Information processing device and information processing method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing robot systems struggle to grasp the overall flow of people and excitement levels in a facility, limiting their ability to effectively manage and optimize service provision across entire areas.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device and method that utilizes a network of sensors and actuators to detect non-ideal situations and transmit control signals to adjust environmental factors like temperature and lighting to optimize the experience across different regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single robot apparatus is used to provide services, then device complexity is reduced, but the ability to grasp overall situation and provide comprehensive services deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the facility into multiple predetermined regions and places sensors in each region to independently detect local situations. This segmentation allows comprehensive coverage of the entire facility while keeping each sensor unit relatively simple, resolving the contradiction between system complexity and information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
A control device acts as an intermediary that collects sensor data from multiple regions, determines ideal situations, and controls actuators accordingly. This intermediary coordinates the distributed sensors and actuators, enabling comprehensive situation awareness without requiring a complex centralized robot system.
2Loss of information
If multiple sensors and actuators are arranged throughout the facility, then the ability to grasp and control overall situation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control device performs multiple functions: collecting sensor data from all regions, determining ideal situations for each region, specifying sensors and actuators, and generating control signals. This multi-functional control device simplifies the overall system architecture despite the presence of multiple sensors and actuators.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously receives sensor data, compares actual situations with ideal situations, and adjusts actuator control accordingly. This feedback mechanism enables dynamic optimization of the facility environment while maintaining manageable system complexity through iterative improvement.
3Speed
If the robot responds only to local situations it directly observes, then response speed is improved, but the ability to optimize overall facility utilization deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control device pre-determines ideal situations for each region based on sensor data, before actual adjustments are made. This preliminary determination of target states enables faster response execution while ensuring optimal facility-wide utilization, as the control strategy is prepared in advance rather than calculated in real-time during execution.
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AI summary
To provide an information processing device and an information processing method capable of grasping the situation of the place using a plurality of arranged sensors and controlling arranged actuators so as to obtain the ideal situation. An information processing device including: a communication portion capable of receiving sensor data detected from a plurality of sensors arranged in predetermined regions and transmitting control signals to a plurality of actuators arranged around the sensors such that the actuators are, at least one by one, associated with each of the sensors; and a control portion that performs control such that the sensor arranged in a specific region determined not to have an ideal situation is specified on the basis of the sensor data detected from the plurality of sensors, the actuator corresponding to the specified sensor is specified from the plurality of actuators, and the control signal for bringing the specific region into the ideal situation is generated and transmitted to the specified actuator through the communication portion.