Camera-Assisted Navigation Support in Data-Deprived Mobility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing motorized mobile systems (MMS) fail to consider the diverse abilities and needs of users with varying physiological and cognitive conditions, leading to inadequate safety, security, and social independence, particularly in navigating complex environments.
Innovation Solution
Integration of integrated software and hardware systems, sensors for situational awareness, user monitoring, and human-machine interfaces designed for users with varying abilities, along with secure communication architectures and sensor fusion techniques to enhance navigation and user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If motorized mobile systems use traditional mechanical control systems, then the system structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the system cannot adapt to diverse user needs and complex environmental navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical control systems with electronic control systems using electromechanical actuators and human-machine interfaces (drive-by-wire technology). This substitution enables the system to process electronic signals from multiple sensors and adapt to diverse user needs through software control, while maintaining manageable complexity through modular electronic architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal control system that can serve multiple functions: navigation, collision avoidance, user monitoring, and environmental adaptation. The electronic control system with integrated sensors and processors provides multi-functionality, allowing the same system to adapt to various user physiological conditions and navigate complex environments
2Reliability
If motorized mobile systems integrate multiple sensors and processing systems, then situational awareness and navigation capability improve, but system complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the complex system into separate functional modules: sensors for detecting environmental features, processors for analyzing sensor data and generating navigation information, and actuators for executing navigation commands. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured and tested independently, improving overall manufacturing ease while maintaining high navigation safety
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces human-machine interfaces and control systems as intermediaries between the physical environment and the motorized mobile system. These intermediaries process complex sensor data and translate it into actionable navigation commands, simplifying the manufacturing of the overall system by decoupling the complexity of sensor integration from the actuation mechanisms
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for providing precise navigation for a motorized mobile system (MMS) in data deprived environments, the system comprising at least one camera that is operably configured to generate one or more of an image of objects in a field-of-view of the sensors, wherein the object is identified and used to enhance navigation or operation of the MMS.