Delivery Management System for Secure Robot Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

In existing delivery management systems, recipients cannot determine the storage location of delivered articles, and robots require storage information to place items correctly, posing risks of personal information leakage.

Innovation Solution

A delivery management system that associates identification information with storage place information, allowing robots to read and extract storage information when articles arrive, reducing personal data exposure and ensuring correct storage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If storage place information is stored and transmitted to enable correct article storage, then storage accuracy is improved, but personal information leakage risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage accuracyVSAvoidpersonal information leakage risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by storing the association between identification information and storage place information in advance before the article is delivered. When the article arrives, the storage robot can immediately read the identification information and extract the pre-stored storage place information, ensuring accurate storage while minimizing real-time data transmission and reducing personal information leakage risk.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If identification information is read and storage place information is extracted automatically, then storage efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The storage robot autonomously reads the identification information attached to the article and automatically extracts the corresponding storage place information from its stored data without human intervention. This self-service capability improves storage efficiency while the system manages complexity internally through automated processes rather than requiring complex external coordination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If storage place information is retained in the system, then storage accuracy is improved, but information security risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage accuracyVSAvoidinformation security
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system stores the association between identification information and storage place information in advance in a secure manner. By having this information pre-stored and locally available, the system eliminates the need for real-time data transmission or cloud queries, thereby maintaining storage accuracy while reducing information security risks associated with data transmission and centralized storage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11813732B2Delivery management system, delivery management method, and delivery management program
Publication Date: 2023.11.14 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

The delivery management system stores identification information identifying an article to be delivered to a user and storage place information indicating a storage place of the article in a living space of the user while associating the identification information and the storage place information with each other, and reads the identification information attached to the article and extracts the storage place information associated with the identification information when the article arrives at a delivery destination.