Ship Route Generation Combining Home and Auto Paths
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies for generating traveling routes for ships to and from harbors with complex topography or structures are inadequate, as they fail to provide a suitable route that accounts for specific harbor configurations, leading to inefficiencies in navigation.
Innovation Solution
A device and method that includes a user interface and processing circuitry to generate a traveling route by combining a home route with an auto route, using GPS, direction sensors, and radar data to create a suitable path between a ship's current location and its destination, while considering harbor-specific requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional route generation technologies are used, then general navigation is possible, but suitable routes for harbors with complex topography and structures cannot be generated
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring and storing route information for multiple harbors in advance, including specific route requirements for each harbor. This pre-prepared data enables the route generation device to quickly generate suitable routes when a ship needs to depart from or return to a harbor, resolving the contradiction between adaptability to harbor-specific configurations and navigation efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a specific route is demanded for each home harbor, then navigation suitability is improved, but route generation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the route information into multiple independent harbor-specific routes, where each harbor has its own stored route data including specific route requirements. This segmentation allows the route generation device to select and combine appropriate segments based on the ship's current harbor, simplifying the overall system complexity while maintaining high adaptability to harbor-specific configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The route generation device is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple harbors and their specific route requirements through a single integrated system. By acquiring and storing route information for plurality of harbors and generating routes based on the ship's current harbor identification, the system achieves multi-functionality that resolves the contradiction between harbor-specific route suitability and system complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If home route information is acquired and stored for multiple harbors, then route adaptability improves, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by storing route information specifically tailored to each harbor's local characteristics and requirements. Each harbor's route data includes locally-specific information such as harbor-specific route requirements, allowing the system to adapt to local conditions while managing data volume efficiently through targeted, location-specific information storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The route generation device achieves multi-functionality by handling route generation for multiple harbors through a single unified system that can identify the ship's current harbor and select appropriate pre-stored route information. This universal approach allows the system to manage diverse harbor-specific data volumes efficiently while maintaining adaptability across multiple locations.
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AI summary
A traveling route generating device is provided, which may include a user interface and processing circuitry. The user interface may receive a home route that is a route on which a ship travels upon departing from a home harbor or upon returning to the home harbor, the home harbor being a location from which the ship departs. The processing circuitry may generate a traveling route between one of a destination of the ship and a current location of the ship, and a location on the home route.