Autonomous Vehicle Service Zone Navigation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Autonomous vehicles lack integrated systems for efficiently linking parking and vehicle services, limiting user convenience and service provider sales in smart buildings and shopping malls.

Innovation Solution

An autonomous vehicle system that includes a navigation system setting a service zone adjacent to a parking lot as a destination, with a service providing system comprising a management server, surveillance camera system, and user terminal for registering, changing, and canceling vehicle services, allowing vehicles to autonomously drive between pick-up and service zones.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If autonomous vehicles are equipped with integrated parking and vehicle service systems, then user convenience and service efficiency are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into distinct functional modules: navigation system for route planning between parking lot and service zone, operation system for autonomous driving control, and service providing system with separate management server, service provider server, and user terminal. This segmentation allows each module to be developed and maintained independently while working together to provide integrated services.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A management server acts as an intermediary component that coordinates between the navigation system, operation system, and service providing system. The management server receives service registration, change, and cancellation information from user terminals and manages the overall service delivery, reducing the complexity burden on individual vehicle systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If service zones are established adjacent to parking lots with multiple vehicle services, then service provider sales and user satisfaction increase, but infrastructure cost and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice efficiencyVSAvoidinfrastructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The service zone is designed as a multi-functional area adjacent to the parking lot that can accommodate various vehicle services simultaneously. The system supports registration, change, and cancellation of different types of vehicle services through a unified interface, allowing the same infrastructure to serve multiple service providers and service types without requiring separate dedicated facilities for each service.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows users to pre-register vehicle services through user terminals before the vehicle arrives at the service zone. The management server processes service registration, change, and cancellation information in advance, preparing the service delivery framework before the actual service execution, which streamlines the on-site service process and reduces infrastructure demands during peak service periods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If real-time service status monitoring is implemented, then user satisfaction and service management quality improve, but information processing requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice management qualityVSAvoidinformation processing load
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback mechanisms where the management server continuously monitors service status and communicates updates to user terminals. The surveillance camera system provides visual feedback of vehicle conditions and service zone status. This feedback loop enables users to track service progress in real-time while the system automatically manages information flow, reducing the processing burden on individual components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses surveillance camera systems to create visual copies or representations of the physical service environment. These visual copies are transmitted to user terminals, allowing users to monitor service status remotely without requiring complex direct sensing capabilities in each user device. The camera system acts as an information copying mechanism that distributes service status data efficiently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11358613B2Autonomous vehicle and service providing system and method using the same
Publication Date: 2022.06.14 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Disclosed herein are an autonomous vehicle and a service providing system and method using the same. The autonomous vehicle includes a navigation system setting, as a destination, a service zone adjacent to a parking lot when there is a previously registered vehicle service input through a user terminal, and setting, as a destination, the parking lot adjacent to the service zone after completion of the previously registered vehicle service, and an operation system moving the vehicle to the destination through autonomous driving. One or more of the autonomous vehicle, the user terminal, and the server may be associated with artificial intelligence, a robot, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), or the like.