Vehicle Route Optimization for Component Operating Conditions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle navigation systems do not consider specific vehicle components and fail to adjust operating conditions based on detected road conditions, leading to a need for improved systems that determine routes and adjust vehicle settings accordingly.
Innovation Solution
A driving settings control system that includes a server with a map database and a controller, which determines routes, identifies triggers along the route, and transmits control instructions to adjust vehicle components' operating conditions as the vehicle approaches these triggers, minimizing changes to the vehicle's settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional vehicle navigation systems provide routes based on traffic conditions, then routing functionality is improved, but vehicle component operating conditions are not optimized
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-identifies triggers along the route and determines the operating conditions that will be required at these locations before the vehicle reaches them. This allows the navigation system to prepare and communicate upcoming vehicle setting changes in advance, enabling the vehicle to optimize its component operating conditions proactively rather than reactively.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transmits control instructions from the server to the vehicle that include information about upcoming triggers and required operating conditions. This feedback loop enables the vehicle's navigation system to adjust routes and the vehicle's component systems to adjust their operating conditions based on predicted road conditions, creating a closed-loop adaptive system.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system adjusts vehicle component settings frequently to adapt to road conditions, then vehicle performance is optimized, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary between the navigation system and the vehicle's component control systems. The server pre-determines routes, identifies triggers, calculates required operating conditions, and transmits control instructions to the vehicle. This intermediary approach centralizes the complex calculations and decision-making, simplifying the onboard vehicle systems while maintaining high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
By pre-determining routes and identifying triggers before the vehicle reaches them, the system avoids the need for complex real-time decision-making and frequent adjustments during vehicle operation. The preliminary identification of required operating conditions reduces the computational burden and control complexity during actual vehicle operation.
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AI summary
A driving settings control system and method for controlling operating conditions of a vehicle component. The method includes determining a route to a destination in response to receiving the destination from the vehicle, identifying triggers along the route, determining operating conditions of one or more vehicle components of the vehicle corresponding to the triggers, and transmitting control instructions to the vehicle including the route, the operating conditions of the one or more vehicle components, and executing commands instructing the vehicle to accept the operating conditions of the one or more vehicle components as the vehicle approaches locations of the triggers.