Dynamic Meeting Point Navigation for Multi-User Route Planning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current navigation devices are limited to planning routes for individual users and do not efficiently facilitate multiple users meeting at a common point, leading to inefficiencies and potential delays if users take wrong paths.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that determine a best meeting point and dynamically adjust navigation routes based on the moving states and locations of multiple user terminals using map information, incorporating an electronic device with modules for information acquisition, planning, decision-making, and dynamic adjustment to ensure users meet efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a fixed meeting point is determined based on users' own decision, then users can independently plan their routes, but the meeting efficiency is reduced due to waiting time and inability to adapt to wrong paths
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of the meeting point and routes based on real-time moving states of user terminals. The system continuously monitors user positions and automatically recalculates the optimal meeting point and routes, transforming the static meeting point determination into a dynamic process that adapts to changing conditions during the navigation operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback mechanism by continuously acquiring moving states of user terminals during navigation and using this information to adjust the meeting point and routes. This closed-loop control allows the system to respond to deviations from planned routes and optimize the meeting arrangement in real-time, reducing waiting time and improving meeting efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If navigation devices plan routes for individual users only, then each user can have a customized route, but the system cannot facilitate efficient group meeting coordination
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual route planning with group coordination by determining a common meeting point that optimizes the convergence of multiple users. The system integrates the routes of multiple user terminals while maintaining individual route customization, allowing each user to have a personalized path to the meeting point while ensuring overall group efficiency through centralized meeting point optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation device performs multiple functions simultaneously: it provides individualized route planning for each user while also coordinating the group meeting arrangement. The system universally serves both individual navigation needs and collective meeting objectives, making the navigation device multi-functional in handling both personal and group transportation requirements.
3Force
If users negotiate a meeting point in advance, then the meeting point can be decided before navigation, but the system lacks flexibility to adapt to changing moving states during navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary determination of the meeting point and routes before the navigation operation begins, generating initial planning information based on the locations of user terminals. This pre-planning phase establishes the initial meeting arrangement and routes, providing a head start before users begin their journey to the meeting point.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from static pre-planned routes to dynamic real-time adjustment by continuously monitoring moving states during navigation. When deviations or changes in user positions occur, the system automatically recalculates and adjusts the meeting point and routes, maintaining flexibility and adaptability throughout the navigation process rather than adhering rigidly to the initial plan.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, an electronic device and a computer-readable recording medium for planning a meeting point and routes are provided, and the method including the following steps. Map information and a start point location of each of a plurality of user terminals are obtained. Prior planning information associated with the start point location is generated for each of the user terminals according to the map information. A best meeting point is determined for the user terminals according to the prior planning information. During a period in which at least one of the user terminals performs a navigation operation according to a navigation route, the best meeting point and the navigation route of at least one of the user terminals are dynamically adjusted according to a moving state of each of the user terminals and the prior planning information.