditions permit, thus improving ease of finding the vehicle without requiring complex real-time decision-making during the actual return maneuver.
Solution Approach 2:
The movement detector continuously monitors the host vehicle's position and provides feedback to the controller. When the vehicle is moved from its initial double-parked location, the detector generates a signal that triggers the parking space detector to search for available spaces. This feedback mechanism ensures the system responds dynamically to the vehicle's displacement, automatically guiding it back to a known location and improving traceability without requiring manual intervention.
2Productivity
If the host vehicle remains double-parked even when a parking space is available, then the vehicle occupies an inappropriate location, but manually relocating it requires driver intervention and time
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables the host vehicle to automatically detect available parking spaces and navigate to them without driver intervention. The controller autonomously controls the vehicle to move from the double-parked location to the detected parking space, allowing the vehicle to serve itself in optimizing its parking position. This self-service capability improves parking space utilization efficiency while eliminating the time loss associated with manual relocation operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the vehicle's parking status based on real-time conditions. When a parking space becomes available, the system transitions the vehicle from a static double-parked state to an active relocation mode, automatically navigating to the new position. This dynamic response ensures continuous optimization of parking space utilization without requiring the driver to continuously monitor and manually adjust the vehicle's position.
3Reliability
If the host vehicle is moved by another driver to exit a parking space, then the other vehicle can leave, but the host vehicle's new position becomes unknown and difficult to locate
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes a baseline record of the host vehicle's initial position and state before any external movement occurs. By detecting the startup state as off and recording the initial location, the system creates a reference point that enables subsequent tracking. This preliminary action ensures that even when the vehicle is moved by another driver, the system can identify the displacement and initiate recovery procedures to restore reliable location tracking.
Solution Approach 2:
The movement detector continuously monitors the host vehicle's position and provides real-time feedback to the controller. When the vehicle is moved from its recorded initial position, the detector generates a signal that triggers the parking space detector to search for available spaces in the opposite direction of movement. This feedback loop maintains reliable location tracking by automatically responding to unauthorized movements and initiating corrective navigation to restore the vehicle to a known, locatable position.
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AI summary
An automatic parking control apparatus includes a vehicle state determiner configured to determine whether a host vehicle is in a double-parked state in which a gear state of the host vehicle is neutral (N) and a starting state of the host vehicle is off, a movement detector configured to, when it is determined that the host vehicle is in the double-parked state, detect whether the host vehicle is moving, a parking space detector configured to, when it is detected that the host vehicle is moving, perform monitoring in a direction opposite to that of the detected movement and detect a parking space, and a controller configured to, when the parking space is detected, calculate a travel path for parking the host vehicle in the detected parking space and control the host vehicle so that the host vehicle is parked along the travel path.