Control apparatus, vehicle, and control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsChikage Kubo, Kenichi Yamada, Yuki Tatsumoto, Hiromitsu Fujii, Mitsuhiro Naito
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Abstract
A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, identify, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle, and perform control of operating the vehicle along a route including the identified facility.
Claims15
A control apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
- acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, wherein the destination includes a factory, and the plurality of facilities include a plurality of buildings;
- identify, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle;
- set a route including the identified facility;
- acquire line data indicating a user required to operate each line in the factory;
- determine, based on the profile data, whether the user indicated by the acquired line data is on board the vehicle;
- upon determining that time remaining until a scheduled operation starting time of a first line is below a threshold and that a first user required to operate the first line is on board the vehicle, adjust an order of traveling of the vehicle around facilities included in the route by putting off facilities other than a first facility with the first line;
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- control, by transmitting an operation command to the vehicle, the vehicle to autonomously travel along the route in the adjusted order.
A control method performed by a controller, comprising:
- acquiring, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, wherein the destination includes a factory, and the plurality of facilities include a plurality of buildings;
- identifying, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle;
- setting a route including the identified facility;
- acquiring line data indicating a user required to operate each line in the factory;
- determining, based on the profile data, whether the user indicated by the acquired line data is on board the vehicle;
- upon determining that time remaining until a scheduled operation starting time of a first line is below a threshold and that a first user required to operate the first line is on board the vehicle, adjusting an order of traveling of the vehicle around facilities included in the route by putting off facilities other than a first facility with the first line;
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- controlling, by transmitting an operation command to the vehicle, the vehicle to autonomously travel along the route in the adjusted order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.