Autonomous Vehicle Guidance via Infrastructure Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current autonomous vehicle technologies require high-performance sensor systems, leading to high development costs and limiting self-travel capabilities to only local circumstance information, as they fail to consider global area circumstances.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle guiding apparatus and method utilizing information technology infrastructures, comprising sensing devices, local servers, and a global server to collect and analyze circumstance information, creating a guidance route for vehicles to travel safely and efficiently across various areas, including global considerations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If high-performance sensor systems are applied to autonomous vehicles, then the vehicle can recognize and determine outer circumstances, but the development cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces information technology infrastructures (sensing devices, local servers, global servers) as intermediaries between the vehicle and the external environment. These infrastructures collect and process circumstance information along the traveling way, allowing the vehicle to access global area information without requiring expensive high-performance sensors on the vehicle itself.
2Area of stationary object
If vehicle-based sensor systems are used, then local circumstance information can be obtained, but global area circumstance information cannot be acquired
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a vehicle-centered local perception model to a infrastructure-based global perception model. By deploying sensing devices and servers along the traveling way (spatial dimension extension), the system achieves global area coverage and information collection that extends far beyond the vehicle's immediate surroundings.
Solution Approach 2:
The information technology infrastructures serve as intermediaries that collect and transmit global circumstance information to vehicles, enabling access to area information that would be impossible for vehicle-based sensors to capture alone.
3Extent of automation
If expensive high-performance sensors are installed in vehicles, then autonomous traveling capability is achieved, but the system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex sensing and information processing functions from the vehicle and relocates them to the infrastructure (sensing devices, local servers, global servers). This allows the vehicle to achieve autonomous traveling capability with simpler onboard systems while relying on the external infrastructure for comprehensive circumstance information.
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AI summary
An apparatus is for guiding a vehicle traveling of a vehicle by using information technology infrastructures. The apparatus includes: a control terminal for controlling the vehicle traveling; sensing devices that collect circumstance information of guidance areas desirous of guiding the vehicle by using the information technology infrastructures provided on the guidance areas; and a server device that recognizes a circumstance of the guidance areas to create a guidance route based on the collected circumstance information by the sensing device so that the control terminal controls the vehicle to travel along the guidance route.