Vehicle Control System Coordinating Autonomous Meeting Points
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle control systems fail to efficiently facilitate meetings between users on different vehicles, particularly when one user is on a vehicle that can autonomously travel, leading to underutilization of idle time.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle control system that includes a center server managing multiple vehicles, capable of autonomously determining meeting points and transmitting move commands to vehicles to facilitate user meetings, allowing users to meet more efficiently and effectively utilize their time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a vehicle control system coordinates meetings between users on different vehicles, then user meeting efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A center server acts as an intermediary between multiple vehicles, receiving matching requests, determining meeting points, and transmitting move commands. This mediator approach allows complex coordination logic to be centralized in the server rather than distributed across each vehicle, improving meeting efficiency while managing system complexity through centralized control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments functionality between the center server (matching request reception, meeting point determination) and individual vehicles (autonomous travel to meeting points). This segmentation allows each component to focus on specific tasks, improving overall system efficiency while keeping individual components relatively simple.
2Speed
If autonomous vehicles are used for user meetings, then meeting speed is improved, but control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Autonomous vehicles perform self-service by automatically traveling to determined meeting points without requiring manual driver intervention. The vehicles autonomously execute move commands received from the center server, improving meeting speed while the control complexity is managed through automated systems rather than human coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual mechanical control (human drivers operating vehicles) with automated electronic control systems. The center server transmits electronic move commands that are automatically executed by the vehicles' autonomous control systems, increasing meeting speed while shifting control complexity to automated systems.
3Loss of time
If meeting coordination is implemented across multiple vehicles, then time utilization is improved, but communication requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The center server provides universal communication functionality, serving as a single point of contact for all vehicles. Instead of requiring direct peer-to-peer communication between multiple vehicles (which would increase communication complexity), all coordination information flows through the universal server, improving time utilization while managing communication requirements through a centralized hub.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a vehicle control system including a plurality of vehicles, a storage that stores information relating to a user who is on a vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles, at least one processor configured to receive a matching request for requesting meeting with a user who is on one of the plurality of vehicles, specify a first vehicle which a first user matching the matching request is on, on the basis of the information stored in the storage and perform control on the first vehicle so as to let the first vehicle and a requesting source of the matching request meet each other.