US 11,755,009 B2
Transport system, transport method, and program
Shiro Oda, Anjo Aichi-ken (JP); Tetsuya Taira, Nagakute Aichi-ken (JP); Satoshi Toyoshima, Okazaki Aichi-ken (JP); Yuta Watanabe, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP); Takeshi Matsui, Nisshin Aichi-ken (JP); Takayoshi Nasu, Okazaki Aichi-ken (JP); Kei Yoshikawa, Nagoya Aichi-ken (JP); Yusuke Ota, Nagakute Aichi-ken (JP); Yutaro Ishida, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP); Yuji Onuma, Nagoya Aichi-ken (JP); and Kyosuke Arai, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/500,359.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-212179 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0197275 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0027 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G07C 5/006 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0216 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transport method for transporting a transported object using a mobile robot that is autonomously moveable, the transport method comprising:
storing 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;
executing 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;
transporting the equipment to a storage location of the equipment after an end of use of the equipment when the interval is equal to or longer than the predetermined time;
transporting 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;
notifying contact information of a maintenance personnel who performs maintenance of the equipment of a transport destination of the equipment determined as a result of the determination process;
notifying contact information of a first maintenance personnel who performs maintenance of the equipment of the transport destination of the equipment, when the transport destination of the equipment is determined to be the storage location of the equipment as a result of the determination process; and
notifying contact information of a second maintenance personnel who performs maintenance of the equipment and who is different from the first maintenance personnel of the transport destination of the equipment, when the transport destination of the equipment is determined to be the next use location of the equipment as a result of the determination process,
wherein the predetermined time is determined based on a moving time of the mobile robot from the use location to the storage location and a moving time of the mobile robot from the use location to the next use location.