Vehicle Server Group Driving Digital Asset Exchange

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current group autonomous driving technologies face challenges in efficiently managing and optimizing the coordination and compensation between leading and following vehicles during group driving, particularly in terms of fuel efficiency and route optimization, while also providing a secure and convenient payment system.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle system and server infrastructure that enables vehicles to communicate and exchange digital assets based on fuel efficiency, route information, and evaluation data, allowing for autonomous driving and secure digital transactions through a blockchain-based platform.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Use of energy by moving object

If group autonomous driving technology is implemented, then fuel efficiency and operational costs are improved, but system complexity and coordination management become more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefuel efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A server acts as an intermediary to manage group driving coordination, handling route optimization, fuel efficiency calculations, and digital asset transactions. This externalizes the complexity from individual vehicles to a centralized system, allowing vehicles to benefit from optimized group driving without bearing the full system complexity burden.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where vehicles transmit driving information and fuel consumption data to the server, which then optimizes group driving routes and provides real-time adjustments. This continuous feedback loop enables fuel efficiency improvements while the server manages the computational complexity of optimization algorithms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If digital asset exchange system is implemented for compensation, then payment convenience and transaction security are improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepayment convenienceVSAvoidimplementation difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-service for digital asset transactions. Vehicles automatically transmit driving information, the server calculates compensation based on pre-defined criteria, and digital assets are exchanged without manual intervention. This automation provides payment convenience while the server handles the implementation complexity of blockchain transactions and smart contracts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Traditional manual payment systems are replaced with automated digital asset exchange based on blockchain technology. This substitution eliminates the need for complex manual negotiation and payment processing, providing convenience through automation while the server manages the underlying cryptographic and transactional complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If real-time data exchange between vehicles and server is implemented, then route optimization and fuel efficiency are improved, but communication requirements and system reliability challenges increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroute optimization efficiencyVSAvoidcommunication reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The server performs preliminary route optimization calculations based on aggregated data from multiple vehicles before group driving begins. This advance preparation reduces the need for constant real-time communication during driving, as vehicles can follow pre-optimized routes. The server only requires periodic data updates rather than continuous communication, improving reliability while maintaining optimization benefits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11472407B2Vehicle, server communicating with the same, and method of controlling the same
Publication Date: 2022.10.18 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a vehicle, a server communicating with the vehicle, and a method for controlling the vehicle to communicate with the server and a second vehicle. The vehicle may include a communicator configured to communicate with the server and the second vehicle; a storage configured to store an application for a group driving mode with the second vehicle; and a controller configured to control the application when the group driving mode is selected and to exchange compensation for a service corresponding to the group driving mode with digital assets through the server.