Autonomous Vehicle Pickup Tracking for Dynamic User Dispatch
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Solution Overview
Problem
In driverless taxi services, users often face inconvenience due to the need to wait at a designated pickup location, which can be time-consuming and inflexible, especially if they decide to walk towards their destination instead of waiting.
Innovation Solution
An autonomous vehicle dispatch system that includes a mobile terminal and an autonomous vehicle capable of tracking the user's position, allowing the pickup location to be dynamically adjusted based on the user's movement, enabling the vehicle to follow the user and adapt the route accordingly, thereby eliminating the need for a fixed waiting location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a designated waiting area is set as pickup location, then the autonomous vehicle can reliably pick up the user, but the user must move to the designated waiting area which reduces convenience
Solution Approach 1:
The pickup location is made dynamic instead of fixed. The autonomous vehicle continuously tracks the user's mobile terminal position and updates the pickup location in real-time. This allows the user to remain stationary or move freely while the vehicle adapts its destination to meet the user at their current position, resolving the contradiction between reliable pickup and user convenience.
2Loss of time
If the user waits at the pickup location, then the vehicle can pick up the user on time, but the user loses time that could be used to move towards the destination
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of the user waiting for the vehicle at a fixed location, the invention inverts the approach by having the vehicle actively track and follow the user's position. The vehicle monitors the user's mobile terminal and dynamically adjusts its route to intercept the user at their current or future position, eliminating the need for user waiting time and improving overall time efficiency.
3Ease of operation
If the autonomous vehicle tracks the user's position dynamically, then user convenience is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback by monitoring the user's mobile terminal position throughout the journey. The autonomous vehicle receives position updates from the user's device and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust its navigation and tracking behavior. This feedback mechanism enables convenient real-time tracking while managing system complexity through efficient use of existing mobile terminal capabilities.
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AI summary
A mobile terminal includes an input unit that is capable of receiving input of a dispatch request and a destination and a position determiner that is capable of obtaining a terminal position which is its own current position. In accordance with the dispatch request, an autonomous vehicle is designated as a vehicle that is to be dispatched. The autonomous vehicle includes an autonomous driving controller that performs driving control so as to track the mobile terminal based on the terminal position while on its way to pick up the user.