Management device, vehicle management method, program, and vehicle management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11091151-B2
Application number	US-202016886847-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2020
Priority date	Jun 10, 2019
Publication date	Aug 17, 2021
Grant date	Aug 17, 2021

Abstract

A management device guides a vehicle capable of performing automated traveling to a target parking space with reference to management information indicating parking situations of a plurality of parking spaces. The management device includes: a communicator configured to receive parking situation information which is information generated based on a recognition result by a recognizer recognizing a surrounding situation of the vehicle, the parking situation information indicating whether another vehicle is parked in a parking space adjacent to a route along which the vehicle is traveling; and an extractor configured to extract a parking space in which a parking situation managed with the management information is different from an actual parking situation based on the received parking situation information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A management device that guides a vehicle capable of performing automated traveling to a target parking space with reference to management information indicating parking situations of a plurality of parking spaces, the management device comprising:
a communicator configured to receive parking situation information which is information generated based on a recognition result by a recognizer recognizing a surrounding situation of the vehicle, the parking situation information indicating whether another vehicle is parked in a parking space adjacent to a route along which the vehicle is traveling; and
an extractor configured to extract a parking space in which a parking situation managed with the management information is different from an actual parking situation based on the received parking situation information,
wherein a vehicle with higher externality detection performance generates a guide route so that a distance to the target parking space becomes longer than that of a vehicle with lower externality detection performance.

2. The management device according to claim 1 , wherein the parking situation information received by the management device is information indicating a parking situation of a parking space adjacent to the route along which the vehicle is traveling while the vehicle is traveling to the target parking space.

3. The management device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a changer configured to change the management information regarding a parking situation of the parking space extracted by the extractor based on information received from the vehicle.

4. The management device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an abnormality determiner configured to determine an abnormality based on an extraction result by the extractor.

5. A vehicle management method, by way of a computer, including:
guiding a vehicle capable of performing automated traveling to a target parking space with reference to management information indicating parking situations of a plurality of parking spaces;
receiving parking situation information which is information generated based on a recognition result by a recognizer recognizing a surrounding situation of the vehicle, the parking situation information indicating whether another vehicle is parked in a parking space adjacent to a route along which the vehicle is traveling; and
extracting a parking space in which a parking situation managed with the management information is different from an actual parking situation based on the received parking situation information,
wherein a vehicle with higher externality detection performance generates a guide route so that a distance to the target parking space becomes longer than that of a vehicle with lower externality detection performance.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that includes a program causing a computer to:
guide a vehicle capable of performing automated traveling to a target parking space with reference to management information indicating parking situations of a plurality of parking spaces;
receive parking situation information which is information generated based on a recognition result by a recognizer recognizing a surrounding situation of the vehicle, the parking situation information indicating whether another vehicle is parked in a parking space adjacent to a route along which the vehicle is traveling; and
extract a parking space in which a parking situation managed with the management information is different from an actual parking situation based on the received parking situation information,
wherein a vehicle with higher externality detection performance generates a guide route so that a distance to the target parking space becomes longer than that of a vehicle with lower externality detection performance.

7. A vehicle management system comprising:
a management device configured to guide a vehicle capable of performing automated traveling to a target parking space with reference to management information indicating parking situations of a plurality of parking spaces; and
a vehicle control device mounted in the vehicle and including a communicator that communicates with the management device and a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation of the vehicle,
wherein the vehicle control device further includes a generator that generates parking situation information including information indicating whether another vehicle is parked in a parking space that the vehicle passes based on a result recognized by the recognizer and causes the communicator to transmit the parking situation information to the management device,
wherein the management device further includes an extractor that extracts a parking space in which a parking situation managed with the management information is different from an actual parking situation based on the parking situation information received from the vehicle control device, and
wherein a vehicle with higher externality detection performance generates a guide route so that a distance to the target parking space becomes longer than that of a vehicle with lower externality detection performance.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Noguchi Junpei
• Sugihara Chie
• Takada Yuta
• Taguchi Ryoma

Classifications

• G06V10/82

  using neural networks · CPC title

• G06V10/764

  using classification, e.g. of video objects · CPC title

• B60W30/06 Primary

  Automatic manoeuvring for parking · CPC title

• G06V20/586

  of parking space · CPC title

• G08G1/146

  where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space · CPC title