Autonomous Parking Route Determination via Occupancy Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack efficient support for driverless driving of motor vehicles within parking facilities, particularly in determining optimal routes to free parking and pickup areas, leading to potential delays and inefficiencies in automated valet parking processes.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that monitor the occupancy of parking and pickup areas, determining routes from drop-off to parking and pickup areas via wireless communication, enabling remote-controlled or autonomous navigation of vehicles, and adapting routes in response to changes in occupancy states.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If driverless driving is implemented in parking facilities, then automation extent is improved, but route determination efficiency deteriorates due to lack of real-time occupancy monitoring
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary monitoring of parking space occupancy states and pre-determines routes before the vehicle arrives. The processor device ascertains free parking spaces and determines optimal routes in advance, so that when the driverless vehicle arrives, navigation can begin immediately without delay, thus resolving the contradiction between automation and route determination efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors the occupancy state of parking spaces and uses this real-time feedback information to dynamically determine and adjust routes. The monitoring device provides ongoing data about which spaces are free, allowing the processor to optimize route determination efficiency while maintaining driverless operation
2Measurement precision
If real-time monitoring of all parking spaces is implemented, then route determination accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is segmented into individual monitoring units for each parking space, with each unit independently detecting occupancy state. This segmentation allows the system to achieve comprehensive monitoring accuracy while keeping individual monitoring components simple and manageable, thus resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and device complexity
3Productivity
If routes are determined based on real-time occupancy monitoring, then productivity is improved, but loss of information increases due to reliance on wireless communication networks
Solution Approach 1:
The system determines routes based on occupancy monitoring data that has been preliminarily collected and stored. By having route determination data prepared in advance through monitoring, the system can navigate efficiently without relying on continuous real-time wireless communication, thus improving productivity while minimizing information loss risks
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AI summary
A method is described for supporting a driverless driving of a motor vehicle in a parking facility having a plurality of parking spaces, including the following steps: monitoring the state of occupancy of each of the plurality of parking spaces in order to ascertain free parking spaces, ascertaining a parking space for the motor vehicle based on the monitoring of the state of occupancy of each of the plurality of parking spaces, so that a first route from a motor vehicle drop-off area of the parking facility to the ascertained parking space is determined as a function of the monitoring of the state of occupancy of each of the plurality of parking spaces, communication of remote control commands corresponding to the determined first route to the motor vehicle via a wireless communication network, in order to guide the motor vehicle from the motor vehicle drop-off area to the ascertained parking space in at least partially remote-controlled fashion, and/or communication of the determined first route to the motor vehicle via the wireless communication network so that based on the determined first route the motor vehicle can drive at least partially autonomously from the motor vehicle drop-off area to the ascertained parking space. Also described is a corresponding system, to a parking facility, and to a computer program.