Delivery Vehicle Speed Coordination for In-Motion Handoffs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing delivery management systems face challenges in synchronizing the arrival of user vehicles and delivery vehicles at rendezvous points, leading to waiting times, and struggle with delivering products from mobile stores to moving vehicles using unmanned aerial vehicles due to positional mismatches.
Innovation Solution
A delivery management system that includes position information acquisition and speed adjustment mechanisms to synchronize the speeds of user and delivery vehicles, allowing them to meet en route, enabling efficient product delivery from moving delivery vehicles to moving user vehicles using drones or extendable arms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the user vehicle and delivery vehicle are directed to a rendezvous point, then product delivery can be achieved, but one vehicle must wait for the other causing time loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by enabling both the user vehicle and delivery vehicle to move simultaneously during the delivery process. Instead of one vehicle waiting at a rendezvous point, both vehicles travel together along the same route, with the delivery vehicle positioned behind or beside the user vehicle, allowing delivery to occur during motion rather than at a stationary meeting point
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by having the delivery vehicle follow the user vehicle along the predetermined route before the user vehicle reaches its destination. The delivery vehicle positions itself appropriately in advance and maintains this position throughout the journey, ensuring delivery can occur at the optimal moment without requiring the user vehicle to stop or wait
2Speed
If a mobile store uses an unmanned aerial vehicle for product delivery, then delivery speed can be increased, but positional mismatch between store and vehicle prevents successful delivery
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the communication information terminal continuously acquires the vehicle's position, traveling route, and traveling speed. This real-time feedback information is used to determine the optimal timing for unmanned aerial vehicle takeoff and to adjust the delivery process, ensuring the aerial vehicle can successfully deliver products despite the mobile store's changing position
Solution Approach 2:
The communication information terminal serves as an intermediary that coordinates between the mobile store, the user vehicle, and the unmanned aerial vehicle. It processes position and route information to determine precise takeoff timing and coordinates the aerial vehicle's flight path to intercept the moving user vehicle, enabling successful delivery from a mobile platform
Data Source
AI summary
In a delivery management apparatus, position information acquisition means acquires position information of a user vehicle and position information of a delivery vehicle. Speed adjustment information generation means generates speed adjustment information for bringing the user vehicle close to the delivery vehicle based on the position information of the user vehicle and the position information of the delivery vehicle. The speed adjustment information generation means transmits the generated speed adjustment information to the user vehicle and the delivery vehicle.