Worksite Validation Using Sensor-Guided Location and Condition Checks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to adequately validate worksites for autonomous, semi-autonomous, or remote-controlled machine operations, leading to potential equipment damage, inefficiencies, and safety risks due to unsuitable conditions.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing sensors and data processing techniques to receive worksite plans, sensor data, and generate graphical user interfaces for visual inspection and validation, ensuring that worksites meet predefined conditions before allowing machine operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If worksite validation system is implemented, then equipment damage and operational failures are reduced, but system complexity increases due to multiple sensors and data processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The computing device performs multiple functions within a single integrated system: receiving worksite plan data, collecting sensor data from multiple sources, evaluating condition parameters, generating visual inspections, and determining worksite suitability. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be separate complex systems into one unified validation platform, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive equipment protection capabilities.
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AI summary
A system for validating a worksite (214) includes determining extents of a worksite at which a job is to be performed. A graphical representation of the worksite (214) may be presented to a user via a graphical user interface (200) on a user device (202). The graphical user interface (200) may also include an indication of a current location (216) of the user or the user device (202). Sensor data, including data indicating a position of the user or the user device (202), can be used to determine whether the worksite (214) is valid. The worksite plan (122) may include information about additional conditions for validating the worksite (214) and additional sensor data can be used to further validate the worksite (214). Further aspects may include controlling machines (104) at the worksite (214) when the worksite (214) is validated.