公开(公告)号：US12115650B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US17558834

申请日：2021-12-22

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Shiro Oda ,  Tetsuya Taira ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Takeshi Matsui ,  Takayoshi Nasu ,  Kei Yoshikawa ,  Yusuke Ota ,  Yutaro Ishida ,  Yuji Onuma ,  Kyosuke Arai

IPC: B25J11/00 ,  B25J9/00 ,  G01G19/52 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06K7/14 ,  G06V20/52

CPC classification number: B25J11/0085 ,  B25J9/0003 ,  G01G19/52 ,  G05D1/0212 ,  G06K7/1417 ,  G06V20/52

Abstract: A robot control system according to a present embodiment is a robot control system for controlling a mobile robot that is configured to autonomously within a facility. When it is detected that one or more used trays, among a plurality of trays used for meal service within the facility, are returned to a first prescribed place, the system instructs the mobile robot to collect the trays returned to the first prescribed place and deliver the trays to a second prescribed place.

公开(公告)号：US12032387B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US17516891

申请日：2021-11-02

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Shiro Oda ,  Tetsuya Taira ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Takeshi Matsui ,  Takayoshi Nasu ,  Kei Yoshikawa ,  Yusuke Ota ,  Yutaro Ishida ,  Yuji Onuma ,  Kyosuke Arai

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G06Q10/083

CPC classification number: G05D1/0297 ,  G06Q10/083

Abstract: An autonomous mobile system according to the present embodiment includes an autonomous mobile robot that autonomously moves in a facility. Among priorities assigned to a plurality of the autonomous mobile robots for delivery of a transported object at a destination or passage through a waypoint in the facility, when the autonomous mobile robot has a lower priority, the autonomous mobile robot stands by in a predetermined standby area until another autonomous mobile robot having a higher priority completes the delivery or the passage.

公开(公告)号：US11964402B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US17524727

申请日：2021-11-11

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Shiro Oda ,  Tetsuya Taira ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Takeshi Matsui ,  Takayoshi Nasu ,  Kei Yoshikawa ,  Yusuke Ota ,  Yutaro Ishida ,  Yuji Onuma ,  Kyosuke Arai

IPC: B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1697

Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.

公开(公告)号：US11782449B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US17514676

申请日：2021-10-29

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Tetsuya Taira ,  Shiro Oda ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Takeshi Matsui ,  Takayoshi Nasu ,  Kei Yoshikawa ,  Yusuke Ota ,  Yutaro Ishida ,  Yuji Onuma

IPC: G05D1/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/0246

Abstract: An autonomous mobile system according to the present embodiment is an autonomous mobile system that autonomously moves in a facility provided with a corner between aisles. When the autonomous mobile system turns at the corner, the autonomous mobile system calculates a magnitude of a corner radius of turning in a traveling path based on an obstacle captured in image data of a camera that captures an image of an exit of the corner.

公开(公告)号：US11584017B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US17097476

申请日：2020-11-13

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Tomohisa Takai ,  Yuhei Yamaguchi ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Tetsuya Taira ,  Mikio Honda ,  Shiro Oda ,  Nobuhisa Otsuki

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J11/00

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conveyance system and the like capable of preferably conveying a conveyed object in accordance with a state of the conveyed object. The conveyance system includes a conveyance robot, a drive controller, which is a controller, an image data acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The conveyance robot conveys the conveyed object. The drive controller controls an operation of the conveyance robot. The image data acquisition unit acquires image data obtained by capturing images of the conveyed object. The setting unit sets an operation parameter of the conveyance robot in the drive controller based on the acquired image data.

公开(公告)号：US20220208328A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-30

申请号：US17505014

申请日：2021-10-19

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Shiro Oda ,  Tetsuya Taira ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Takeshi Matsui ,  Takayoshi Nasu ,  Kei Yoshikawa ,  Yusuke Ota ,  Yutaro Ishida ,  Yuji Onuma ,  Kyosuke Arai

IPC: G16H20/13 ,  G16H10/60 ,  B25J11/00 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: A transport system is a transport system for transporting a transported object using a mobile robot that is autonomously moveable. The mobile robot transports a plurality of the transported objects. The transport system detects that a transport destination of the transported object is different from a receiving location. The transport system outputs that there is the transported object of a different transport destination to a recipient who is present at the receiving location.

公开(公告)号：US20220197275A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17500359

申请日：2021-10-13

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Shiro Oda ,  Tetsuya Taira ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Takeshi Matsui ,  Takayoshi Nasu ,  Kei Yoshikawa ,  Yusuke Ota ,  Yutaro Ishida ,  Yuji Onuma ,  Kyosuke Arai

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G07C5/00

Abstract: A transport system transports a transported object using an autonomously moveable mobile robot. The transport system stores management information including a use start time, a use end time, and a use location for each equipment to be lent that is transported as the transported object by the mobile robot. The transport system executes a determination process for determining whether an interval from the use end time to a next use start time is equal to or longer than a predetermined time for each equipment based on the management information. The transport system transports the equipment to its storage location after an end of use of the equipment when the interval is equal to or longer than the predetermined time, and transports the equipment to a next use location of the equipment after the end of the use of the equipment when the interval is shorter than the predetermined time.

公开(公告)号：US10046763B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-14

申请号：US15159290

申请日：2016-05-19

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Takashi Inoue ,  Sokfan Yee ,  Tetsuya Taira ,  Keiji Yamashita ,  Nobuyuki Tomatsu ,  Takato Masuda

IPC: B60W30/14 ,  B60K35/00

Abstract: A control system for a vehicle includes an imaging device; a co-ECU to limit the travel speed of the vehicle; and an ECU to set the speed limit, that recognizes the speed limit value on a road while traveling, and sets the recognized speed limit value in the co-ECU. If the elapsed time since the speed limit value has been set reaches a predetermined time, the ECU estimates the speed limit value on the road while traveling, and if receiving a switch command, switches the speed limit value set in the co-ECU to the estimated speed limit value so as to avoid limiting the vehicle speed by a speed limit value that is different from the actual speed limit value on the road.

公开(公告)号：US09884625B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-06

申请号：US15098795

申请日：2016-04-14

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Tetsuya Taira ,  Yoshinori Watanabe

IPC: B60W30/18 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W10/184

CPC classification number: B60W30/18163 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/184 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W2550/20 ,  B60W2550/302 ,  B60W2550/306 ,  B60W2550/308

Abstract: A vehicle traveling control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires surrounding information on the vehicle; an external situation determination unit that determines whether there is space, into which the vehicle will enter, in the adjacent lane based on the surrounding information on the vehicle; and a vehicle control unit that causes the vehicle to change the lane along a traveling trajectory predetermined to change the lane from the traveling lane to the adjacent lane. The vehicle control unit is configured to move the vehicle along the traveling trajectory and place the vehicle in a waiting state at a waiting position if the external situation determination unit determines that there is not the space, and is configured to move the vehicle from the waiting position to the space if the external situation determination unit determines that there is the space while the vehicle is placed in the waiting state.

公开(公告)号：US12032384B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US17542633

申请日：2021-12-06

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Tetsuya Taira ,  Shiro Oda ,  Satoshi Toyoshima ,  Yuta Watanabe ,  Takeshi Matsui ,  Takayoshi Nasu ,  Kei Yoshikawa ,  Yusuke Ota ,  Yutaro Ishida ,  Yuji Onuma

IPC: G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0253 ,  G05D1/0274

Abstract: A robot control system according to an embodiment is a robot control system that controls a mobile robot configured to be able to move autonomously inside a facility. When the mobile robot moves from a first area inside the facility to a second area through a partition configured to be openable and closable, a moving route of the mobile robot is set based on the mobile robot that is determined from an image captured by a first camera that photographs the first area and an obstacle that is determined from an image captured by a second camera that photographs the second area.