In-Vehicle Interface Arrangement for Humanoid Robot Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Humanoid robots lack efficient interfaces to connect with vehicles, limiting their ability to safely and effectively guide vehicles by lacking necessary data and energy transmission, which is crucial for safe navigation and operation.
Innovation Solution
A standardized interface arrangement that connects a humanoid robot to a vehicle's positioning device, energy source, communication device, and sensor unit, providing interfaces for transmitting position, energy, network, and sensor data, enabling the robot to take over vehicle guidance by integrating with the vehicle's systems and actuators.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If humanoid robots are equipped with basic movement and manipulation capabilities, then they can operate in human-created environments, but they lack the necessary interfaces to connect with vehicles for safe and effective vehicle guidance
Solution Approach 1:
The interface arrangement is divided into multiple independent interfaces: a first interface for positioning data, a second interface for energy transmission, a third interface for network data, and a fourth interface for sensor data. This segmentation allows each interface to handle specific data types independently, enabling comprehensive vehicle guidance functionality while maintaining manageable complexity through modular design.
2Reliability
If the robot connects to multiple vehicle systems (positioning, energy, communication, sensors), then it gains comprehensive data for safe navigation, but the connection complexity increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The interface arrangement employs universal interface designs that can handle multiple data types and communication protocols through standardized connection points. Each interface is designed to be multi-functional, accommodating different data streams (positioning, energy, network, sensor) while maintaining a consistent structural framework that simplifies the overall connection architecture.
3Loss of information
If the robot receives real-time position data from the vehicle's positioning device, then it can accurately track vehicle location, but it lacks energy transmission capability without a dedicated energy interface
Solution Approach 1:
The interface arrangement merges multiple essential functions into a unified connection system. The same physical interface structure that enables data transmission for position tracking also provides the energy transmission pathway. This combining of data and power interfaces reduces overall system complexity while ensuring both information flow and energy supply are established through integrated connection points.
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AI summary
An interface arrangement for a vehicle connects a humanoid robot to the vehicle. The interface arrangement is equipped and designed to be connected in the vehicle, respectively to a positioning device, an energy source, a communication device, and a sensor unit of the vehicle. The interface arrangement has a first interface equipped and designed to transmit current position data of the positioning device of the vehicle to the humanoid robot. A second interface transmits energy from the energy source of the vehicle to the humanoid robot. A third interface transmits network data from the communication device of the vehicle to the humanoid robot. A fourth interface transmits sensor data from the sensor unit of the vehicle to the humanoid robot.