Mobile Object Immersive Mode Actuator Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing automobile systems lack the capability to recreate spatial presence and provide an immersive feeling by interactively controlling various actuators such as audio, display, and air conditioning systems, making it difficult to simulate a remote location during actual driving use.
Innovation Solution
A mobile object and system that includes an input detection unit, an acquisition unit to gather environmental information from sensors, and a control unit to manage actuators like speakers, air conditioning, and displays based on received data, allowing the automobile to switch between driving and immersive modes to recreate a specific spatial presence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If independent systems (audio, air conditioning, display) are mounted on an automobile for driving use, then each system can operate according to user manipulation, but the systems cannot interactively control to recreate spatial presence of a remote location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent systems (audio system, air conditioning device, display device) into an integrated immersive experience system. The control unit coordinates these systems to work together based on environmental information from sensors, enabling them to collectively recreate spatial presence rather than operating independently.
Solution Approach 2:
The automobile's existing systems are made multi-functional by enabling them to serve both traditional driving functions and immersive experience functions. The audio system can provide both navigation audio and spatial ambiance, the air conditioning can regulate temperature and create atmospheric effects, and the display can show both driving information and virtual environment visuals.
2Ease of operation
If the automobile operates in traditional driving mode, then driving actuator control is simple and direct, but immersive feeling and spatial presence recreation are not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between driving mode and immersive mode based on operational context. In driving mode, the system prioritizes simple and direct control of driving actuators. In immersive mode, the system activates interactive control of non-driving actuators to recreate spatial presence, allowing the automobile to adapt its operational characteristics to different usage scenarios.
3Loss of information
If environmental information from remote sensors is acquired and used to control actuators, then spatial presence can be recreated, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit serves as an intermediary that receives environmental information from remote sensors, processes this data, and translates it into appropriate control signals for various actuators. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the complex data processing and coordination functions, rather than requiring direct complex interactions between all system components.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object.