UGV Orientation Control for Easier Package Compartment Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) face challenges in smoothly delivering packages when they are positioned in a way that makes it difficult for users to access the package storage compartments.
Innovation Solution
The UGV is equipped with surface estimating and direction adjusting means to determine which surface with a package storage compartment is most accessible to the user and adjust its orientation accordingly before the user arrives.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the UGV waits at a delivery destination with multiple surfaces having package storage compartments, then the UGV can store packages for multiple users, but it becomes difficult for users to access the packages depending on the UGV's position
Solution Approach 1:
The UGV performs preliminary actions by estimating which surface has the package to be received next and adjusting its direction before the user arrives. This advance positioning ensures that when the user reaches the UGV, the package storage compartment is already in an easily accessible position, eliminating the need for users to navigate around the vehicle to retrieve packages
2Productivity
If the UGV has multiple surfaces with doors for package reception, then the delivery capacity increases, but the complexity of determining the correct surface for package retrieval increases
Solution Approach 1:
The UGV uses feedback mechanisms by monitoring user approach and estimating which user will receive a package next. Based on this feedback, the system automatically determines the appropriate surface with the package storage compartment and adjusts its orientation accordingly, simplifying the user's task of locating their package while maintaining high delivery capacity
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AI summary
For a user to receive a package more smoothly from an unmanned ground vehicle, a delivery system includes an unmanned ground vehicle having at least two surfaces each of which is provided with a door of a storage compartment for receiving a package and facing in different directions. The delivery system determines a surface provided with a door of a storage compartment that stores a package to be received by the user next among the at least two surfaces, and adjusts a direction of the unmanned ground vehicle based on the determined surface before the user reaches the unmanned ground vehicle.