Self-Propelled Printer Service Area Control via Beacon Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing service providing systems face challenges in efficiently delivering services to users within designated areas while avoiding service prohibition zones and ensuring accurate user positioning for self-propelled apparatuses.
Innovation Solution
A service providing system comprising a moving apparatus and a service provision instruction apparatus that utilizes beacons for user positioning and wireless communication to instruct self-propelled printers or robots to provide services within service provision areas while avoiding service prohibition areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a self-propelled printer moves autonomously to provide printing services, then service automation and user convenience are improved, but the risk of entering service prohibition areas and causing inappropriate service delivery increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service provision instruction apparatus continuously monitors the position of the self-propelled printer and the user via beacons, and dynamically adjusts service provision instructions based on real-time position information. This feedback mechanism ensures the printer stops or changes direction when approaching service prohibition areas, resolving the contradiction between automation and service delivery accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The service provision instruction apparatus acts as an intermediary between the self-propelled printer and the user. It receives position information from beacons, determines whether the user is in a service provision or prohibition area, and generates appropriate service provision instructions. This intermediary layer prevents the printer from autonomously making incorrect decisions about where to provide service.
2Measurement precision
If the system uses beacons for user positioning to enable accurate service delivery, then position recognition accuracy is improved, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The beacon devices serve multiple functions: they provide position information for both the user and the self-propelled printer, enable area classification (service provision vs. prohibition areas), and support real-time tracking. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate positioning systems, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity while maintaining high position recognition accuracy.
3Reliability
If the service provision instruction apparatus continuously monitors user position to prevent service in prohibition areas, then service restriction compliance is improved, but the loss of time for position recognition and processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service provision instruction apparatus pre-defines service provision areas and service prohibition areas before the self-propelled printer begins operation. These areas are established in advance based on beacon positions, so when the printer and user move through the space, the system can quickly determine area classification without complex real-time calculations, reducing position recognition time while maintaining compliance reliability.
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AI summary
A service providing system includes a moving apparatus and a service provision instruction apparatus. The moving apparatus moves to a user who is within a service provision area within a predetermined zone, the predetermined zone including the service provision area and a service prohibition area, and provides a service to the user. The service provision instruction apparatus recognizes a position of a user within the zone and instructs the moving apparatus to provide a service to the user when the user is within the service provision area.