Vehicle Function Control for Emission Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Drivers of vehicles, especially in urban areas, often fail to comply with dynamic traffic restrictions and emission bans due to lack of timely information about air quality limits and emission zones, leading to potential route disruptions or delays.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize a backend server to receive vehicle data, determine external influencing factors such as air quality and traffic regulations, and automatically adjust vehicle functions, including speed and operating modes, to ensure compliance with emission standards and navigate through restricted zones efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the driver manually monitors and responds to traffic restrictions, then the driver can potentially adjust vehicle behavior, but the response time is delayed and compliance is not guaranteed
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables the vehicle to automatically monitor traffic restrictions, determine compliance status, and adjust vehicle functions without driver intervention. The control unit continuously receives restriction data, evaluates vehicle compliance, and autonomously activates or deactivates vehicle functions to maintain compliance with emission standards.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback by monitoring traffic restriction data, vehicle emission status, and compliance conditions in real-time. The control unit receives updates on restriction changes and immediately responds by adjusting vehicle functions, creating a closed-loop control system that ensures ongoing compliance.
2Reliability
If the vehicle automatically adjusts functions based on external factors, then compliance with emission standards is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit serves multiple functions: it receives traffic restriction data, determines vehicle compliance status, evaluates multiple vehicle functions, and executes control decisions. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be separate complex systems into a single integrated control unit, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive compliance capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines data reception, compliance evaluation, and vehicle control functions into an integrated automated system. By merging these previously separate processes into a unified control architecture, the system achieves high compliance reliability without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Reliability
If the driver bypasses environmental zones to comply with restrictions, then emission compliance is maintained, but route efficiency and travel time are significantly reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts vehicle functions based on real-time restriction data and vehicle status. Rather than statically bypassing zones, the system adaptively controls emission-related functions to enable entry into environmental zones when compliance conditions are met, optimizing route efficiency while maintaining compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes vehicle operating parameters (such as emission control settings) to match restriction requirements. By adjusting vehicle function parameters in response to restriction data, the system enables compliance with emission standards while maintaining normal route efficiency, avoiding the need for detours.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a system and to a method for automatically setting vehicle functions of a vehicle, whilst taking account of external influencing factors. The system comprises at least one back-end server which is configured to receive vehicle data of the vehicle and, while taking account of at least part of the vehicle data, to determine data with regard to external influencing factors. Furthermore, the back-end server is configured to determine optimal settings of the vehicle functions of the vehicle, whilst taking account of the vehicle data and the data, with regard to the external influencing factors, and to transmit the optimum settings of the vehicle functions to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to control the vehicle functions in such a way that the optimum vehicle functions determined by the back-end server are adopted.