Automated Valet Parking Guidance With Segmented Route Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern cities face challenges with vehicle parking, including collisions, traffic congestion, difficulty in locating empty spots, and inconvenience in retrieving parked vehicles.
Innovation Solution
An automated valet parking system that allows vehicles to autonomously move to and from designated parking spots and pickup areas, guided by infrastructure communication, using sensors and control units to navigate and avoid obstacles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the entire guide route is provided to the vehicle, then the vehicle can navigate to the target position, but power consumption increases and guide routes may interfere with each other
Solution Approach 1:
The guide route is divided into multiple segments based on the vehicle's current position and movement state. Only the relevant segment (e.g., from current position to next checkpoint) is provided to the vehicle at any given time, rather than the entire route. This segmentation reduces the amount of information the vehicle must process and display, thereby reducing power consumption while maintaining reliable navigation through progressive guidance.
2Productivity
If multiple guide routes are provided simultaneously, then multiple vehicles can navigate, but guide routes interfere with each other
Solution Approach 1:
Each guide route is customized to the specific local conditions of its path, including vehicle type, current position, and environmental factors. The guide route information is tailored locally rather than using a universal approach, allowing multiple vehicles to have optimized, non-interfering routes. This local customization enables better spatial and temporal coordination of multiple vehicles in the parking facility.
3Ease of operation
If automated valet parking is implemented, then driver convenience is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The parking system operates autonomously without requiring driver intervention. The vehicle independently communicates with the management server, receives guidance, navigates to the target parking spot, and executes parking maneuvers on its own. This self-service capability maximizes driver convenience while the system handles all complex operations automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
A management server acts as an intermediary between vehicles and the parking infrastructure. The server coordinates multiple vehicles, manages parking spot assignments, and provides guide route information, thereby centralizing system complexity in a dedicated control unit rather than distributing it across all vehicles and infrastructure components.
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AI summary
A system for and a method of supporting automated valet parking, and an infrastructure and a vehicle for automated valet parking are provided. An operation method of the infrastructure includes initiating an automated valet parking procedure for a vehicle, determining a target position for the vehicle and a guide route leading to the target position, determining a display range of the guide route based on at least one of vehicle information, driving information, or environment information, and providing the guide route based on the display range.