Vehicle Micro-Navigation for Unmapped Site Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing navigation systems fail to provide precise guidance for vehicles to navigate within destination sites, such as warehouses, where unmapped routes and vehicle-specific constraints are not adequately addressed, leading to inefficiencies and potential operational challenges.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for micro-navigation that collects and refines route data using geo-coordinates, physical landmarks, and vehicle-specific configurations, optimizing routes based on vehicle cohorts and performance data to ensure suitable paths are provided, considering factors like speed and maneuverability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If macro-navigation is used to guide vehicles to destination sites, then vehicles can reach the general destination area, but precise guidance to specific terminal locations within the destination site is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation system is divided into two distinct components: macro-navigation for guiding vehicles to the general destination site area, and micro-navigation for providing precise guidance to specific terminal locations within the destination site. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in its specific function, achieving high precision without requiring a single complex system to handle all navigation levels.
Solution Approach 2:
A micro-navigation guidance protocol acts as an intermediary between the macro-navigation system and the vehicle. When a vehicle arrives at a destination site, the micro-navigation protocol is activated to provide detailed turn-by-turn guidance to the specific terminal location, bridging the gap between general area navigation and precise destination guidance.
2Adaptability or versatility
If standard navigation routes are provided, then general routing is available, but vehicle-specific constraints such as size and load are not considered
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different route optimization criteria to different vehicles based on their specific characteristics. Each vehicle receives customized route guidance that accounts for its unique constraints such as size, load capacity, and maneuverability requirements, rather than applying a universal routing approach to all vehicles.
Solution Approach 2:
The route guidance system dynamically adapts to each vehicle's specific constraints and characteristics. The system adjusts route recommendations in real-time based on vehicle-specific factors, making the navigation adaptable and versatile rather than static and one-size-fits-all.
3Ease of operation
If micro-navigation guidance is activated upon arrival at destination site entrance, then precise guidance to terminal location is provided, but transition from macro to micro navigation requires coordination
Solution Approach 1:
The system prepares for the transition from macro to micro navigation in advance. Detection of the vehicle's arrival at the destination site entrance triggers the activation of the micro-navigation guidance protocol, ensuring a smooth and coordinated transition between the two navigation levels without abrupt changes or loss of guidance continuity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for micro-navigation of a mobile object (1000) is disclosed herein. Micro-navigation provides guidance to destinations that are not normally found on maps or in navigation systems. In one micro-navigation method, data is collected (1501) related to route transit to specific end points that are not typically mapped. The end points are identified (1502) by relating specific geo coordinates, or physical landmark based characteristics, or electronically described and defined end point to a an identification that will be entered and stored in a location database. Guidance (1503) is provided to vehicles traveling to those end points or destinations, with additional information relevant to a route and/or a specific vehicle and configuration updated and made available to the system.