US 12,236,391 B2
Management apparatus, management method and mobile object
Makoto Matsushita, Ichinomiya (JP); Hiroe Fukui, Toyohashi (JP); Naoki Uenoyama, Kasugai (JP); Hikaru Gotoh, Nagoya (JP); Satoshi Komamine, Nagoya (JP); and Takanori Sasano, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Feb. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/107,148.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-019763 (JP), filed on Feb. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0252402 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/20 (2023.01); B60P 3/07 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0835 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01) [B60P 3/07 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G06Q 10/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management apparatus comprising a controller configured to manage a storage mobile object that is configured to store a stored mobile object, wherein
the stored mobile object includes a first mobile object that is stored in the storage mobile object and at least one second mobile object that is not stored in the storage mobile object, and
the controller is configured to control the storage mobile object to autonomously transport the first mobile object based on destination information that specifies a destination from the management apparatus while maintaining the first mobile object, the destination including a delivery destination, wherein
the first mobile object acquires control information indicating a time at which to start or stop traveling and a travel speed, and is controlled by the controller to autonomously travel to the destination in accordance with the acquired control information, and
the controller is configured to output information indicating that the first mobile object is in a state requiring maintenance based on a plurality of states of the first mobile objection, the plurality of states including estimating whether the first mobile object is dirty or wet, whether the travel speed has dropped by a predetermined percentage from a designated speed, and whether a state of charge or a fuel level is equal to or less than a predetermined amount.