US 11,835,966 B2
Service system using autonomous driving
Keima Fukunaga, Tokyo (JP); Tomohito Matsuoka, Nagoya (JP); Seiichi Tsunoda, Nisshin (JP); Jiro Goto, Seto (JP); Yasutaka Etou, Okazaki (JP); and Terumi Ukai, Toyokawa (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/037,702.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-189113 (JP), filed on Oct. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0116940 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. G01C 22/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0835 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/0297 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/06316 (2013.01); G06Q 10/063114 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0835 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A service system comprising:
a common server comprising a map information database storing map data; and
a plurality of vehicles in communication with the common server to travel autonomously;
wherein each of the plurality of vehicles performs tasks of a plurality of entities by cooperating with the common server,
the common server further comprises an operating status database in which an operating status of each of the plurality of vehicles and a primary entity which has priority to use all or part of the plurality of vehicles are associated with each other,
when one of the plurality of vehicles finishes a task of the primary entity, the common server determines whether the vehicle can perform another task of an entity other than the primary entity by checking the operating status database, and if determining so, performs the task of the other entity by cooperating with the vehicle, and
when the one of the plurality of vehicles finishes the task of the primary entity, the common server determines whether the vehicle can perform another task of the other entity by comparing a spare time duration allowed before a next task of the primary entity and a required time duration to perform the other task of the other entity.