Method, control device, and system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
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Abstract
A method executed by a control device includes: acquiring odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor; determining an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor information; and causing a garbage collection device to sequentially collect the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.
Claims14
A method executed by a control device, the method comprising:
- acquiring odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor;
- estimating a chronological change of the odor intensity of each of the garbage collection sites;
- determining an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor intensity in the future of each of the garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being estimated based on the odor information, and the order being determined such that a sum of values obtained by integrating the odor intensity from a current time to a time at which a garbage collection device collects the garbage in each of the garbage collection sites is minimized;
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- causing the garbage collection device to sequentially collect the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.
A control device comprising a control unit, wherein:
- the control unit acquires odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor;
- the control unit estimates a chronological change of the odor intensity of each of the garbage collection sites;
- the control unit determines an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor intensity in the future of each of the garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being estimated based on the odor information, and the order being determined such that a sum of values obtained by integrating the odor intensity from a current time to a time at which a garbage collection device collects the garbage in each of the garbage collection sites is minimized;
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- the control unit causes the garbage collection device to sequentially collect the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.
A system comprising a control device and a garbage collection device that communicates with the control device, wherein:
- the control device acquires odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor;
- the control device estimates a chronological change of the odor intensity of each of the garbage collection sites;
- the control device determines an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor intensity in the future of each of the garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being estimated based on the odor information, and the order being determined such that a sum of values obtained by integrating the odor intensity from a current time to a time at which the garbage collection device collects the garbage in each of the garbage collection sites is minimized;
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- the garbage collection device sequentially collects the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.