V2V Smart Parking Control for Expanding Tight Parking Spaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Self-driving vehicles face inefficiencies in securing available parking spaces due to insufficient control over parked vehicles, leading to unnecessary time spent searching for alternative parking areas when a parked vehicle occupies multiple spaces.
Innovation Solution
A smart parking system utilizing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication to measure inter-vehicle distance values, determine available parking spaces, and control the movement of parked vehicles to extend the parking space, enabling the self-driving vehicle to automatically park in the available space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a self-driving vehicle searches for available parking spaces using sensors, then it can autonomously park, but it cannot control parked vehicles that occupy multiple spaces causing search delays
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by having the parking management server identify and control the movement of parked vehicles that are occupying multiple parking spaces before the self-driving vehicle needs to park. By proactively adjusting the positions of parked vehicles based on sensor data and inter-vehicle distance measurements, the system creates available parking spaces in advance, eliminating the time delay that would otherwise occur when the self-driving vehicle searches for spaces.
2Productivity
If the parking management server controls parked vehicles to extend parking spaces, then available parking spaces can be secured, but communication infrastructure is required
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by enabling parked vehicles to autonomously measure inter-vehicle distances using their own sensors and transmit this information to the parking management server. The server then autonomously determines which parked vehicles need to move and controls their movement to create available parking spaces, without requiring complex manual intervention or additional communication infrastructure beyond standard vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.
3Quantity of substance
If a parked vehicle occupies two available parking spaces, then more vehicles can be parked, but the self-driving vehicle cannot find available spaces and must search other areas
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies dynamics by continuously monitoring inter-vehicle distance values and dynamically adjusting the positions of parked vehicles based on real-time conditions. When a parked vehicle is occupying multiple spaces, the system dynamically controls its movement to free up spaces, ensuring that parking space availability is optimized while maintaining the ability to park maximum vehicles. This dynamic adjustment prevents the time loss that would occur if the system had to search other areas.
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AI summary
A vehicle parking method in a smart parking system is provided. The vehicle parking method includes measuring, by parked vehicles, inter-vehicle distance values by using sensors embedded therein, receiving, by a parking target vehicle, the inter-vehicle distance values from the parked vehicles by using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, selecting one distance value from among the inter-vehicle distance values, and determining the selected distance value as a parking space, transmitting, by the parking target vehicle, a movement request message to two parked vehicles configuring the parking space by using the V2V communication, moving, by the two parked vehicles, based on the movement request message and extending the parking space to an available parking space, and performing, by the parking target vehicle, an automatic parking process for parking in the available parking space.