Facility Vehicle Route Control Using Disaster Equipment and Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies for vehicle travel during disasters do not effectively utilize facility-specific disaster prevention equipment and real-time imaging to determine safe travel routes, leading to potential safety risks.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that determines travel routes for vehicles based on operation information of disaster prevention equipment and imaging data within a facility, using a controller to analyze operation and image information to avoid hazardous areas and transmit safe routes to the vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If vehicle travel routes are determined during disasters, then vehicle navigation capability is improved, but safety risk increases due to lack of real-time disaster prevention equipment status information
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously receives operation information from disaster prevention equipment and feeds it back to the route determination unit, enabling real-time route adjustments based on current safety conditions
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-determines multiple candidate routes and prepares them in advance, so when disaster conditions change, the route can be quickly switched without delay
2Reliability
If real-time imaging is used to detect damaged passageways, then route safety is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging apparatus serves as an intermediary that captures visual information about passageway conditions, which is then processed by the route determination unit to identify damaged areas without requiring direct vehicle-sensor interaction
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a digital representation (image data) of the physical passageway conditions and uses this copy to determine safe routes, avoiding the need for physical inspection
3Measurement precision
If multiple data sources (operation information and image information) are integrated, then route determination accuracy is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The route determination unit merges operation information from disaster prevention equipment with image information from imaging apparatus to comprehensively assess passageway safety and determine optimal routes
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus configured to determine a travel route for a vehicle traveling in a facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine the travel route for the vehicle based on operation information on disaster prevention equipment installed in the facility and/or first image information including an image of a passageway in the facility, the image being captured by an imaging apparatus installed in the facility, and vehicle position information indicating a position of the vehicle, and a communication interface configured to transmit, to the vehicle, travel route information indicating the travel route.