Autonomous Parking Map Generation via Data Maturity Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current autonomous parking map generation methods require user participation and supervision, leading to user frustration and reduced efficiency due to potential abnormalities or failures during the mapping process, necessitating multiple parking attempts.

Innovation Solution

A method that collects and compares parking data from multiple instances to generate a confirmed parking map autonomously, using maturity determination conditions to score and validate the data, allowing for autonomous data collection and comparison without frequent user intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If user participation and supervision are required throughout the mapping process, then mapping reliability can be improved through user verification, but user experience deteriorates due to negative emotions and tension when abnormalities or failures occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemapping reliabilityVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables autonomous self-service mapping by allowing the vehicle to automatically complete the mapping process without user intervention. The mapping module autonomously collects parking data, performs comparisons, and generates parking maps, eliminating the need for users to manually verify or adjust mapping parameters, thus resolving the contradiction between reliability and user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts the user from the mapping process by removing the requirement for user participation and supervision. The system takes out the human element from the loop, allowing automated systems to handle data collection, comparison, and map generation independently, thereby improving user experience while maintaining reliability through automated verification mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Manufacturing precision

If user participation is required throughout the mapping process, then mapping accuracy can be improved through user adjustments, but mapping efficiency deteriorates due to multiple parking attempts needed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemapping accuracyVSAvoidmapping efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automated feedback mechanisms where the mapping module continuously compares parking data from multiple parkings, automatically identifies discrepancies, and refines the parking map without user intervention. This closed-loop feedback system maintains high mapping accuracy while improving efficiency by eliminating the need for multiple user-driven parking attempts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-collecting and pre-comparing parking data from multiple parkings before final map generation. The mapping module prepares the parking map in advance through automated data processing and comparison, ensuring accuracy is achieved through systematic preliminary analysis rather than repeated user adjustments during actual parking operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If multiple parking attempts are required for user cooperation, then mapping completeness can be improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemapping completenessVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system maintains continuous useful action by automatically collecting parking data from multiple parkings without requiring user intervention between attempts. The mapping module continuously processes data in the background, performing comparisons and refining the parking map throughout the parking process, thereby achieving complete mapping while minimizing time loss by eliminating repeated user engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentEP4116955B1Mapping method and device, generation method and device, and mapping system of parking map
Publication Date: 2024.10.30 GUANGZHOU XIAOPENG MOTORS TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a mapping method, mapping device, generation method, generation device, and mapping system of a parking map. The mapping method includes: collecting parking data of at least two parkings from a vehicle terminal, the parking data indicating a parking route and a parking space; performing comparison among the collected parking data; building, for at least two parkings having identical parking data, a to-be-confirmed parking map corresponding to the identical parking data; transmitting the to-be-confirmed parking map to the vehicle terminal for parking data comparison with current parking data; and receiving feedback information generated by the vehicle terminal based on a result of the parking data comparison, and confirming or adjusting the to-be-confirmed parking map in accordance with the feedback information. With the solutions provided by the present disclosure, it can be avoided that an abnormality or failure, when occurring in the mapping process, brings the user with the negative emotions and tension, thereby avoiding user's bad experience. In the meantime, the user does not need to park multiple times to cooperate with the mapping, thereby improving the mapping efficiency.