Smart Building Mobility Routing for Vertiport Charging Handoffs
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration and management of heterogeneous mobility devices, including aerial and ground mobility devices, within a smart building environment is lacking, particularly in facilitating seamless transitions and efficient operations such as charging, passenger transfer, and maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A smart building system and method that includes a vertiport zone for aerial mobility devices and a complex zone for ground mobility devices, managed by a controlling device that generates movement route information, coordinates charging, and facilitates transitions between zones to optimize operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a smart building system integrates management of heterogeneous mobility devices (aerial and ground), then operational efficiency and service integration are improved, but system complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The smart building is divided into distinct functional zones (vertiport zone for aerial mobility devices and complex zone for ground mobility devices), each with dedicated management protocols. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each zone while maintaining overall system integration through the managing device.
Solution Approach 2:
A managing device acts as an intermediary between heterogeneous mobility devices, coordinating their operations, routing, and resource allocation. This central mediator simplifies the complexity by providing a unified control interface that translates diverse device requirements into standardized management actions.
2Ease of operation
If the system provides seamless transitions and integrated operations between aerial and ground mobility devices, then service quality and user experience are improved, but coordination complexity and control difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The managing device provides universal control capabilities that handle multiple types of mobility devices (aerial and ground) through standardized interfaces. This multi-functionality enables seamless transitions between device types without requiring device-specific coordination protocols, thereby reducing overall coordination complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the managing device continuously monitors the status, location, and operational state of mobility devices, dynamically adjusting routes and coordination protocols to ensure seamless transitions. This real-time feedback enables adaptive coordination that maintains ease of operation despite system complexity.
3Productivity
If the system implements automated route generation and charging coordination, then operational processing efficiency is improved, but computational requirements and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The managing device generates movement routes and identifies charging requirements in advance before mobility devices begin their operations. By performing route planning and charging coordination preliminarily, the system avoids computationally intensive real-time calculations during device operation, thereby reducing energy consumption while maintaining high operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables mobility devices to autonomously follow generated routes and return to charging sites based on pre-determined conditions, reducing the need for continuous active control and computational processing. This self-service approach allows devices to operate independently along predetermined paths, minimizing the energy required for ongoing system computation and control.
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AI summary
A system comprises a smart building with a vertiport zone and a complex zone; and a managing device. The managing device is configured to: establish movement route information, of the aerial mobility device in the vertiport zone, based on management information associated with a transport object or flight of the aerial mobility device. If the movement route information indicates to move to at least one designated area of the vertiport zone and a charging permission condition is satisfied, the movement route information is set to add a charging site as a layover point. The aerial mobility device is controlled to move to the charging site according to the set movement route information and to be charged. If the movement route information indicates to move to the complex zone, the aerial mobility device is controlled to move to an exit area of the vertiport zone approaching the complex zone.