Mobile Body Route Guidance from Imaging and External Wireless Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile body systems, such as telepresence robots, lack user convenience in generating and utilizing route guidance information for efficient movement, as they rely on manual input and lack integrated systems for wireless communication and information processing.
Innovation Solution
A mobile body system equipped with an imaging unit, movement mechanism, and wireless communication unit, along with an information processor that generates route guidance information using external, input, and held information, enabling autonomous movement and improved user convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual input is used for route guidance information, then device complexity is reduced, but user convenience and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile body system automatically generates route guidance information using its own imaging unit and wireless communication unit without requiring manual user input. The system serves itself by autonomously creating movement instructions based on captured images and external information received via wireless communication, thereby improving user convenience while maintaining manageable system complexity through integrated autonomous functionality.
2Productivity
If autonomous route generation is implemented, then productivity and user convenience improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into the mobile body system: the imaging unit captures images, the wireless communication unit receives external information, and the information generator creates route guidance information by integrating both inputs. This merging of functions enables autonomous route generation that improves productivity while managing complexity through a unified integrated system rather than separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile body system is designed with multi-functionality, where the same system components (imaging unit, wireless communication unit, information generator) serve multiple purposes: capturing images for route generation, receiving external information for navigation, and autonomously creating movement instructions. This universal approach allows the system to perform autonomous route generation without requiring additional dedicated components, thereby improving productivity while controlling complexity.
3Reliability
If integrated information processing is implemented, then user convenience and route accuracy improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The information generator integrates multiple information sources including images captured by the imaging unit and external information received via wireless communication to generate accurate route guidance information. This merging of information sources improves route guidance accuracy by combining visual data with external navigation data, while the integrated processing approach manages complexity through a unified information synthesis mechanism.
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AI summary
A mobile body includes: an imaging unit; a movement mechanism that moves itself; a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication; and an information generator that generates, on a basis of external information received from outside by the wireless communication unit, route guidance information for use in allowing the movement mechanism to move itself.