Unmanned Mobile Service Scheduling for Reserved On-Site Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional store main bodies, such as self-driving vehicles or drones, can move to predetermined places unmanned but are unable to actively provide services to users due to the lack of internal user interaction capabilities.

Innovation Solution

A management system for an unmanned mobile service device comprising a service device with a service performing unit, a management server, and a subscriber input unit that allows for reservation and movement control, enabling the device to provide services without user interaction and move to reserved locations autonomously.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If a self-driving vehicle or drone is adopted as a store main body, then the store main body can move to a predetermined place in an unmanned manner, but the store main body cannot actively provide a service to the user

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveunmanned movement capabilityVSAvoidservice provision capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The service device is divided into distinct functional modules: a moving unit for autonomous navigation to reserved locations, and a service performing unit for executing services. This segmentation allows the device to maintain unmanned movement capability while adding dedicated service provision functionality through the separate service performing unit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The service device is designed with multi-functionality by integrating both movement capabilities (self-driving vehicle or drone) and service performance capabilities (firework launching, projection mapping, drone flight, robot operation, acoustic device music performance, scent generation). This allows a single device to perform multiple services at reserved locations without requiring internal user acceptance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12579485B2Management system for unmanned mobile service equipment
Publication Date: 2026.03.17 TAISHO SKY BUILDING INC
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AI summary

A management system for an unmanned mobile service device includes a device main body, a management server that manages the device main body, and a terminal device that accepts an operation input by a subscriber. The device main body includes a service performing unit that performs a service without internally receiving a user, and a moving unit that moves the device main body. The management server 3 includes a reservation information setting section that accepts a reservation of the device main body via the terminal device 4 to store reservation information regarding a reserved place in a storage section and set the reservation information, and a movement control section that causes the moving unit to move the device main body to the reserved place based on the reservation information.