Combined Route Vehicle Control With Sensor-Guided Door Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle control systems fail to adequately protect the vehicle, its user, and surrounding objects due to insufficient sensing and response capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle control system that includes an object sensing unit, data sensing unit, driving unit, interface, and control unit to manage additional routes, door operations, and communication with user devices and control towers for enhanced route management and passenger handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional vehicle control system uses basic image sensing, then the system structure remains simple, but the safety and protection capabilities are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sensing units (image sensing unit, radar sensing unit, laser sensing unit, ultrasonic sensing unit) into an integrated sensing system. These diverse sensing modalities are merged to provide comprehensive environmental perception, enabling the vehicle to detect objects, pedestrians, and obstacles more reliably while maintaining coordinated system operation through a central control unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit serves multiple functions: it processes data from all sensing units, determines routes, controls door operations, and manages vehicle movement. This multi-functional design allows a single control unit to handle various tasks including safety monitoring, route planning, and actuation control, thereby improving safety without proportionally increasing system complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle follows a fixed destination route, then the route planning is simple, but the flexibility for passenger pickup and dropoff is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The route management system dynamically adjusts the vehicle's path by combining a destination route with additional routes. The control unit determines a combined route that integrates the original destination with intermediate pickup and dropoff points, allowing the route to adapt in real-time based on passenger requirements while maintaining efficient navigation to the final destination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-plans combined routes that include multiple pickup and dropoff points before vehicle operation begins. By determining the complete combined route in advance, the system prepares for multiple passenger transactions without requiring complex real-time route recalculations, thereby achieving route flexibility while controlling management complexity.
3Ease of operation
If the door remains closed during vehicle operation, then safety is improved, but passenger convenience for pickup and dropoff is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The door control system applies different door states to different spatial locations and time points along the route. The control unit opens doors at specific pickup and dropoff points where passenger transactions occur, while keeping doors closed during vehicle movement and at other locations. This localized door operation provides passenger convenience at appropriate locations while maintaining safety during critical operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the sensing units to determine when and where to open or close doors. The control unit continuously monitors sensor data about surrounding objects and vehicle position, and adjusts door states based on this feedback to ensure doors are open only when safe and appropriate for passenger pickup or dropoff, thereby balancing convenience with safety.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle uses only destination route navigation, then the navigation system is simple, but the ability to handle additional routes and traffic changes is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation system merges the destination route with additional routes to create a combined route. The control unit integrates multiple route segments, combining the original destination-oriented path with intermediate routes for pickup and dropoff operations, thereby achieving comprehensive route adaptation while maintaining unified navigation control.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit acts as an intermediary between the simple destination route navigation and the complex requirements for handling additional routes. It processes the destination route information and intermediate route requirements, synthesizing them into a coordinated combined route plan that enables route adaptation without requiring a completely complex navigation system.
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AI summary
A vehicle includes a door, an object sensing unit to sense one or more objects, a data sensing unit to wirelessly communicate with a media source to sense a data, a driving unit to operate the vehicle according to the sensed one or more objects and the sensed data, an interface to communicate with at least one of a user device and a control tower to receive an additional route, and a control unit to control the door to be open and closed at start and end points of a destination route, to add an additional route to the destination route as a combined route, to control the driving unit to operate the vehicle according to the combined route, and to control the door to be open and closed in the additional route of the combined route.