Golf Cart User Profile Control With Geofenced Safety Limits

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing golf vehicle systems lack the ability to manage user profiles and operating conditions effectively, leading to inconsistent and unsafe operation, particularly when multiple users with varying skill levels and needs utilize the same vehicle.

Innovation Solution

A golf cart system with processing circuits that acquire a unique identifier from users, determine operating conditions based on user profiles, and adjust vehicle operations accordingly, including occupant data monitoring and geofencing, to ensure safe and personalized use.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple users with varying skill levels utilize the same golf vehicle, then the vehicle can serve more users and increase versatility, but the operating safety and consistency deteriorate due to lack of user-specific control

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevehicle usability by multiple usersVSAvoidoperating safety

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into different user profiles (e.g., novice, intermediate, expert) with distinct operating parameters. Each profile has customized speed limits, acceleration rates, and operational restrictions tailored to the user's skill level, allowing safe operation for multiple users simultaneously

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The vehicle's operating parameters are made dynamic and adjustable based on the logged-in user profile. The system automatically modifies speed limits, power delivery, and other operational characteristics in real-time according to which user is operating the vehicle, ensuring safety adapts to each user's capabilities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If the system implements user profile management with multiple parameters and monitoring, then operating safety and personalization improve, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoperating safetyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A single integrated controller manages multiple functions including user authentication, profile selection, parameter adjustment, occupant monitoring, and geofence enforcement. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be separate complex systems into one coordinated unit, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive safety controls

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically detects occupant presence via sensors, retrieves appropriate safety parameters from stored profiles, and configures vehicle operations without manual intervention. This automation reduces the complexity of manual configuration while ensuring consistent safety parameter application

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20260061967A1User profiles for consumers

Publication Date: 2026.03.05 TEXTRON INC

AI summary

A golf cart system includes a golf cart and one or more processing circuits. The one or more processing circuits are configured to acquire a unique identifier associated with a user of the golf cart, determine one or more parameters associated with the unique identifier where the one or more parameters define one or more operating conditions of the golf cart, and permit operation of the golf cart by the user in accordance with the one or more operating conditions.