Control device, control method, and storage medium controlling a module to deliver a product to a user in a travelling moving body
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRina Mukai, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Richard Chung
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Abstract
A control device provided in a vehicle allows reception of a load carried by a drone, determines a position of a user who has ordered the load, and causes a ceiling module to move to the determined position while the vehicle is traveling toward a destination.
Claims8
A control device that controls a module which is provided to a vehicle and which is movable in an inside of the vehicle, the control device comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor that, in cooperation with the memory, performs operations including:
- determining, on a basis of given information, a position of a seat on which a user sits, the user relating to a product placed on the module,
- wherein the module is provided to a ceiling of the vehicle and is movable inside the vehicle along a rail provided to the ceiling of the vehicle,
- the module has a box-shaped configuration that enables the product to be placed thereon, and
- the processor, in cooperation with the memory, further performs operations including:
- causing, based on a signal transmitted from a drone that carries the product, an opening/closing device, which is provided to a roof of the vehicle and is capable of opening and closing an opening of the roof, to slide so as to open the opening of the roof,
- causing the module to move toward the opening of the roof so that the module reaches a position in which the drone carrying the product is capable of placing the product on the module, and
- causing the module to move along the rail to the determined position of the seat.
A control method used for a control device that controls a module which is provided to a vehicle and which is movable in an inside of the vehicle, the control method comprising:
- determining, on a basis of given information, a position of a seat on which a user sits, the user relating to a product placed on the module,
- wherein the module is provided to a ceiling of the vehicle and is movable inside the vehicle along a rail provided to the ceiling of the vehicle,
- the module has a box-shaped configuration that enables the product to be placed thereon, and
- the control method further comprises:
- causing, based on a signal transmitted from a drone that carries the product, an opening/closing device, which is provided to a roof of the vehicle and is capable of opening and closing an opening of the roof, to slide so as to open the opening of the roof;
- causing the module to move toward the opening of the roof so that the module reaches a position in which the drone carrying the product is capable of placing the product on the module;
- and
- causing the module to move along the rail to the determined position of the seat.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a control program stored therein, the control program causing a computer to execute:
- determining, on a basis of given information, a position of a seat on which a user sits in a vehicle, the user relating to a product placed on a module, wherein the module is provided to a ceiling of the vehicle, is movable in an inside of the vehicle along a rail provided to the ceiling of the vehicle and has a box-shaped configuration that enables the product to be placed thereon;
- causing, based on a signal transmitted from a drone that carries the product, an opening/closing device, which is provided to a roof of the vehicle and is capable of opening and closing an opening of the roof, to slide so as to open the opening of the roof;
- causing the module to move toward the opening of the roof so that the module reaches a position in which the drone carrying the product is capable of placing the product on the module;
- and
- causing the module to move along the rail to the determined position of the seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.