Autonomous Vehicle Parking Positioning for In-Car Temperature Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles face challenges in maintaining optimal in-car temperature during parking, which affects user comfort and fuel efficiency, and existing systems do not efficiently adjust temperature settings to minimize air conditioning usage.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and system that includes sensors to gather environmental data, a communication device to connect with a control server, and a controller to perform autonomous driving and parking to an optimal or temporary position based on expected in-car temperature and outdoor conditions, adjusting internal temperature settings accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If air conditioning is continuously operated to maintain in-car temperature, then user comfort is improved, but fuel consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by selecting optimal parking positions with favorable thermal environments (such as shaded areas) before the vehicle is parked. This advance planning allows the in-car temperature to remain more stable during parking, reducing the need for continuous air conditioning operation and thereby lowering fuel consumption while maintaining user comfort.
2Use of energy by moving object
If the vehicle moves to optimize parking position for temperature control, then fuel efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a control server as an intermediary that handles the complex computations for selecting optimal parking positions. The server receives environmental information from multiple sources, processes this data to determine temperature-optimal locations, and provides recommendations to the vehicle. This distributes the computational complexity from the vehicle to the server, allowing the vehicle to achieve fuel efficiency through intelligent parking selection without bearing the full burden of system complexity.
3Measurement precision
If environmental monitoring and position adjustment are implemented, then temperature control accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control server performs multiple functions: it collects environmental information from various sources, determines optimal parking positions based on temperature considerations, and provides guidance to vehicles. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional system, the patent achieves high temperature control accuracy through comprehensive environmental monitoring and intelligent position selection, while avoiding the need for each individual component to be overly complex.
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AI summary
An apparatus, a system, and a method for controlling an in-car temperature of an autonomous vehicle are provided. The control server determines an expected in-car temperature according to a re-riding time of each of one or more parking positions corresponding to a destination or a re-riding position of an autonomous vehicle, selects an optimal parking position or a temporary parking position based on the expected in-car temperature and an outdoor air temperature according to the re-riding time, transmits information about the optimal parking position or the temporary parking position to the autonomous vehicle. The controller of the autonomous vehicle is configured to perform autonomous driving and autonomous parking depending on the information about the optimal parking position or the temporary parking position, recognizes a voice of a user, determines autonomous driving related control corresponding to the voice of the user, and performs the autonomous driving related control corresponding to the voice of the user.