Autonomous Mobile Routing for In-Transit Item Pickup
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for confirming the delivery of packages by autonomous mobile objects lack efficiency in ensuring the user can access necessary ingredients or tools for product creation, as they require manual preparation and location identification, which can be time-consuming and inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that control an autonomous mobile object to travel to the location of required ingredients or tools, allowing the user to acquire them while in transit, by acquiring user requests, ingredient information, and generating operation commands for the mobile object to navigate to these locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual preparation and location identification are required for product creation, then users can access necessary ingredients or tools, but the process becomes time-consuming and inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile object autonomously identifies locations of required ingredients or tools and navigates to retrieve them without human intervention. The system automatically acquires information about articles needed for product creation, finds their locations, and transports them to the user, eliminating manual preparation work and saving time
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile object serves as an intermediary between the user and the ingredients/tools. It autonomously travels to locate and acquire necessary items based on user requests, then delivers them to the user, thereby reducing direct user involvement in the search and retrieval process while maintaining access to required resources
2Productivity
If the mobile object travels autonomously to procure ingredients or tools, then user convenience is enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile object is designed as a multi-functional platform that combines autonomous navigation, information acquisition, article retrieval, and user delivery capabilities. This universal system can handle various product creation needs by autonomously adapting to different ingredients or tools required, thereby improving productivity across different scenarios while consolidating complexity into a single versatile device
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute: acquiring information regarding a request of a user making a product while riding on a mobile object; acquiring information regarding an article used in making the product; acquiring information regarding a location of the article; and generating an operation command of the mobile object such that the mobile object carrying the user travels via the location of the article.