US 11,809,187 B2
Mobile object, control method of mobile object, control device and program
Masato Endo, Chofu (JP); Katsuhiko Yourou, Toyota (JP); Shunji Tateishi, Kasugai (JP); and Nobukatsu Fujishita, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Feb. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/796,180.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-039214 (JP), filed on Mar. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0285238 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05D 1/12 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/021 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/12 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile object configured to autonomously travel within a park, the mobile object comprising:
a control device configured to:
control the mobile object to allow a user to get on the mobile object at a first location within the park, and to get off at a second location different from the first location,
determine whether the mobile object is in a no luggage state, the no luggage state being a state in which no luggage is left in the mobile object,
determine, based upon the determination that the mobile object is in the no luggage state, whether or not the no luggage state has continued for a predetermined period of time,
based upon the determination that the no luggage state has not continued for the predetermined period of time, determine that the user has not gotten off the mobile object, and
based upon the determination that the no luggage state has continued for the predetermined period of time, control the mobile object to autonomously return to the first location,
wherein the predetermined period of time is based on a frequency of usage of the mobile object.