US 11,656,621 B2
Conveyance control system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing conveyance control program, and conveyance control method
Tomohisa Takai, Nagoya (JP); Yuhei Yamaguchi, Toyota (JP); Satoshi Toyoshima, Okazaki (JP); Yuta Watanabe, Toyota (JP); Mikio Honda, Toyota (JP); Shiro Oda, Anjyo (JP); Tetsuya Taira, Nagakute (JP); and Nobuhisa Otsuki, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/96,171.
Claims priority of application No. JP2019-212518 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0157317 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0088 (2013.01) [G01C 21/206 (2013.01); G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); G05D 1/0011 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05B 2219/50391 (2013.01); G05D 1/0231 (2013.01); G05D 1/0255 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0211 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyance control system configured to control a conveyance robot to autonomously move and convey a conveyance object to a destination, the conveyance control system comprising:
at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions; and
at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to:
transmit, via a network, to an information terminal of a scheduled recipient of the conveyance object, first information indicating the destination where the conveyance object is to be received by the scheduled recipient so that the scheduled recipient is able to receive the conveyance object at the destination,
when the conveyance robot attempts to open a door of a security area to enter the security area and the conveyance robot detects a person following the conveyance robot, change the destination after the conveyance robot starts conveying the conveyance object such that the conveyance robot does not enter the security area; and
when the destination of the conveyance robot is changed, transmit, via the network, to the information terminal of the scheduled recipient of the conveyance object, second information indicating the changed destination so that the scheduled recipient is able to receive the conveyance object at the changed destination.