Individual Mobility Position Synchronization System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobility solutions do not effectively enhance user comfort by optimizing the coordination between vehicles and users, particularly in situations involving parking and movement away from vehicles, lacking in adaptive functionality based on real-time positional data and environmental conditions.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that determine and adapt vehicle and user device functionalities using GNSS receivers to synchronize vehicle and user positions, adjusting parameters and settings for improved mobility comfort, including route planning, navigation, and automated driving features based on positional conditions and user data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the vehicle user parks the vehicle and moves away without coordinated mobility solutions, then the user can freely move to different locations, but the user comfort and mobility efficiency are reduced due to lack of adaptive functionality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser mobility comfortVSAvoidadaptive functionality based on positional data
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system determines the vehicle position and user device position in advance, calculates optimal meeting points before the user actually needs to return to the vehicle, and prepares navigation routes proactively. This preliminary determination of positions and calculation of meeting points enables the user to move freely while the system already has the information needed to provide optimized mobility solutions when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors the user device position relative to the vehicle position and provides feedback by suggesting optimal meeting points and routes. When the user's position changes or when the vehicle moves, the system recalculates and updates the meeting point suggestions, creating a closed-loop feedback system that adapts to the user's movements and provides real-time mobility optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If traditional navigation systems are used without adaptive meeting point calculation, then the system is simple to implement, but travel time and energy consumption are not optimized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetravel time efficiencyVSAvoidposition determination and adaptability system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses a multi-functional approach where the position determination mechanism serves multiple purposes: it tracks the vehicle location, monitors the user device location, calculates optimal meeting points, and provides navigation guidance. By making the position determination system universal and multi-functional, the patent avoids adding separate dedicated systems for each function, thereby reducing overall complexity while achieving multiple benefits including reduced travel time and energy consumption.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically determines positions, calculates optimal meeting points, and generates navigation routes without requiring manual user input or complex configuration. The functionality adapts automatically based on the determined positions of the vehicle and user device, making the system self-sufficient and reducing the complexity of user interaction while improving productivity through optimized travel routes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of time

If real-time position tracking and adaptive functionality are implemented, then user mobility comfort and efficiency are enhanced, but energy consumption and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime to return to vehicleVSAvoidenergy consumption of tracking and adaptation system
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements position tracking and meeting point calculation selectively rather than continuously at full capacity. It determines positions and calculates optimal meeting points based on triggering conditions such as when the user moves beyond a certain distance from the vehicle or when the vehicle itself moves. This partial action approach reduces energy consumption while still achieving the goal of minimizing time to return to the vehicle by providing timely meeting point suggestions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

4Adaptability or versatility

If the system adapts functionality based on determined positions, then the functionality becomes more versatile and user-specific, but the system complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperson-specific and situation-specific functionalityVSAvoidfunctionality adaptation system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies adaptability locally rather than globally - it determines positions and calculates meeting points specifically for the current situation and user context, rather than maintaining complex adaptive logic for all possible scenarios. The functionality adapts to the local conditions (current positions, environmental factors) without requiring a comprehensive complex system that handles every possible situation, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining person-specific and situation-specific versatility where needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP4418699A1Method, system and computer product relating to individual mobility
Publication Date: 2024.08.21 BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AG
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AI summary

A method (200) for performing a functionality related to individual mobility is described. The method (200) comprises determining (201) at least one first position of a vehicle (100) and determining (202) at least one second position of a user device (120) of a user (121) of the vehicle (100). Furthermore, the method (200) comprises determining and/or adapting (203) a functionality of the vehicle (100) and/or the user device (120) depending on the first position and the second position.