Remote Automobile Diagnostic System with Collaborative Group Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current remote vehicle diagnosis methods are inefficient as they typically allow only one-to-one diagnosis, requiring multiple remote diagnosticians to address multiple trouble issues, leading to repetitive processes and low diagnostic efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A remote automobile diagnostic method and system that enables multiple remote terminals to collaborate by forming a diagnostician group, where one terminal with control permission can control the diagnostic device to perform diagnoses, sharing diagnostic information and adjusting it as needed, to improve efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If one-to-one remote diagnosis is used, then control simplicity is maintained, but diagnosis efficiency deteriorates when multiple trouble problems exist
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple remote terminals are merged into a single diagnostician group, allowing them to share the same diagnostic device and collaborate on multiple trouble problems simultaneously. The server combines control requests from different terminals and coordinates their access to the diagnostic device, enabling efficient multi-problem diagnosis without requiring multiple separate diagnostic sessions.
Solution Approach 2:
The diagnostician group mechanism provides universal access to the diagnostic device for multiple remote terminals. Instead of dedicating one terminal to one diagnostician, the system allows any terminal in the group to access and control the diagnostic device for different trouble problems, making the system more versatile and efficient.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple remote diagnosticians are required for multiple trouble problems, then comprehensive diagnosis coverage is improved, but process complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple remote terminals are merged into a single diagnostician group, allowing them to share the same diagnostic device and collaborate on multiple trouble problems simultaneously. The server combines control requests from different terminals and coordinates their access to the diagnostic device, enabling efficient multi-problem diagnosis without requiring multiple separate diagnostic sessions.
Solution Approach 2:
The diagnostician group enables continuous diagnosis across multiple trouble problems without interruption. While one terminal is diagnosing a problem, other terminals can prepare their diagnostic approaches or analyze results in real-time, maintaining continuous productive activity rather than sequential turn-based diagnosis.
3Productivity
If multiple remote terminals share diagnostic device control, then diagnosis efficiency is improved, but control permission management becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary between multiple remote terminals and the diagnostic device. It receives control requests from any terminal in the diagnostician group, manages permission allocation, coordinates access timing, and ensures orderly control transitions. This intermediary mechanism simplifies permission management by centralizing it at the server level rather than requiring complex peer-to-peer negotiation between terminals.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a remote automobile diagnostic method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving a diagnosis joining request sent by a remote terminal, and adding the remote terminal to a diagnostician group; sending, to a remote terminal in the diagnostician group, diagnostic information uploaded by a diagnostic device; and determining, as a control terminal, the remote control with control permission in the diagnostician group, so that the control terminal controls, according to the diagnostic information, the diagnostic device to perform an automobile diagnosis operation. Accordingly, a plurality of remote terminals can collaboratively diagnose an automobile, so that diagnosis efficiency of an automobile is improved.