US 11,966,874 B2
Logistics system and logistics robot control method
Nobuhisa Otsuki, Toyota (JP); Haeyeon Lee, Tokyo (JP); Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute (JP); and Kota Oishi, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on May 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/742,471.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-082693 (JP), filed on May 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0366356 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/083 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/083 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A logistics system providing a logistics service utilizing a logistics robot that delivers a package by autonomous traveling,
the logistics system comprising one or more processors configured to:
execute a delivery route determination process that determines a delivery route along which the logistics robot delivers the package, and
execute a logistics robot control process that controls the logistics robot so as to deliver the package along the delivery route, wherein
when there are a plurality of delivery route candidates from a position of the logistics robot to a delivery destination of the package, the one or more processors are further configured to select, as the delivery route, a delivery route candidate from the plurality of delivery route candidates based on at least a congestion degree of each of the plurality of delivery route candidates, and a time of day, the congestion degree being considered differently in selecting the delivery route based on the time of day, and
the one or more processors are further configured to:
select a delivery route candidate with a lowest congestion degree among the plurality of delivery route candidates as the delivery route during a first time if day; and
select a delivery route candidate with a highest congestion degree among the plurality of delivery route candidates as the delivery route during a second time of day different from the first time of day.