Navigational Containers for Autonomous Route Authorization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous aerial and terrestrial vehicles lack a reliable means to determine the optimal navigation path and comply with local regulations, leading to mission failures, excessive costs, and violations of regulatory policies.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that involve mission operators requesting routing authorization and instructions, which are assessed using navigational containers that collect and evaluate mission attributes, policies, and authorizations to determine authorized navigation paths and routes, ensuring compliance with regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If autonomous vehicles navigate without automated routing authorization and regulatory assessment, then navigation speed and operational autonomy are improved, but compliance with local regulations deteriorates and mission failure risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary assessment of routing authorization and regulatory compliance before the autonomous vehicle executes navigation. The assessment unit evaluates mission attributes, vehicle attributes, and payload attributes against stored policies, rules, and authorizations in advance, allowing the vehicle to navigate quickly once authorized while ensuring compliance beforehand.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary assessment unit and navigational container system that mediates between the autonomous vehicle's navigation requests and regulatory requirements. This intermediary automatically evaluates compliance without requiring real-time human intervention, thus maintaining navigation speed while ensuring regulatory adherence.
2Reliability
If manual routing authorization and regulatory assessment are implemented for autonomous vehicles, then regulatory compliance is improved, but mission operation time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous vehicle system performs self-assessment of its own compliance attributes against stored policies and rules. The assessment unit automatically evaluates mission attributes, vehicle attributes, and payload attributes without requiring external manual review, enabling the system to serve itself in the compliance verification process and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical review processes with automated electronic assessment. The assessment unit uses logical instructions and algorithms to automatically evaluate compliance, substituting human reviewers with an automated system that processes compliance checks rapidly without physical or manual constraints.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive regulatory policies and rules are enforced for autonomous vehicle navigation, then compliance accuracy is improved, but system complexity and assessment difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex regulatory framework into discrete navigational containers, each containing specific policies, rules, and authorizations for particular geographic regions or mission types. The assessment unit evaluates compliance against individual containers sequentially, breaking down the complex overall compliance task into manageable segments that can be processed systematically.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of regulatory enforcement from abstract legal concepts to concrete, machine-readable attributes stored in navigational containers. Mission attributes, vehicle attributes, and payload attributes are transformed into comparable parameters that can be automatically evaluated against stored policies, rules, and authorizations, enabling precise automated compliance assessment.
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AI summary
Methods and systems of prescribing navigational instructions to autonomous vehicle, aerial as well as terrestrial, are discussed. In one embodiment, mission relevant data is collected and passed to an assessment unit. The assessment unit assess data relevant to the mission, rules and authorizations. The assessment unit either approves the mission by sending mission instructions or denies the mission by sending a rejection response. A mission is an assembly of one or more navigational containers, a navigational container being a repository for navigational guidance and rule-based authorization assessment.