Vehicle Allocation Device Selecting High-Learning Vehicles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle allocation methods do not effectively prioritize vehicles with advanced learning capabilities, leading to inefficient allocation and potential unfairness in user benefits.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle allocation device and system that selects vehicles with the highest degree of progress in learning for specific travel areas by using machine learning to analyze input and output parameters, such as air temperature and engine conditions, and communicates with vehicles and terminals to optimize allocation based on teacher data freshness and quantity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If a vehicle with low degree of progress in learning is preferentially allocated, then the learning system can maintain balance across vehicles, but the user experiences fewer advantages in use

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning balance across vehiclesVSAvoiduser advantages in use
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of allocating vehicles with low learning progress (conventional approach), the patent inverts the selection criterion to allocate vehicles with high learning progress. The vehicle selector selects a vehicle having a relatively large degree of progress in learning based on teacher data, thereby providing users with better service quality while maintaining learning balance through centralized management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Use of energy by moving object

If the vehicle allocation device learns teacher data instead of individual vehicles, then the calculation load on vehicles is reduced, but the system requires centralized processing capability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecalculation load on vehicleVSAvoidcentralized processing capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the learning function from individual vehicles and concentrates it in the vehicle allocation device. The vehicle allocation device acquires teacher data from multiple vehicles and performs centralized learning, while individual vehicles only need to provide data and receive allocation instructions, significantly reducing their calculation load.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Measurement precision

If the user specifies the area to be traveled, then the allocation accuracy is improved, but the user effort increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveallocation accuracyVSAvoiduser effort
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by allowing the vehicle allocation device to automatically estimate the area to be traveled based on the destination provided by the user. The area-to-be-traveled estimator acquires location information and determines the travel area without requiring explicit user specification, thereby maintaining allocation accuracy while reducing user effort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12056627B2Vehicle allocation device, vehicle, and terminal
Publication Date: 2024.08.06 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A vehicle allocation device allocates a vehicle in response to a vehicle allocation request from a terminal of a user, and includes a vehicle selector configured to, when acquiring the vehicle allocation request, select a vehicle having a relatively large degree of progress in learning of a relation between input and output of a parameter depending on an area to be traveled by the user from a plurality of vehicles learning a relation between input and output of a parameter depending on a predetermined area, and output a vehicle allocation instruction to the selected vehicle.