System and method for defining a specification of a vehicle

A method of controlling manufacture of a mechanically and electrically compliant Vehicle-Corner-Module (VCM) based vehicle, the method comprising:

• a. providing to a display device, one or more user interface components for manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics of one or more VCMs for display thereon;
• b. receiving manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics of one or more VCMs, to define one or more selected VCMs;
• c. for the one or more selected VCMs, computing VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints on a plurality of vehicle characteristics of the vehicle, which VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints are required for the vehicle including the one or more selected VCMs to be compliant;
• d. computing a subset of the plurality of vehicle characteristics which are compatible with the VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints, the subset being a proper subset of the plurality of vehicle characteristics;
• e. for each vehicle characteristic in the subset, providing to the display device one or more respective user interface components for manual and explicit selection of the vehicle characteristic for display thereon, wherein, for each said vehicle characteristic, the one or more respective user interface components are provided for display in a specific order;
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• f. responsive to manual and explicit selection of one or more vehicle characteristics in the subset, generating a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicle including the one or more selected VCMs and the selected one or more vehicle characteristics.

A system for defining a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant Vehicle-Corner-Module (VCM)-based vehicle, the system comprising:

• a server network interface for connection to at least one network, said at least one network including at least one other, user-operated device or system having a user interface including at least one input interface and at least one display;
• at least one server processor;
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• at least one server storage medium for instructions execution by the at least one server processor, the server storage medium having stored:
• instructions forming a display-engine, including:
• instructions to provide to the at least one other device or system, for display on the at least one display, one or more user interface components for manual and explicit selection of one or more initial vehicle characteristics of the vehicle;
• instructions to receive the manual and explicit selection of the one or more initial vehicle characteristics;
• instructions to provide to the at least one other device or system, for display on the at least one display, one or more user interface components for manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics, which VCM characteristics are compatible with the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics;
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• instructions to receive the manual and explicit selection of the one or more VCM characteristics defining selected VCMs;
• instructions, forming a constraint-engine, to compute, for the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics, VCM-related mechanical and electrical constraints on a plurality of VCM characteristics, which VCM-related mechanical and electrical constraints are required for the vehicle including the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics to be compliant;
• instructions forming a compatibility-engine, comprising:
• instructions to compute a first subset of the plurality of VCM characteristics that are compatible with the VCM-related mechanical and electrical constraints, the first subset being a proper subset of the plurality of VCM characteristics;
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• instructions to provide the VCM characteristics in the first subset, to the display engine, in a specific order;
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• instructions forming an ordering-engine, comprising:
• instructions to receive from the display-engine manual and explicit selection of the one or more VCM characteristics compatible with the VCM-related mechanical and electrical constraints;
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• instructions to generate a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant CVM-based vehicle based on the one or more selected VCMs and the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics.

A system for defining a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant Vehicle-Corner-Module (VCM)-based vehicle, the system comprising:

• a server network interface for connection to at least one network, said at least one network including at least one other device or system having a user interface including at least one input interface and at least one display;
• at least one server processor;
• and
• at least one storage medium for instructions execution by the at least one server processor, the storage medium having stored:
• instructions forming a display-engine, including:
• instructions to provide to the at least one other device or system, for display on the at least one display, one or more user interface components for manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics;
• instructions to receive the manual and explicit selection of the one or more VCM characteristics, thereby to define one or more selected VCMs;
• instructions to provide to the at least one other device or system, for display on the at least one display, one or more user interface components for manual and explicit selection of one or more vehicle characteristics of the vehicle, which vehicle characteristics are compatible with the one or more selected VCMs;
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• instructions to receive the manual and explicit selection of the one or more vehicle characteristics;
• instructions, forming a constraint-engine, to compute, for the one or more selected VCMs, VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints on a plurality of vehicle characteristics of the vehicle, which VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints are required for the vehicle including the one or more selected VCMs to be compliant;
• instructions forming a compatibility-engine, comprising:
• instructions to compute a subset of the plurality of vehicle characteristics that are compatible with the VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints, the subset being a proper subset of the plurality of vehicle characteristics;
• and
• instructions to provide the vehicle characteristics in the subset, to the display engine, in a specific order;
• and
• instructions forming an ordering-engine, comprising:
• instructions to receive from the display-engine manual and explicit selection of the one or more vehicle characteristics compatible with the VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints;
• and
• instructions to generate a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant CVM-based vehicle based on the one or more selected VCMs and the selected one or more vehicle characteristics.

A network designed for defining a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant Vehicle-Corner-Module (VCM)-based vehicle by a user using a computing device at a first network node on said network, said computing device associated with at least one input interface and with at least one display, data sent via said network including, in order:

• a. one or more of one or more user interface components, rules, or datasets for manual and explicit selection of one or more initial vehicle characteristics for display on the at least one display;
• b. manual and explicit selection, by the user, of one or more initial vehicle characteristics;
• c. one or more of one or more user interface components, rules, or datasets for manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics which are compatible with mechanical and electrical constraints required for a vehicle including the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics to be compliant;
• d. manual and explicit selection of one or more said compatible VCM characteristics to define one or more selected VCMs;
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• e. a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicle including the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics and the selected one or more VCMs.

A network designed for defining a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant Vehicle-Corner-Module (VCM)-based vehicle by a user using a computing device at a first network node on said network, said computing device associated with at least one input interface and with at least one display, data sent via said network including, in order:

• one or more of one or more user interface components, rules, or datasets for manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics of one or more VCMs for display on the at least one display;
• manual and explicit selection, by the user, of one or more VCM characteristics of one or more VCMs, to define one or more selected VCMs;
• one or more of one or more user interface components, rules, or datasets for manual and explicit selection of one or more vehicle characteristics which are compatible with mechanical and electrical constraints required for a vehicle including the one or more selected VCMs to be compliant;
• manual and explicit selection of one or more vehicle characteristics;
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• a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicle including the one or more selected VCMs and the selected one or more vehicle characteristics.