Connectable Vehicle Notification System for Passenger Detachment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current autonomous vehicle systems lack the capability to interlock and share resources, such as movement and goods/services, between vehicles, limiting social and commercial interactions among passengers during travel.

Innovation Solution

Navigation devices and methods that enable passengers to connect with other vehicles by transmitting and receiving notifications regarding planned detachments and connections, allowing passengers to move between vehicles for socializing or exchanging goods/services, using electronic devices and processors to manage vehicle connections and navigation instructions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If autonomous vehicles operate independently without interlocking capabilities, then vehicle control and navigation are simplified, but resource sharing and passenger interaction between vehicles are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevehicle interlocking capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple autonomous vehicles into a connected platoon system where vehicles share navigation data, status information, and resource capabilities. This allows resource sharing and passenger interaction while maintaining individual vehicle autonomy, resolving the contradiction between independence and interlocking capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements universal communication protocols and standardized interfaces that enable different autonomous vehicles to interlock and share resources regardless of manufacturer or model. This multi-functionality approach allows the same system to handle navigation coordination, resource sharing, and passenger interaction across diverse vehicle types.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If passengers remain in single vehicles throughout journey, then vehicle navigation and routing are straightforward, but social and commercial interactions among passengers are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepassenger mobility between vehiclesVSAvoidcoordination time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary coordination by pre-calculating optimal transfer points, timing, and routing for passengers moving between vehicles. Navigation instructions are prepared in advance, and vehicle schedules are synchronized beforehand, minimizing actual transfer time and coordination overhead during the journey.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where passenger location, vehicle status, and navigation progress are monitored in real-time. This enables dynamic adjustment of transfer schedules and routing to optimize passenger mobility while minimizing delays, allowing social and commercial interactions without significant time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If vehicles operate as isolated units, then system management is simpler, but resource sharing and service exchange between vehicles cannot occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource sharing capabilityVSAvoidsystem management ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a central coordination system that acts as an intermediary between autonomous vehicles. This mediator manages resource sharing, service exchange, and platoon coordination, simplifying system management by centralizing control logic while enabling complex resource sharing and service exchange capabilities that would be difficult to implement through direct peer-to-peer vehicle communication.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10202131B2Notifications involved with attaching or detaching connectable vehicles

Publication Date: 2019.02.12 HERE GLOBAL BV

AI summary

Navigation devices, systems, and methods for transmitting notifications to and/or receiving notifications from electronic devices associated with passengers of connectable vehicles are described herein. In one example, a method is provided for sending a notification regarding a planned detachment of a designated vehicle from a plurality of connected vehicles. The method includes receiving a navigation destination for a passenger of an initial vehicle, calculating a detachment time or detachment location of the designated vehicle from the plurality of connected vehicles based on the received navigation destination, and transmitting a personalized notification to an electronic device associated with the passenger regarding the detachment time or detachment location of the designated vehicle from the plurality of connected vehicles.