Vehicle Package Placement Guidance Using Recipient Attributes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current techniques for package delivery using vehicles lack efficiency in determining the optimal placement location within the vehicle, often leading to mistakes due to insufficient recipient attribute consideration.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that acquires recipient attribute information, such as height or arm length, to determine the appropriate placement location within the vehicle and presents this information to the depositor, either through voice or image, ensuring accurate placement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If the vehicle delivers packages without considering recipient attributes, then the delivery process is simple and quick, but the package placement accuracy decreases leading to mistakes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepackage placement accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing by acquiring recipient attribute information (height, arm length) before the vehicle delivers the package. The information processing device calculates the optimal placement location in advance based on these attributes, so that when the package is loaded, the correct location is already determined, improving placement accuracy without adding operational complexity during delivery

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

An information processing device is introduced as an intermediary between the recipient attribute data and the vehicle placement decision. This intermediary component processes the attribute information, determines optimal placement locations, and provides guidance to the depositor, thereby improving accuracy while keeping the vehicle system itself relatively simple

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If the vehicle autonomously travels between production lines, then labor costs are reduced and efficiency increases, but the risk of incorrect package placement increases without human judgment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedelivery efficiencyVSAvoidpackage placement reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by presenting the determined placement location information back to the depositor through voice or image output. This feedback loop allows the autonomous vehicle system to receive verification and correction input, ensuring that the automated placement decisions are accurate and reliable while maintaining high delivery efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The information processing device performs self-service by automatically acquiring recipient attributes, calculating optimal placement locations, and providing guidance without requiring human intervention in the decision-making process. This maintains autonomous operation efficiency while ensuring reliable placement through systematic processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11953906B2Information processing device, method, and non-transitory storage medium

Publication Date: 2024.04.09 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK

AI summary

An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire information indicating an attribute of a recipient of a package, acquire information indicating a location for placing the package in a vehicle, and present a depositor of the package with the information indicating the location for placing the package and the information indicating the attribute of the recipient.