Automated travel vehicle assistance system and server
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShin Sakurada
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Abstract
An automated travel vehicle assistance system includes: plural first vehicles, each of which is used for movement of a user; one or more types of second vehicles, each of which has a different function from the first vehicle; and a server that manages operation of the first vehicles and the second vehicles. A first information processing section of the first vehicle generates a service request on the basis of a specified condition, and, when receiving the service request from the first vehicle, the server determines at least one of the first vehicle, which differs from the above first vehicle, and the second vehicle as a service-providing vehicle and generates a service provision instruction to dispatch the determined service-providing vehicle to the first vehicle transmitting the service request.
Claims11
An automated travel vehicle assistance system, comprising:
- plural first vehicles, each of which used for movement of a user;
- one or more types of plural second vehicles, each of which has a different function from the first vehicles;
- and
- a server configured to manage operation of the first vehicles and the second vehicles, wherein
- each of the first vehicles includes:
- a first travel control section configured to control the respective first vehicle, on which the first travel control section is mounted, to travel with at least one of (i) another of the first vehicles and (ii) at least one of the second vehicles in alignment on the basis of an instruction from the server,
- a first information processing section configured to generate a service request on the basis of a specified condition, and
- a first communication section configured to transmit the service request, which is generated by the first information processing section, to the server, and
- when receiving the service request from a service requesting first vehicle of the first vehicles, the server is configured to:
- determine at least one of (i) one of the first vehicles, which differs from the service requesting first vehicle, and (ii) one of the second vehicles as a service-providing vehicle corresponding to the service request including:
- setting the one of the first vehicles as the service-providing vehicle in a case where the service request from the service requesting first vehicle includes a request for a replacement vehicle, and
- setting the one of the second vehicles as the service providing vehicle in a case where the service request from the service requesting first vehicle includes a request other than the request for the replacement vehicle,
- generate a service provision instruction to dispatch the determined service-providing vehicle to the service requesting first vehicle, and
- transmitting the service provision instruction to the determined service-providing vehicle.
A server that manages operation of plural first vehicles, each of which is used for movement of a user, and one or more types of plural second vehicles, each of which has a different function from the first vehicles, the server comprising:
- a server communication section;
- and
- a server information processing section, wherein
- the server communication section is configured to receive a service request from a service requesting first vehicle of the first vehicles,
- the service request is generated by the service requesting first vehicle on the basis of a specified condition,
- the server information processing section is configured to, when receiving the service request from the service requesting first vehicle:
- determine at least one of (i) one of the first vehicles, which differs from the service requesting first vehicle, and (ii) one of the second vehicles as a service-providing vehicle including:
- setting the one of the first vehicles as the service-providing vehicle in a case where the service request from the service requesting first vehicle includes a request for a replacement vehicle, and
- setting the one of the second vehicles as the service providing vehicle in a case where the service request from the service requesting first vehicle includes a request other than the request for the replacement vehicle, and
- generate a service provision instruction to dispatch the determined service-providing vehicle to the service requesting first vehicle, and
- the server communication section is configured to transmit the service provision instruction to the determined service-providing vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.