Management device of autonomous driving vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11941549-B2
Application number	US-202217673788-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2022
Priority date	Feb 18, 2021
Publication date	Mar 26, 2024
Grant date	Mar 26, 2024

Abstract

The management device of an autonomous driving vehicle includes a congestion rate calculation unit and a waiting place setting unit. The congestion rate calculation unit is able to calculate the congestion rate of a parking lot adjoining each of a plurality of commercial facilities. In a case where the congestion rate of a neighbor parking lot, or a parking lot in the neighborhood of a boarding place contained in reservation information for an autonomous driving vehicle reserved for dispatch, during a waiting time period before the scheduled boarding time, is less than a congestion threshold, the waiting place setting unit sets the neighbor parking lot as a waiting place for the autonomous driving vehicle to wait during the waiting time period.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A management device of an autonomous driving vehicle, comprising:
a processor configured to
calculate a congestion rate of each of parking lots adjoining a plurality of respective commercial facilities; and
in response to the congestion rate of a neighbor parking lot during a waiting time period before a scheduled boarding time being less than a congestion threshold,
set the neighbor parking lot as a waiting place where an autonomous driving vehicle reserved for dispatch waits during the waiting time period, wherein the neighbor parking lot is in a neighborhood of a boarding place contained in reservation information for the autonomous driving vehicle reserved for dispatch, and
cause the autonomous driving vehicle reserved for dispatch to move to the waiting place, wherein

the autonomous driving vehicle is a vehicle with a capacity of one or two passengers, a minimum turning radius of the autonomous driving vehicle being less than that of an automobile with a capacity of five passengers, and enabling the autonomous driving vehicle to turn in a passage space of the neighbor parking lot without entering a parking space of the neighbor parking lot, and
the processor is further configured to, in response to the congestion rate being 100%,
set the passage space as the boarding place, and
cause the autonomous driving vehicle to leave the neighbor parking lot within a predetermined time period.

2. The management device according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is further configured to,
in response to the boarding place designated by a user when reserving vehicle dispatch being different from any of the parking lots adjoining the plurality of respective commercial facilities, send a suggestion message to the user to suggest change of the boarding place to a parking lot in the neighborhood of the boarding place designated; and
in response to the boarding place being changed to the parking lot suggested with the suggestion message, grant to the user a preferential service usable in a commercial facility adjoining the parking lot that has been suggested.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sakurada Shin
• Hoshi Katsuya
• Sugiyama Hiroaki
• Sawada Masahisa
• Ito Hiroyuki
• SEGI Makoto
• Hattori Hiroki

Classifications

• G06Q10/0283

  for travel seating · CPC title

• G06Q10/02 Primary

  Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events · CPC title

• G06Q30/0207 Primary

  Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates · CPC title

• G08G1/0133

  for classifying traffic situation · CPC title

• G08G1/202

  Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching · CPC title