Server device, system, control device, moving device, and operation method for system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022113741-A1
Application number	US-202117491693-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 1, 2021
Priority date	Oct 8, 2020
Publication date	Apr 14, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

The server device includes a communication unit and a control unit that sends and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit generates, based on information on a route along which a moving device is to move in a collective facility and information indicating movement of a person in the collective facility, a waiting instruction for causing the moving device to wait at a waiting place near an encounter position where the moving device encounters the person on the route until the person passes the waiting place, and sends the waiting instruction to the moving device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A server device comprising:
a communication unit; and a control unit that sends and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit, wherein the control unit generates, based on information on a route along which a moving device is to move in a collective facility and information indicating movement of a person in the collective facility, a waiting instruction for causing the moving device to wait at a waiting place near an encounter position where the moving device encounters the person on the route until the person passes the waiting place, and sends the waiting instruction to the moving device.

2 . The server device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit selects the waiting place closest to a destination on the route and generates the waiting instruction.

3 . The server device according to claim 2 , wherein when the control unit selects the waiting place located closer to the destination than the encounter position is, the control unit sends, to the moving device, a first instruction for changing a movement speed of the moving device.

4 . The server device according to claim 1 , wherein the information indicating the movement of the person is acquired from a sensor provided in the collective facility and includes information indicating a sign of the movement of the person.

5 . The server device according to claim 4 , wherein the control unit sends the waiting instruction to the moving device before the person starts to move, based on the information indicating the sign of the movement of the person.

6 . The server device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit has information indicating a shape, a dimension, or an arrangement of a passage in the collective facility, and generates the waiting instruction based on the information indicating the shape, the dimension, or the arrangement of the passage.

7 . The server device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit sends, to the moving device, a second instruction for causing the moving device to move along another route on which the moving device does not encounter the person.

8 . A system having the server device and the moving device according to claim 1 .

9 . A control device mounted on a moving device and having a communication unit and a control unit for sending and receiving information to and from another device via the communication unit, wherein:
a server device generates, based on information on a route along which the moving device is to move in a collective facility and information indicating movement of a person in the collective facility, a waiting instruction for causing the moving device to wait at a waiting place near an encounter position where the moving device encounters the person on the route until the person passes the waiting place; and when the control unit receives the waiting instruction from the server device, the control unit controls the moving device according to the waiting instruction.

10 . The control device according to claim 9 , wherein the control unit controls the moving device based on the waiting instruction generated by selecting the waiting place closest to a destination on the route.

11 . The control device according to claim 10 , wherein in a case where the server device sends a first instruction for changing a movement speed of the moving device when the waiting place located closer to the destination than the encounter position is, is selected, the control unit controls the moving device according to the first instruction.

12 . The control device according to claim 9 , wherein when the server device acquires the information indicating the movement of the person from a sensor provided in the collective facility and the information includes information indicating a sign of the movement of the person, the control unit causes the moving device to start to move according to the waiting instruction before the person starts to move.

13 . The control device according to claim 9 , wherein when the control unit receives a second instruction, from the server device, for causing the moving device to move along another route on which the moving device does not encounter the person, the control unit controls the moving device according to the second instruction.

14 . The moving device equipped with the control device according to claim 9 .

15 . An operation method of a system having a server device and a moving device that perform information communication with each other, wherein:
the server device generates, based on information on a route along which the moving device is to move in a collective facility and information indicating movement of a person in the collective facility, a waiting instruction for causing the moving device to wait at a waiting place near an encounter position where the moving device encounters the person on the route until the person passes the waiting place, and sends the waiting instruction to the moving device; and the moving device operates according to the waiting instruction.

16 . The operation method according to claim 15 , wherein the server device selects the waiting place closest to a destination on the route and generates the waiting instruction.

17 . The operation method according to claim 16 , wherein when the server device selects the waiting place located closer to the destination than the encounter position is, the server device sends, to the moving device, a first instruction for changing a movement speed of the moving device.

18 . The operation method according to claim 15 , wherein the server device has information indicating a shape, a dimension, or an arrangement of a passage in the collective facility, and generates the waiting instruction based on the information indicating the shape, the dimension, or the arrangement of the passage.

19 . The operation method according to claim 15 , wherein:
the information indicating the movement of the person is acquired from a sensor provided in the collective facility and includes information indicating a sign of the movement of the person; and the server device sends the waiting instruction to the moving device before the person starts to move, based on the information indicating the sign of the movement of the person.

20 . The operation method according to claim 15 , wherein the server device sends, to the moving device, a second instruction for causing the moving device to move along another route on which the moving device does not encounter the person.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Matsushita Makoto
• Sasaki Tomo
• Nakamura Yui
• Komamine Satoshi
• Sawada Shuichi
• Suzuki Tatsuya

Classifications

• H04W4/40

  for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] · CPC title

• H04W4/025

  using location based information parameters · CPC title

• H04W4/024

  Guidance services · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04W84/18

  Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks · CPC title