Vehicle Control System for Autonomous Delivery Privacy Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
In autonomous driving for deliveries, the need to input a delivery site address can result in the address being leaked to the delivery agent, compromising privacy protection.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle control system that includes a preliminary destination/area setting section, a travel control section, a position information acquisition section, and a switchover section, allowing the vehicle to autonomously drive to a set preliminary destination or area and then switch to a remotely operated or manually driven state, enabling the recipient to take possession of the parcel without revealing the exact delivery site address.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the vehicle autonomously drives directly to the delivery site, then delivery efficiency is improved, but the delivery site address is leaked to the delivery agent
Solution Approach 1:
The delivery journey is segmented into two phases: autonomous driving to a preliminary destination (public area), and then manual/remote driving to the final delivery site. This segmentation allows the autonomous vehicle to drop off the parcel at a safe, public location without revealing the private delivery address, thus resolving the contradiction between delivery efficiency and address privacy protection
Solution Approach 2:
A preliminary destination acts as an intermediary location between the autonomous vehicle's capability and the final delivery site. The vehicle autonomously drives to this intermediary point, and then the recipient takes over for the final leg, serving as a mediator that protects the delivery agent's privacy while maintaining delivery efficiency
2Loss of information
If the delivery agent manually drives to the delivery site, then privacy protection is improved, but delivery efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous vehicle performs preliminary action by delivering the parcel to a preliminary destination close to the final delivery site. This preliminary delivery action protects privacy while maintaining efficiency, as the recipient can easily complete the final short distance to their actual location without requiring the delivery agent to travel the entire route
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AI summary
A vehicle control system that sets a preliminary destination or a preliminary destination area toward which a vehicle heads in an autonomously driven state; that causes the vehicle to travel in the autonomously driven state to the preliminary destination or the preliminary destination area set by the preliminary destination/area setting section; that acquires position information for the vehicle; and that switches a driving state of the vehicle from the autonomously driven state to a manually driven state or a remotely operated driven state when the vehicle has been detected to have arrived at the preliminary destination or in the preliminary destination area based on the position information.