Autonomous Vehicle Arrival Time Adjustment for Facility Availability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle management systems fail to ensure that users can receive services at desired facilities at the intended time, leading to potential long waits or service unavailability due to empty seats.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle management system that acquires user desire information, sets autonomous vehicle destinations based on facility availability, and adjusts arrival times to match empty situations at the facilities, using a server to manage transport service vehicles and optimize arrival times.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the vehicle arrives at the facility at the expected arrival time, then the user can reach the facility on time, but the facility may not have empty seats available
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring facility information (including empty seat status) before the vehicle arrives at the destination. The server proactively checks whether the facility has empty seats available at the expected arrival time and uses this information to determine whether to adjust the vehicle's arrival time, ensuring service availability is confirmed before the user reaches the facility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring facility information (empty seat status) and using this information to dynamically adjust the vehicle's arrival time. The server receives feedback about the facility's empty seat situation and modifies the arrival time accordingly, creating a closed-loop control system that ensures the vehicle arrives when seats are actually available.
2Reliability
If the arrival time is adjusted to match facility empty situation, then service availability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary between the vehicle management system and the facility. It receives facility information (including empty seat status) from the facility, processes this information, and uses it to determine arrival time adjustments. This intermediary approach centralizes the complexity in the server, keeping the vehicle and facility interfaces simple while enabling coordinated operation.
3Reliability
If the vehicle waits for empty seats at the facility, then service can be provided, but user waiting time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by checking facility empty seat status before the vehicle arrives at the destination. The server acquires facility information in advance and uses it to determine the optimal arrival time, eliminating the need for the vehicle to wait at the facility for empty seats to become available.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from facility information (empty seat status) to dynamically adjust the arrival time. When the facility has empty seats available at the expected arrival time, the vehicle arrives on time without waiting. When seats are full, the arrival time is adjusted in advance, preventing unnecessary waiting at the facility.
Data Source
AI summary
Terminal used by a user includes a transmitter configured to transmit desire information required for determining a desired facility desired by the user to a server via a telecommunications network. The server includes a destination setting unit configured to set a destination of a vehicle on the basis of the desire information and a facility information acquisition unit configured to acquire, via the telecommunications network, facility information including information indicative of an empty situation of the desired facility. The vehicle includes an arrival time adjustment unit configured to manage a travel of the vehicle on the basis of the facility information to adjust an arrival time at which the vehicle arrives at the destination.