Vehicle Parking Buffer Control Near Garage Walls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in parking vehicles in garages or public parking lots, often resulting in inconvenience or damage due to incorrect judgment of distance from walls or barriers, which can affect the vehicle's exterior and performance.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle system that assists users in parking by determining and maintaining a preset buffer distance from garage walls or lot barriers, providing audio alerts and autonomous stopping when the distance approaches the set limit, ensuring optimal parking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the user parks the vehicle manually without assistance, then the user has full control over parking position, but the user may incorrectly judge the distance from walls or barriers causing inconvenience or damage
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors the distance between the vehicle and surrounding obstacles using sensors, and provides real-time feedback to the user through audio alerts and visual displays. This feedback loop enables the user to park manually with enhanced distance judgment accuracy without completely taking away user control.
Solution Approach 2:
The parking assist system acts as an intermediary between the user and the parking environment. It processes sensor data about walls and barriers, calculates optimal parking positions, and presents this information to the user, thereby improving distance judgment accuracy while maintaining ease of operation.
2Reliability
If the system provides autonomous stopping to prevent contact with walls, then vehicle safety is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system includes autonomous stopping capability that can automatically prevent the vehicle from contacting walls or barriers without requiring continuous user intervention. This self-service feature improves vehicle protection while the modular architecture keeps system complexity manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting obstacles and calculating safe stopping points before the vehicle actually reaches them. This proactive approach prevents damage before it occurs, improving reliability while using straightforward sensor-and-controller architecture to limit complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the user sets adjustable buffer distances for different parking locations, then adaptability is improved, but the ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows the buffer distance to be dynamically adjusted based on the specific parking location and user preferences. Users can set different buffer distances for different locations, and the system adapts automatically, providing high adaptability while maintaining ease of operation through automated application of settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the buffer distance parameter according to different parking locations and scenarios. Users can configure location-specific parameters, and the system automatically applies the appropriate buffer distance for each location, achieving adaptability without requiring manual adjustment during each parking event.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle including a sensor unit and a processor is disclosed. The sensor unit may be configured to capture sensor inputs associated with the vehicle's surroundings. The processor may be configured to determine that the vehicle is located at a predefined location, and determine a presence of an object in proximity to a predefined vehicle portion based on the sensor inputs responsive to determining that the vehicle may be located at the predefined location. The processor may further determine a distance between the predefined vehicle portion and the object based on the sensor inputs, responsive to determining the object presence. The processor may perform a remedial action responsive to determining that the distance may be equivalent to or approaching a preset buffer distance.