Remote Vehicle Control Feedback for Cloud Mismatch Handling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing remote control systems for vehicles face issues with reliability due to low-quality cloud instructions leading to unnecessary communication bandwidth consumption and potential control mismatches.

Innovation Solution

A system where vehicles can execute control independent of cloud instructions based on their environment, notifying the cloud of any mismatches, allowing the cloud to analyze and adjust the digital twin's completion or service provision accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the vehicle executes control based on cloud instructions, then remote control reliability is improved, but communication bandwidth is wasted when instructions have low reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveremote control reliabilityVSAvoidcommunication bandwidth consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The vehicle control unit executes cloud instructions and feeds back execution results to the cloud server. The cloud server receives this feedback and determines whether to continue providing services based on the execution results, creating a closed-loop system that improves reliability while avoiding wasted bandwidth by stopping communication when instructions are consistently unreliable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the remote control reliability based on execution results. The cloud server modifies its service provision behavior according to feedback from the vehicle, making the system adaptive rather than static. This allows the system to optimize bandwidth usage by reducing communication when reliability is low and maintaining communication when reliability is high

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If the vehicle executes control independent of cloud instructions based on traveling environment, then adaptability is improved, but control mismatch increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptabilityVSAvoidcontrol consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The control system is segmented into cloud-based control (first vehicle control) and vehicle-based control (second vehicle control). The vehicle control unit can execute cloud instructions or independently determine control based on the traveling environment, allowing the system to divide control authority according to situational needs rather than using a single unified control approach

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The vehicle control unit is empowered to independently determine and execute control actions based on the traveling environment when cloud instructions are not executed. This self-service capability allows the vehicle to adapt to environmental conditions autonomously, improving adaptability while the feedback mechanism maintains overall control consistency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12386369B2System, control device, and control method for remote control of the vehicle
Publication Date: 2025.08.12 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A system includes a vehicle and a control device. The vehicle includes a reception unit for receiving an instruction related to remote control from the control device, a vehicle control unit for executing any one of first vehicle control and second vehicle control, the first vehicle control being control based on the instruction related to the remote control, and the second vehicle control being control determined by the vehicle itself in accordance with a traveling environment, and a transmission unit for notifying a predetermined control result to the control device when the second vehicle control is executed by the vehicle control unit. The control device includes a remote control unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. When the control result is notified from the vehicle, the remote control unit of the control device executes the remote control based on a content of the control result.