Pick-Up Zone Routing Using Pre-Matched AV-PDZ Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) face challenges in efficiently finding and utilizing pick-up/drop-off zones (PDZs) that are permissible and capable for their operational limitations, leading to unnecessary time consumption and reduced service efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A PDZ management platform that registers associations between AVs and PDZs based on registration data, providing responses to AVs with usable PDZs for pick-up or drop-off operations, and facilitating vehicle routing to these zones.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If AVs search for PDZs without pre-established associations, then they can potentially find any available zone, but they consume unnecessary time and reduce service efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing associations between AVs and compatible PDZs during registration. The PDZ management platform stores these pre-evaluated associations, allowing AVs to directly access usable zones without real-time searching, thus resolving the time efficiency problem while maintaining adaptability through pre-computed compatibility data
2Productivity
If AVs use a centralized PDZ management platform, then they can efficiently find usable zones, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The PDZ management platform acts as an intermediary between AVs and PDZs. It maintains the association database, processes compatibility evaluations, and provides recommendations to AVs. This centralized mediator simplifies the overall system architecture by consolidating management functions in one place rather than distributing complexity across multiple AV systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses data structures and digital representations (copies) of PDZ associations and vehicle capabilities stored in the platform. These digital copies allow efficient querying and matching without requiring physical inspection or complex real-time computations, thereby improving productivity while managing system complexity through information abstraction
3Loss of time
If AVs register with the PDZ management platform, then they gain access to pre-evaluated PDZ associations, but the registration process adds operational steps
Solution Approach 1:
The registration process performs preliminary actions by pre-evaluating and storing PDZ associations during the initial setup phase. Once registered, AVs benefit from having compatibility data already computed and stored, eliminating the need for complex real-time evaluations and reducing operational time for locating suitable zones
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AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure include systems, methods, and devices to facilitate routing of an autonomous vehicle (AV) based on pick-up or drop-off zones (PDZs) that are usable by the AV at destination location. A request for one or more PDZs that are usable by a vehicle to perform a pick-up or drop-off operation at a specified location is received from a vehicular autonomy system of the vehicle. A set of PDZs that are usable by the vehicle at the specified location is identified based on an association between information associated with vehicle and one or more PDZ objects in a data store. Each PDZ object comprising data describing a PDZ. A response is generated based on the set of PDZs and transmitted to the vehicular autonomy system. The response includes at least one PDZ identifier to the set of PDZs.