Autonomous Delivery Route Control for Moving Recipient Locations
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Solution Overview
Problem
In scenarios where no reception equipment is available at a package delivery destination, users must wait for delivery, restricting their movement and leading to decreased convenience and efficiency, as well as necessitating redelivery when they move from the original delivery location.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that acquires the user's location at the planned delivery time and instructs an autonomous vehicle to change the delivery destination from the original basic delivery location to the user's location, ensuring the package is delivered to the user even if they have moved, thereby reducing the need for redelivery and enhancing convenience and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the autonomous vehicle delivers the package to the basic delivery destination as originally planned, then the delivery route is fixed and operational efficiency is maintained, but the user may have moved from the destination and requires redelivery, decreasing convenience and increasing time loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the delivery destination flexible rather than fixed. The autonomous vehicle receives dynamic instructions to change its delivery destination from the basic delivery destination to the user's current location, which is determined to have moved. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction by allowing the system to adapt to the user's movement, improving convenience while avoiding the time loss associated with redelivery operations.
2Productivity
If the autonomous vehicle changes the delivery destination to follow the user's location, then user convenience is improved and redelivery is avoided, but the delivery route becomes more complex and operational efficiency may decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by continuously monitoring the user's location and comparing it with the basic delivery destination. When the user's location is determined to have moved from the basic delivery destination, the system provides feedback by instructing the autonomous vehicle to change its delivery destination. This feedback mechanism resolves the contradiction by enabling the system to make informed, data-driven decisions about route adjustments, improving delivery efficiency while managing route planning complexity through systematic location verification and conditional destination changes.
3Measurement precision
If the system verifies user location before delivery, then delivery accuracy is improved and misplaced packages are reduced, but the verification process adds time and operational complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by verifying the user's location before the autonomous vehicle completes the delivery. The system determines whether the user's location has moved from the basic delivery destination in advance of the actual delivery moment. This preliminary verification resolves the contradiction by ensuring delivery accuracy and preventing misplaced packages while managing the verification time efficiently through pre-delivery location checks rather than post-delivery corrections.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.