Autonomous Delivery Vehicle Access to Secure Areas Without Stored Maps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing delivery systems cannot deliver or collect packages within secure areas without pre-existing map data, as they lack the capability to authenticate and access area information.
Innovation Solution
A delivery vehicle equipped with an autonomous driving mechanism, a control section that includes an autonomous driving executing section, a destination information acquiring section, a data transmitting section, and a data acquiring section, which allows it to authenticate and acquire necessary area information from a management system for secure areas, ensuring safe traversal and data deletion post-delivery or collection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the delivery vehicle travels autonomously without pre-existing map data of secure areas, then it cannot access secure areas for delivery, but if it acquires map data of secure areas, then it can travel within secure areas while potentially compromising security
Solution Approach 1:
The delivery vehicle performs authentication with the management system before entering the secure area. The management system preliminarily verifies the vehicle's identity and delivery authorization, and only after successful authentication does the vehicle receive and store the area information needed for navigation within the secure area.
Solution Approach 2:
The area information acquired is specifically tailored to the secure area being accessed, containing only the necessary map data and navigation information for that particular location. The system selectively acquires and stores only the local area information relevant to the current delivery task, not general or widespread map data.
Solution Approach 3:
After the delivery is completed and the vehicle exits the secure area, the stored area information is automatically deleted from the vehicle's storage. This ensures that sensitive location data is temporarily available only when needed for delivery operations and is discarded afterward to maintain security.
2Ease of operation
If the delivery vehicle stores area information for navigation, then it can navigate within secure areas, but storing this information increases the risk of data breach
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle acquires area information only after successful authentication with the management system, before entering the secure area. This preliminary verification ensures that only authorized vehicles obtain access to the area data.
Solution Approach 2:
The area information is automatically deleted from the vehicle's storage after the delivery task is completed and the vehicle exits the secure area. This temporary storage approach minimizes the window of vulnerability while maintaining navigation capability during the delivery operation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the delivery vehicle acquires complete map data of secure areas, then it can freely navigate, but it increases the amount of sensitive data stored
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle acquires and stores only the specific area information relevant to the secure area it needs to access for the current delivery task. Rather than storing comprehensive map data of entire secure areas or multiple locations, the system selectively obtains only the local navigation data necessary for the immediate delivery operation.
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AI summary
A delivery vehicle includes: a main body portion equipped with a moving mechanism; and a control section provided at the main body portion, wherein the control section includes: an autonomous driving executing section that controls the moving mechanism and makes it possible for the main body portion to travel autonomously; a destination information acquiring section that acquires information relating to a delivery destination or a collection destination of a package; a data transmitting section transmitting predetermined data for authentication to a management system that manages a secure area on a delivery path; and a data acquiring section that, in a case in which the data for authentication is authenticated by the management system, acquires area information including map information of the secure area from the management system.