Autonomous Parking Reservation and Navigation via Server
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current automatic parking systems for vehicles face inefficiencies, such as unnecessary waiting times and inability to adapt to delays, as they lack a method for pre-reserving parking positions and providing real-time navigation data for autonomous navigation within parking facilities.
Innovation Solution
A method and system where a vehicle sends a reservation request to a parking facility management server via a communication network, which processes and transmits navigation data for autonomous navigation to a reserved parking position, allowing the vehicle to autonomously navigate and reserve a suitable parking spot, and modify reservations based on anticipated arrival times, including parameters like parking duration and location specifics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the vehicle arrives at the parking facility without a pre-reserved parking position, then the vehicle must wait for an available parking position to become free, but this results in unnecessary waiting time and reduced productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by allowing the vehicle to send a reservation request before arriving at the parking facility. The parking facility management server processes this request in advance, identifies an available parking position, and reserves it for the vehicle. This preliminary reservation eliminates the need for the vehicle to wait upon arrival, as a parking position is already secured and ready for immediate use.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle uses a fixed parking position assignment method, then the parking process is simple, but it cannot adapt to delays or changes in arrival time
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic adaptability by allowing the vehicle to communicate its anticipated arrival time to the parking facility management server. The server uses this information to dynamically adjust the reservation, modifying the reserved parking position or reservation time as needed. This dynamic approach enables the system to adapt to delays or changes in arrival time while maintaining efficient parking position management.
3Extent of automation
If the vehicle navigates to the parking position without autonomous navigation data, then the navigation system is simpler, but the vehicle cannot perform fully autonomous navigation in the parking facility
Solution Approach 1:
The parking facility management server acts as an intermediary that generates and transmits autonomous navigation data to the vehicle. This navigation data includes detailed routing information, parking position coordinates, and navigation instructions specific to the parking facility's layout. The server mediates between the vehicle's navigation system and the physical parking environment, enabling fully autonomous navigation by providing the necessary guidance data without requiring complex modifications to the vehicle's hardware.
Data Source
AI summary
A method (and corresponding parking facility management server, parking system, and computer program) for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle includes a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility being sent to a parking facility management server via a communication network, navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request being received by the vehicle via the communication network, and the vehicle autonomously navigating in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data. It is preferably provided that the vehicle autonomously pulls into the parking position, pulls out of this parking position, and travels back to a drop-off position or pick-up position, from which a driver of the vehicle may pick up the vehicle.