Autonomous Mobile Body Support Dispatch for Skilled Nearby Workers

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to appropriately assign tasks to workers for autonomous mobile bodies, leading to inefficiencies and downtime when the mobile bodies become immobile, as they rely on inappropriate or unavailable workers, which can stop the service provided by the mobile bodies.

Innovation Solution

A support system that receives requests for tasks from autonomous mobile bodies, determines the necessary tasks, and transmits call information to suitable workers via terminals, ensuring they have the right skills and are within a predetermined distance, thereby optimizing task performance and reducing downtime.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If tasks are assigned to workers without verifying their suitability and availability, then the assignment process is simple and fast, but the mobile body experiences downtime and service quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask assignment efficiencyVSAvoidservice continuity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of worker suitability and availability before task assignment by checking worker profiles against task requirements and current worker status. This pre-verification ensures that only qualified and available workers are selected, preventing service disruptions while maintaining efficient assignment processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the system waits for worker applications before assigning tasks, then worker suitability is ensured, but task completion time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveworker task suitabilityVSAvoidtask completion time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-identifies and pre- verifies suitable workers by matching their profiles with task requirements before tasks are posted. This preliminary preparation creates a ready pool of qualified workers, enabling rapid assignment when tasks arise without requiring time-consuming application processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors worker availability and task completion status, using this feedback to dynamically update the pool of suitable workers. This real-time feedback mechanism ensures that the most appropriate available workers are quickly identified and assigned, reducing task completion time while maintaining suitability standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If workers are not properly selected for tasks, then assignment is quick, but task performance quality and mobile body operation reliability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask assignment simplicityVSAvoidmobile body operation reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary matching of worker skills and availability with task requirements before assignment. By pre-filtering and pre-verifying worker suitability, the system maintains simple assignment operations while ensuring high reliability through automated compatibility checking between worker profiles and task demands.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260044793A1Support method, terminal, support system, and control method
Publication Date: 2026.02.12 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

A support method performed by a support system that provides support for an autonomous mobile body includes: receiving request information indicating a request for the support; determining a task relating to the autonomous mobile body by using the request information received; transmitting, to one or more terminals used by one or more supporters, call information indicating a call for one or more workers who perform the task determined; receiving, from a terminal among the one or more terminals, application information indicating an application for the call; and transmitting instruction information indicating an instruction to perform the task to the terminal that has transmitted the application information.