Autonomous Vehicle Access Gate Verification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles face challenges in accessing restricted areas, such as gated communities or sporting events, due to the absence of a person to operate entry gates, preventing them from picking up customers at their preferred locations.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a controller with executable instructions to generate vehicle identification aspects from reservation information, allowing wireless communication with access operators to enable restricted area entry by comparing and verifying these aspects, thereby remotely controlling access gates for vehicle entry.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If an autonomous vehicle attempts to access a restricted area without a human operator, then the vehicle can operate independently and improve automation, but the vehicle cannot obtain manual authorization to operate entry gates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a remote operator as an intermediary who receives automated requests from the autonomous vehicle, verifies identification aspects, and manually authorizes gate access. This mediator bridges the gap between automated vehicle operation and the need for human authorization at restricted areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the access authorization process into distinct components: automated vehicle identification aspect generation, wireless transmission of identification aspects, remote operator verification, and gate control activation. This segmentation allows the autonomous vehicle to handle identification generation while the remote operator handles verification and authorization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle transmits identification information wirelessly to access operators, then entry authorization can be obtained remotely, but the system requires additional communication infrastructure and protocols
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs universal wireless communication protocols that allow the autonomous vehicle to transmit identification aspects using standard communication interfaces. The remote operator system is designed to receive and process these universal signals, making the system adaptable to different communication standards while maintaining relatively simple implementation.
3Reliability
If the system generates and compares multiple vehicle identification aspects, then security verification is improved, but the processing time and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent generates vehicle identification aspects in advance, before the vehicle reaches the restricted area. This preliminary generation allows the identification data to be ready for immediate transmission and verification, reducing the time required at the actual access point while maintaining multi-aspect security verification.
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AI summary
A system to enable restricted area entrance, including a memory configured to include one or more executable instructions; a controller configured to execute the executable instructions; a vehicle including a vehicle controls device, the vehicle configured to communicate with the controller, the vehicle controls device configured to command the vehicle to autonomously perform rideshare task(s); and the executable instructions enable the controller to receive vehicle reservation information from a mobile computing device; generate first and second vehicle identification aspects from the received vehicle reservation information, where the first and second vehicle identification aspects can be compared and, when the first and second vehicle identification aspects are determined to correspond via the comparison, an access operator can operate an access gate to enable restricted area entrance; and communicate the first vehicle identification aspect to the vehicle and the second vehicle identification aspect to the access operator.