Racing Coach Feedback for Real-Time Optimal Path Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional driving analysis devices fail to provide precise feedback on optimal vehicle paths and maneuvering techniques for improving racing performance, particularly for inexperienced drivers, lacking real-time guidance on steering, acceleration, and deceleration.
Innovation Solution
A racing coach device equipped with sensors, a processing element, and a display provides real-time feedback and coaching on optimal vehicle paths, including lateral position, velocity, acceleration, deceleration, and steering input, using GPS, cameras, and motion sensors to analyze previous laps and suggest improvements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional driving analysis devices simply provide lap times or basic GPS location data, then the device complexity is low, but the measurement precision and usefulness of driving feedback is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple data sources including GPS receiver, motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer), brake sensor, and video camera into a single integrated racing coach device. This merging of components allows comprehensive data collection and analysis while presenting unified feedback to the driver, resolving the contradiction between detailed measurement precision and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The processing element acts as an intermediary that receives raw data from multiple sensors, analyzes the information against stored reference track logs, and generates meaningful feedback instructions. This intermediary processing layer transforms complex sensor data into actionable driving instructions, maintaining measurement precision while managing system complexity through centralized intelligence.
2Measurement precision
If conventional devices compare track log to reference track log using computing devices, then some performance analysis is provided, but the feedback is not precise enough for optimal racing line determination
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the racetrack into multiple geographic locations and divides the driving performance into specific maneuverable elements such as steering input, acceleration, deceleration, and lateral position. By analyzing each segment and maneuver separately against reference data, the system determines precise optimal paths while retaining detailed information about specific driving actions rather than losing information in aggregated lap time comparisons.
3Loss of time
If video footage is recorded for subsequent playback, then visual feedback is provided, but real-time coaching during the activity is not available
Solution Approach 1:
The processing element stores reference track logs and optimal path data beforehand, enabling real-time comparison and feedback generation during the racing activity. By preparing reference data in advance and having the processing element continuously compare current GPS and sensor data against these pre-stored references, the system provides real-time audible and visual coaching without time delay, while managing complexity through pre-computed reference frameworks.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus can comprise a memory and a processing element. The processing element can receive braking data of an vehicle and generate audible braking information based on the braking data. The apparatus can further include a speaker coupled to the processing element. The speaker coupled to the processing element can provide the audible braking information.