Driving Route Segmentation for Accurate Resource-Efficient Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for evaluating fuel efficiency in motor vehicles do not account for specific route portions, are limited to vehicles with similar specifications, and cannot adjust driving modes to reduce resource consumption or generate resource-efficient driving routes.
Innovation Solution
A method that determines a vehicle's location on a route, generates a modified resource-efficient driving track, and adjusts it based on route conditions to optimize resource usage, allowing for different vehicle specifications and time-dependent operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If existing fuel efficiency evaluation methods are used, then fuel consumption can be estimated, but the accuracy is reduced because specific route portions are not considered
Solution Approach 1:
The route is divided into multiple portions with different characteristics (urban, suburban, highway). Each portion is analyzed separately to determine specific fuel consumption rates, which are then combined to calculate total fuel consumption. This segmentation approach improves accuracy by accounting for variations in driving conditions across different route segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-stores fuel consumption data for different route portions and vehicle types in a database. When evaluating a specific route, the system retrieves and combines relevant pre-calculated data for each route portion, avoiding the need to perform complex real-time calculations while maintaining high accuracy.
2Measurement precision
If fuel efficiency evaluation is limited to vehicles with similar specifications, then evaluation accuracy for similar vehicles is improved, but the method cannot be used in a global fuel consumption control system comprising multiple vehicles with different specifications
Solution Approach 1:
The evaluation system is designed to handle multiple vehicle types and specifications by storing fuel consumption data for various vehicle categories in the database. The system can evaluate fuel consumption for any vehicle by matching it with appropriate reference data from the database, making it universally applicable to global fuel consumption control systems while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adjusts evaluation parameters based on vehicle specifications by selecting appropriate reference vehicles from the database that match the target vehicle's type, weight class, and other relevant parameters. This dynamic parameter adjustment allows accurate evaluation across diverse vehicle fleets.
3Reliability
If existing methods are used to identify operational problems, then vehicle maintenance issues can be detected, but the method cannot be used to change driving mode to reduce resource consumption on a given route portion
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to the driver about fuel consumption patterns on different route portions and suggests optimal driving modes for each segment. Based on the evaluated fuel consumption data, the system recommends specific driving behaviors (e.g., acceleration patterns, speed maintenance) that can reduce resource consumption while maintaining reliable operation detection.
4Loss of energy
If resource-efficient driving routes are generated, then resource consumption is reduced, but the system must process and modify multiple tracks which increases complexity
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of optimizing the entire route at once, the system identifies and optimizes specific portions of the route that contribute most to fuel consumption. By focusing computational resources on critical segments (such as urban portions with stop-and-go traffic), the system achieves significant energy savings while limiting processing complexity to only the most impactful areas.
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AI summary
The proposed invention relates to methods for controlling resource consumption by a motor vehicle, and can be used in transportation industry. The technical problem to be solved by the claimed invention is to provide a method, a device, a system, a motor vehicle, and a computer-readable medium that do not possess the drawbacks of the prior art and thus make it possible to generate a modified resource-efficient driving route for a motor vehicle using a variety of modified resource-efficient tracks that allows motor vehicles to move along these routes in a resource-efficient way, in accordance with user's needs.