US 11,703,867 B2
Vehicle
Shunji Inoue, Okazaki (JP); Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute (JP); Daisuke Sato, Toyota (JP); Takuya Watabe, Chofu (JP); Makoto Kakuchi, Toyota (JP); Seiichi Tsunoda, Nissin (JP); Keima Fukunaga, Tokyo (JP); and Kenta Miyahara, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/15,221.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-187658 (JP), filed on Oct. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0109530 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B60S 3/04 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC G05D 1/0212 (2013.01) [B60S 3/042 (2013.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle configured to travel from a first area to a second area, the vehicle comprising:
a traveling mechanism having a plurality of wheels and a traveling function; and
a controller configured to cause the traveling mechanism to perform a wheel cleaning operation and then cause the vehicle to enter the second area, wherein
the wheel cleaning operation is an operation in which one of the wheels is rotated, the other of the wheels is fixed, and the traveling mechanism causes the wheels to run idle on the first area.