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US 12,608,021 B2Granted
Control device, production management device, and control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKento Iwahori, Daiki Yokoyama
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Abstract
A control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a traveling environment in which a movable body that can travel by unmanned driving travels, and a control unit that controls the movable body so as to lengthen or shorten a traveling time in the traveling environment in accordance with a degree of an influence of the traveling environment acquired by the acquisition unit on the quality of the movable body.
Claims3
A production management system comprising:
- a vehicle configured to travel by autonomous driving;
- a first processor configured to control the vehicle to travel from a first place to a second place, the first place and the second place being included in a factory that manufactures the vehicle;
- a sensor;
- and
- a production management device including a second processor configured to
- acquire a traveling environment for the vehicle from the sensor,
- determine the number of the vehicles to be produced based on a degree of influence of the traveling environment on quality of the vehicle,
- send information indicating the number of the vehicles to be produced to the first processor, wherein
- the first processor is configured to control a speed at which the vehicle travels from the first place to the second place based on the information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.