Autonomous Vehicle Service Space With Gated Staff Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
In parking environments using autonomous valet parking, public exclusion is necessary for safety and security, but this prevents service personnel from accessing parked vehicles, and unauthorized individuals may gain access or damage vehicles during services.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a service space outside the parking environment with a gated access system and authentication process ensures that vehicles are moved autonomously to this space for service, where only authorized personnel can access, preventing unauthorized entry and ensuring safety by maintaining the parking environment free of people.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the parking environment is blocked for people to ensure safety standards, then safety is improved, but service personnel cannot access parked motor vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the parking environment into two distinct zones: a people-exclusive parking environment and a service space for vehicle maintenance. The motor vehicle acts as a mobile boundary between these zones, being transported autonomously to the service space where services are performed, then returned to the parking environment. This segmentation allows both safety (people excluded from parking environment) and service access (vehicle brought to service personnel) to be achieved simultaneously.
2Ease of operation
If service personnel are allowed in the parking environment to provide services, then service access is improved, but unauthorized individuals may gain access or damage vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The motor vehicle serves as an intermediary that transports services to the parking environment without requiring service personnel to enter it. The vehicle is moved autonomously to a service space, where authorized services are performed on the vehicle while it remains blocked for automated operation. This eliminates unauthorized access risks while maintaining service capability.
3Productivity
If the motor vehicle is made accessible for services while parked, then service provision is improved, but the vehicle may be accessed or damaged by unauthorized people
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes the operational state of the motor vehicle based on location. When in the parking environment, the vehicle is blocked for automated operation only. When transported to the service space, the vehicle is blocked for automated operation and made accessible for authorized services. This dynamic state management ensures security is maintained while enabling service provision.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a motor vehicle for a service, said motor vehicle having a vehicle guidance system designed for fully automated vehicle guidance and being parked in a parking space in a parking environment, in particular which is blocked for people. The method includesproviding a service space outside the parking environment, which has a parking-environment-side access gate and a staff access that can be accessed from outside the parking environment. The method includes completely automatically driving the motor vehicle through the vehicle guidance system from the parking space via the parking environment into the service space without any people in it, and parking the motor vehicle in the service space, andafter parking the motor vehicle in the service space, closing the access gate and enabling an entry of a service person through the staff access depending on an authentication process carried out by the service person at an authentication device located outside the service space.