Pickup system and method for controlling pickup system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
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Abstract
A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
Claims8
A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function, the pickup system comprising:
- a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user;
- a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit;
- and
- an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
A method for controlling a pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function, the method comprising causing the pickup system to
- accept a pickup request from a user,
- cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the accepted pickup request, and
- inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function, wherein
- the pickup system comprises circuitry configured to
- accept a pickup request from a user,
- cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the accepted pickup request, and
- inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.