WO2012126541A1 - Device and method for determining map routes - Google Patents
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01C—MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
- G01C21/00—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00
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- G01C21/34—Route searching; Route guidance
- G01C21/3407—Route searching; Route guidance specially adapted for specific applications
- G01C21/343—Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01C—MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
- G01C21/00—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00
- G01C21/26—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
- G01C21/34—Route searching; Route guidance
- G01C21/3407—Route searching; Route guidance specially adapted for specific applications
- G01C21/3415—Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
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- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06Q10/00—Administration; Management
- G06Q10/04—Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem"
- G06Q10/047—Optimisation of routes or paths, e.g. travelling salesman problem
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- the invention relates to a device and a method for determining plan routes for the sequential delivery of a plurality of objects to spatially distributed destinations.
- the present invention has for its object to provide a method and a device for determining plan routes, which help further improve the efficiency of a delivery system using a vehicle. Solutions according to the invention are described in the independent claims. The dependent claims contain advantageous refinements and developments of the invention.
- An essential aspect of the invention is to detect unsuccessful delivery attempts in the case of a device or a method for determining planned routes in a delivery system and to provide for the affected objects the possibility of a new delivery attempt during the same tour and for this the affected objects with their destinations in a new determination a planned route.
- repeat objects The objects affected by an unsuccessful delivery attempt and intended for a new delivery attempt are here and hereinafter referred to as repeat objects.
- the repeat objects are stored in an object memory, in which at least initially all objects which are provided for delivery during a tour, are stored as repeat objects.
- the storage as a repeat object can be done for example by assigning a special identifier in the object memory.
- successfully delivered objects are provided in the object memory with a delivery note or deleted and fails in a repeat object after an unsuccessful delivery attempt, a delivery note or the repeat object remains together with the remaining still to be delivered objects in the object memory.
- the input of an additional marking of the objects in the object memory takes place both after successful and after unsuccessful delivery attempts.
- the storage of an object in the object memory is understood to be the storage of a piece of information which identifies the object in the object memory.
- identifying information is advantageously connected in readable form by a reader, for example alphanumerically, as a barcode or pixel code or as an electromagnetically interrogatable transponder and is advantageously at least on successful delivery by a vehicle entrained and separable, at least portable reader detected.
- a reader for example alphanumerically, as a barcode or pixel code or as an electromagnetically interrogatable transponder
- such reading systems are designed as optical scanners for delivery services, and object-identifying information forms a planar coded pattern on a surface portion of the object.
- the entirety of all objects to be delivered in the course of a tour of the vehicle from a starting point to an end point, which constitute the initial set of objects at the starting point, should be considered.
- the starting point and end point of a tour can be identical and can be formed, for example, by an object depot at which, for example, the vehicle starts with the objects to be delivered in the morning and if necessary returns to the undelivered objects after completing the tour.
- Starting point and end point of the tour can also be different if z. For example, a driver starts from a depot in the morning and drives in the evening. stop at his place of residence and drive again to the depot the next morning.
- the storage of the objects can be done, for example, when loading a vehicle at the starting point, in particular by individual detection of all objects by means of a reader and transmission and storage of the read object identifying information, destination information and other possibly essential information in the object memory.
- a record of all such information can also be prepared in another embodiment already in the compilation of objects to be delivered and transferred to the object store.
- the invention is based on the presence of all essential information of the first set of objects in the object memory, regardless of its origin.
- a renewed determination of a plan route which may then deviate from the first plan route determined on the basis of the first object set for the rest of the tour, can be triggered on different occasions.
- a new determination of a possibly modified plan route can be carried out after each successful or unsuccessful delivery attempt.
- a new determination of a plan route is performed only after an unsuccessful delivery attempt, which may be provided for the redetermination of a plan route after an unsuccessful delivery attempt also a delay in the form of a minimum period compared to the time of unsuccessful delivery attempt.
- the re-determination of a planned route can also be triggered by the user at any time.
- an object stored as a repetition object can be allocated a time information in the object memory.
- be bar which is specifiable as a minimum period of time for a new delivery attempt against the unsuccessful delivery attempt and / or as an earliest time for a new delivery attempt.
- the time information can be generated automatically by a data processing device that contains the object memory and that is set up to execute or initiate the determination of a planned route, with additional information stored about specific destinations or addressees, eg, the destination address. B often frequented destinations can be stored and taken into account.
- time information can also be entered and / or changed by a user, typically the driver, via input devices. Input devices may be provided in an advantageous development for the input of additional information or comments on individual objects by the user.
- the data processing device additionally determines a further plan route excluding the at least one repetitive object when a new plan route is recalculated, including at least one repetitive object.
- the determination of the new or further plan route is based on the reduced compared to the first set of objects by the already successfully delivered objects set of objects.
- the remaining course of the first plan route can also be used if there are no further changes.
- the new plan route, including the at least one repeat object and the further plan route or the remainder of the first plan route can be offered to the user for selection decision when displaying the two plan routes in map display and / or relevant characteristics of both plan routes or differences of such characteristics.
- a decision between alternative plan routes involving or excluding a repeat object can also be made automatically by the data processing device, according to specifiable criteria additional costs of a renewed delivery attempt, possibly weighted with an estimated probability of success of a new delivery attempt, other estimated according to predetermined storage information additional costs be compared to the current tour not occurring delivery and it is derived automatically a decision between alternative plan routes.
- a time limit can also be predeterminable, according to which the tour must be completed by a certain point in time, for example to return there before closing an object depot. A new plan route, over which such a time limit is not sustainable, is then rejected.
- the initially determined first plan route can be traveled without any consideration of any repeat objects without deviation, and possibly present repeat objects can be taken into account after the last destination with a possible subsequent additional route. Even then, by determining several alternative routes, individual repeat objects can be excluded from a new delivery attempt.
- the storage of an object as a repeat object after a successful delivery attempt can be deliberately initiated by the user by z.
- an input device in particular on an entrained in the vehicle, but this separately manageable portable handset has a storage as a repeat object associated input element.
- a lack of input about the successful che delivery to the destination automatically effect a storage of the object as a repeat object.
- an acknowledgment input for example on an electronic signature field of a mobile part, can also be interpretable as an input for a successful delivery.
- An object stored as a repetition object can advantageously be temporarily or permanently excluded by a user via corresponding input options for the rest of the tour from being included in a new determination of a planned route.
- a corresponding identifier is entered as "delivered" or "not delivered" in the object memory.
- a data processing device is generally understood to mean a device which comprises the object memory and optionally further memory devices as well as a route planning device, a navigation device, input and output devices including the named mobile part.
- the data processing device may include a plurality of separate device units, which are set up for data communication via wired and / or wireless connections with each other. Parts of the data processing device can also be permanently separated from the vehicle and connected to a device unit in the vehicle during the tour via a radio link for data communication.
- the invention is particularly advantageous for parcel delivery systems.
- the picking up of objects at destination locations and the delivery of such retrieved objects to the end point of the tour can also be provided.
- the invention is applicable to such consignments to be delivered in an analogous manner.
- the collection of objects is therefore for the present Invention understood as a special form of delivery of objects.
- the objects can be assigned as additional information also a time information as the earliest or latest delivery time or as a time window, which is taken into account in the route planning.
- a recalculation of the route may take place taking into account the time information assigned to an object, if the actual time course of the departure of a first planned route would result in a violation of the time allocation in the further course or a too high additional expenditure according to specifiable user criteria.
- time information restricting the delivery time can be given, for example, in the form that it is not possible for a company to serve as a delivery address during a lunch break or after an office closing. Such time information can also be in one
- Address memory for delivery addresses to which frequent deliveries are made be stored and assigned to an object with such a delivery address automatically from the address memory.
- the assignment of a time information which limits the permissible delivery time to an object to be delivered and their consideration of such assigned time information when creating an initial planned route or during the tour of a new planned route can also be repeated as a repeat object, irrespective of the marking of an object after an unsuccessful delivery attempt form an independent general idea of the invention, within which the identification of an object as a repeat object with assignment of an earliest time for a new delivery attempt is to be regarded as an advantageous development. From the prior art known further features of facilities or methods for determining plan routes such. As the subsequent addition of destinations, in particular for the collection of objects, or the consideration of current traffic situations in the determination of plan routes are in a corresponding manner also in the present invention feasible.
- Fig. 3 is a handset in mobile use, the handset in the vehicle.
- 1 schematically shows a route for a tour to be completed by a vehicle, within which objects, for example packages, are to be delivered to delivery locations Z01 to Z15.
- a depot SE forms the starting point and the end point of the tour.
- the vehicle is loaded at the depot SE with all objects to be delivered within the tour and, in addition, an all object destination Z01 to Z15 and the associated objects to be delivered there containing first object set is stored in an object memory preferably carried in the vehicle data processing device.
- a first plan route PL1 is determined by means of a route planning device, which determines an optimized according to specifiable criteria plan route, which detects all destinations Z01 to Z15.
- the destinations Z01 to Z15 are shown in FIG. 1 along the first plan route PL1 represented by solid straight lines in the order determined according to the first determined route.
- the driver drives the vehicle, advantageously as instructed by a display of a navigation device, from the depot SE to the first destination Z01, places the object destined for this destination there to the receiver and continues driving in the direction of the next destination Z02.
- After delivery of the object at the destination Z01 it is advantageously marked as delivered in the object store, which can be done, for example, by an additional delivery note to be stored or by deleting the object from the object store. Destinations at which a first delivery attempt, the delivery is successful, are shown in Fig. 1 by empty circles.
- the driver at the destination Z02 and at the destination Z03 the respective objects to the receiver.
- a first delivery attempt when approaching the destination Z04 from the destination Z03 remains unsuccessful, which is represented in FIG. 1 by a circle with a cross in the circle for the destination Z04.
- the object intended for the destination Z04 is again in the vehicle, an acknowledgment entry for a successful delivery is not available.
- the object intended for the destination Z04 is stored as a repeat object in the object memory after the unsuccessful first delivery attempt, which is achieved, for example, by an additional weighing process. Return mark for this object or this delivery location in the object memory or, if objects are deleted from the object memory can be done simply by leaving the object in the object memory.
- time object information is assigned to the object not delivered at the destination Z04 and stored in the object memory, which can in particular represent a minimum time span until a new delivery attempt or an earliest time for a new delivery attempt and either generated automatically by a data processing device or by a user. is given in particular to the driver. For example only, it is assumed that a predeterminable or predefined minimum time period of, for example, one hour is specified for a new delivery attempt.
- a first object set OS1 is present in an object memory SO and that a first plan route PL1 is determined therefrom as the optimized plan route PL and the driver starts the tour initially and in the example sketched in FIG Destination Z04 departs after this first planned route.
- the object to be delivered at the destination Z04 is stored with a delivery delay TZ of, for example, one hour compared with the first delivery attempt as a repeat object.
- the plan route does not change for the time being and the driver continues to drive along the planned route to destinations Z05, Z06, Z07 and successfully delivers the respective objects to the receiver there.
- the driver drives on the original planned route PL1 afterwards. ter from the destination Z08 to the destination Z09, for which in turn a successful delivery is assumed.
- For the destination Z08 is therefore discarded in this case, either by decision of a user to which an alternative route again over Z08 compared to the last specific plan route for selection, or automatically rejected by the data processing and the tour is on a plan route, in the example the course the plan route PL2 continued without consideration of the destination Z08 for a new delivery attempt.
- the driving scheme of FIG. 1 merely represents a greatly simplified situation for illustrating various aspects of the present invention.
- the number of objects and destinations is typically many times greater than assumed in FIG.
- Fig. 3 shows a handset HG as during the shutdown of a tour in the vehicle with a guided, but separately handled by the vehicle, portable handset.
- the hand-held device HG has, for example, an optical scanner whose scan range is indicated by SC in FIG. 3 and which during handling is used to read a code, for example a barcode BC on the surface, for example a label field AF of an object PA.
- the handset HG can in a conventional manner an electronic signature field UF for receiving a signature of the recipient as a receipt input and controls in the form of a keyboard TA or the like included.
- An acknowledgment signature made upon the delivery of an object PA on the signature field UF can be automatically evaluated as a note for a successful delivery.
- the input elements PA can also be used to enter an acknowledgment note and / or to enter an acknowledgment for an unsuccessful delivery.
- a display area HA of the handset HG can be provided and advantageous for the interactive handling of the mobile part.
- the successful delivery can also be stored in the object memory in other ways that are equivalent to the invention.
- a delivery agent authorized to store an object to be delivered can also perform a successful delivery by filing and save this as a successful delivery.
- 4 schematically shows the arrangement of the handset HG shown in FIG. 3 in a device receptacle GA of a vehicle FZ, which may be designed in particular in the manner of a docking station.
- the device holder GA In addition to the mechanical fixation of the handset HG in the vehicle FZ the device holder GA also via contacts EK for making a wired electrical see or wireless connection between the handset HG and a control device ST, which is also part of the general data processing device of the delivery system.
- the control device ST is further connected to a navigation device NE, which may in particular contain a display field ND for the navigation guidance on the planned route which can be viewed by the user while driving.
- a determination of a planned route can be carried out in the handset HG, in the control device ST or in the navigation device NE or else in an external subunit of the general data processing device, which can communicate with the control device ST via a radio link FV, preferably in data communication.
- the radio link FV which can be done on the vehicle side, for example via an antenna AN in the windshield WS of the vehicle, other data can be exchanged, for example, with a central or external information on current traffic situations.
- the radio link FV may also be partially or completely provided by a mobile telephone connection, by cloud computing, etc.
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