Virtual Display for Synchronizing Remote-Controlled Vehicles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual reality systems fail to effectively align and synchronize the navigation of remote-controlled vehicles in different physical locations, leading to inconsistencies and challenges in shared virtual environments.
Innovation Solution
A virtual display arrangement comprising a display device, communication interface, and controller, which connects with remote-controlled vehicles and allows for the alignment of tracks by adapting navigation based on recorded real-world tracks, using alignment information to synchronize vehicle movements across different locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If remote-controlled vehicles are navigated in different physical locations independently, then each vehicle can be controlled freely in its local environment, but the vehicles cannot be synchronized or aligned in a shared virtual environment
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates virtual copies of the remote-controlled vehicles and their respective physical environments. Each vehicle's real-world track is recorded and replicated as a virtual track, allowing vehicles from different locations to be synchronized in a shared virtual space. The virtual representation preserves the physical characteristics while enabling precise alignment and synchronization.
Solution Approach 2:
A central server acts as an intermediary that receives track recording data from multiple vehicles, processes alignment information, and distributes synchronized virtual track data back to each vehicle. This mediator coordinates the navigation commands and ensures that vehicles at different physical locations can be aligned in the shared virtual environment.
2Device complexity
If virtual reality systems use standard coordinate systems for different locations, then system complexity is reduced, but alignment accuracy between different physical tracks deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows each physical location to maintain its own local coordinate system and track characteristics without forcing standardization. Each vehicle's environment is recorded with its unique geometric properties, and the virtual representation preserves these local qualities. Alignment is achieved by adapting the virtual tracks to match each other's local characteristics rather than imposing a universal coordinate system.
Solution Approach 2:
The coordinate transformation and alignment parameters are dynamically adjusted based on the recorded track geometries. The system continuously adapts the virtual track representations to achieve precise alignment, allowing the coordinate relationships to flex and adjust rather than being fixed by predetermined standards.
3Measurement precision
If track alignment is performed manually for each pair of locations, then alignment accuracy can be optimized, but the time and effort required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary automated alignment by recording the geometric characteristics of each track during the initial setup phase. Alignment information is pre-calculated and stored, allowing subsequent synchronization to occur rapidly without requiring manual intervention for each new vehicle or location. The heavy lifting of alignment computation is done in advance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors the actual navigation positions of vehicles and compares them against the aligned virtual track representations. Alignment accuracy is verified through feedback loops, and adjustments are made automatically to maintain precise synchronization. This continuous verification ensures high alignment accuracy without requiring repeated manual adjustments.
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AI summary
A virtual display arrangement comprising a display device, a communication interface and a controller, wherein the communication interface is configured to connect with a first remote-controlled vehicle, the controller is configured to receive user input and to control the first remote-controlled vehicle based on the user input along a first track, and the display device is configured to show the first remote-controlled vehicle being navigated based on the user input along the first track, wherein the communication interface is further configured to connect with a second virtual display arrangement controlling a second remote-controlled vehicle along the first track as a virtual vehicle along a virtual track corresponding to the first track, and wherein the controller is configured to receive information relating to navigation of the second remote-controlled vehicle along the first track, and display a graphical representation of the second remote-controlled vehicle in the display device at a position relative the first remote-controlled vehicle on the first track corresponding to a position of the second remote-controlled vehicle on the first track, and wherein the controller is configured to determine that a virtual gateway is reached and in response thereto cause the display device to display the first vehicle as a virtual representation in a virtual world and receive information relating to navigation of the first remote-controlled vehicle as a virtual vehicle along a virtual second track in the virtual world.