Control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsDaiki Yokoyama, Jyunya Katou
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Abstract
A control device for remotely controlling a vehicle in a factory where a plurality of processes are performed for manufacturing a vehicle includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a component is correctly assembled to the vehicle; and a computing unit that, when the component is correctly assembled to the vehicle, acquires at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle using a first method based on detection data acquired by an external sensor, and, when the component is not correctly assembled to the vehicle, obtains at least one of a position and an orientation using a second method different from the first method based on the detection data.
Claims3
A control device that remotely controls a vehicle traveling in a factory in which a plurality of processes is performed for manufacturing a vehicle, the vehicle being an object of the processes, and the control device comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- acquire detection data output from an external sensor;
- determine whether a component is correctly installed in the vehicle based on the acquired detection data;
- and
- calculate at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle with a first method or a second method based on a determination result of whether the component is correctly installed in the vehicle, wherein the processor:
- in response to determining that the component is correctly installed in the vehicle, calculates at least one of the position and the orientation, using the first method;
- and
- in response to determining that the component is not correctly installed in the vehicle, calculates at least one of the position and the orientation, using the second method that differs from the first method, wherein:
- the first method of calculating at least one of the position and the orientation uses ranging point data as the detection data acquired by a ranging device serving as the external sensor, and first reference data that is three-dimensional computer-aided design data representing a shape of the vehicle in which the component is correctly installed;
- and
- the second method of calculating at least one of the position and the orientation uses the ranging point data, and second reference data that is three-dimensional computer-aided design data representing a shape of the vehicle in which the component is not correctly installed.
A control device that remotely controls a vehicle traveling in a factory in which a plurality of processes is performed for manufacturing a vehicle, the vehicle being an object of the processes, and the control device comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- acquire detection data output from an external sensor;
- determine whether a component is correctly installed in the vehicle based on the acquired detection data;
- and
- calculate at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle with a first method or a second method depending on whether the component is correctly installed in the vehicle, wherein the processor:
- in response to determining that the component is correctly installed in the vehicle, calculates at least one of the position and the orientation, using the first method;
- and
- in response to determining that the component is not correctly installed in the vehicle, calculates at least one of the position and the orientation, using the second method that differs from the first method, wherein:
- the first method of calculating at least one of the position and the orientation uses ranging point data as the detection data acquired by a ranging device serving as the external sensor, and third reference data that is three-dimensional computer-aided design data representing a shape of the vehicle in a state following an object process being implemented;
- and
- the second method of calculating at least one of the position and the orientation uses the ranging point data as the detection data, and fourth reference data that is three-dimensional computer-aided design data representing a shape of the vehicle in a state prior to the object process being implemented.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.