Autonomous Vehicle Pickup UI With Situational Awareness View
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Solution Overview
Problem
Passengers find it difficult to communicate with autonomous vehicles, undermining the user experience due to the absence of a human driver for providing information or navigating to specific drop-off locations.
Innovation Solution
The autonomous vehicle uses sensor data to determine viable pick-up or drop-off locations, considering various factors, and allows passengers to interact through an autonomous-vehicle user interface (UI) device, displaying a situational-awareness view that includes graphical representations of the environment, enabling users to select desired locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If autonomous vehicles are used to eliminate human drivers, then productivity and safety are improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in communicating with the vehicle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a computing device as an intermediary between the passenger and the autonomous vehicle. This device receives sensor data from the vehicle's sensors, processes it to identify viable pick-up or drop-off locations, and presents these locations to the passenger through a user interface. The passenger can then select desired locations by interacting with the interface, effectively mediating the communication between human user and autonomous system.
2Reliability
If autonomous vehicles navigate automatically without human input, then reliability is improved, but adaptability deteriorates due to inability to respond to passenger-specific location preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring sensor data from the autonomous vehicle's environment, processing this data to identify viable locations, and presenting these options to the passenger. The passenger's selections from the presented options feed back into the navigation system, allowing the vehicle to adapt its destination and route based on user preferences while maintaining reliable autonomous operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the navigation parameters by receiving real-time sensor data, processing it to identify current viable locations, and updating the presentation of options based on the vehicle's current state and environment. This allows the system to adapt to changing conditions and passenger preferences during the ride.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle presents multiple potential locations for selection, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases due to the need for processing sensor data and generating situational awareness view
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex task of location selection into distinct components: (1) sensor data collection from the vehicle's environment, (2) processing sensor data to identify viable pick-up or drop-off locations, (3) generating a situational awareness view with graphical representations, and (4) presenting multiple potential locations to the passenger for selection. This segmentation makes the overall system more manageable and understandable.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method includes sending a set of instructions to present, on a computing device, one or more available locations for a vehicle to pick-up or drop-off a user in an area. The one or more available locations are based on sensor data of the area that is captured by the vehicle. The method includes receiving a user selection to select a location associated with the area for the vehicle to pick-up or drop-off the user. The method includes adjusting a viability value of one or more locations to pick-up or drop-off the user. The viability value is adjusted based at least on the selected location. The method includes, based on the adjusted viability value of the one or more locations, determining a location from the one or more locations. The method includes instructing the vehicle to travel to the determined location.