Vehicle Remote Parking Gaze Monitoring Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle control systems for remote parking do not effectively ensure that users monitor the vehicle's movement during remote operation, as they typically require users to watch the remote operation button instead of the vehicle.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle control system that includes a terminal with an input/output unit and an operator monitoring unit to capture the user's gaze direction, prohibiting vehicle movement if the user is not looking at the vehicle and allowing movement only when the user directs their sightline to the vehicle within a prescribed period.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user watches the terminal while performing remote operation, then the operation input can be accurately entered, but the user cannot monitor the movement of the vehicle
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an operator monitoring unit to capture images of the user's face and determines the direction of the sightline. This feedback mechanism monitors whether the user is looking at the terminal or the vehicle, and provides feedback by permitting or prohibiting vehicle movement accordingly. The sightline direction information is fed back to the control device to automatically control vehicle movement permissions.
2Reliability
If the system prohibits vehicle movement when the user looks at the terminal, then the user is urged to monitor the vehicle, but the operation convenience is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the permission for vehicle movement based on the real-time detected direction of the user's sightline. When the user looks at the vehicle, movement is permitted; when the user looks at the terminal, movement is prohibited. This dynamic adjustment allows the system to adapt to the user's attention focus, maintaining safety while enabling convenient operation when appropriate conditions are met.
3Reliability
If the system uses operator monitoring to determine sightline direction, then the user attention can be monitored, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The operator monitoring unit acts as an intermediary that captures images of the user's face and extracts sightline direction information. This intermediary component simplifies the overall system architecture by consolidating the monitoring function in a dedicated unit that processes visual information and communicates the results to the control device, rather than requiring complex integrated monitoring throughout the system.
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AI summary
A vehicle control system includes: a terminal including an input/output unit configured to accept an operation input by a user and to display a notification to the user and an operator monitoring unit configured to monitor the user performing the operation input; and a control device configured to perform remote parking processing to move and park a vehicle in response to the operation input by the user, wherein, in the remote parking processing, the control device is configured to obtain a direction of a sightline of the user based on information obtained by the operator monitoring unit, and prohibit a movement of the vehicle in a case where the control device determines that the sightline of the user is directed to the terminal.