Automatic Parking Route Generation from Training Driving Paths

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing driving assistance systems generate training routes with unnecessary turns and deviations, leading to inefficient automatic parking operations.

Innovation Solution

A driving assistance apparatus that generates a target route by connecting points on the training route where the vehicle's orientation difference and distance are within certain thresholds, eliminating unnecessary turns and optimizing the path for automatic parking.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the vehicle travels back and forth to change traveling direction during training traveling, then the vehicle can reach the parking space, but the traveling route includes unnecessary routes that increase travel time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle maneuverabilityVSAvoidtravel time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and removes unnecessary routes from the training traveling data. The route generation unit identifies and eliminates redundant back-and-forth traveling segments, keeping only the essential path from the initial position to the parking space, thereby reducing travel time while maintaining maneuverability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of directly recording the actual training traveling route with all its inefficiencies, the system inverts the approach by generating an optimized route from the training data. It reconstructs the route by connecting key position points directly, rather than following the original inefficient path, thus achieving time savings

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Extent of automation

If the system uses the original training traveling route as the target route, then the automatic parking can be executed, but the vehicle performs unnecessary traveling every time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic parking executionVSAvoidparking operation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary route optimization during the training phase. The route generation unit pre-processes the training traveling data to create an optimized target route that eliminates unnecessary segments. This preliminary action ensures that subsequent automatic parking operations execute efficiently without repeating wasted travel

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates an optimized copy of the training route rather than using the original. The route generation unit generates a new target route that copies only the essential positioning information from the training data, eliminating redundant segments while preserving the necessary parking maneuver information

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20250360918A1Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and recording medium storing driving assistance program and readable by computer
Publication Date: 2025.11.27 PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYST CO LTD
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AI summary

A driving assistance method of performing automatic traveling of a vehicle based on a driving operation of a user is provided. The driving assistance method: stores a traveling route traveled by the vehicle according to the driving operation of the user in a training traveling mode; displays the traveling route from a traveling start position to a target parking position in the training traveling mode; and displays a target route from the traveling start position to the target parking position in an automatic traveling mode. The target route in the automatic traveling mode is shorter than the traveling route in the training traveling mode, and a first number of turns of the vehicle in the training traveling mode is same as a second number of turns of the vehicle in the automatic traveling mode.