US 12,276,131 B2
Management system, management device, management method, and storage medium
Naoto Shikano, Wako (JP); Tomoki Murozono, Wako (JP); Shuhei Kondo, Wako (JP); Koji Masuda, Wako (JP); and Ryoma Taguchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/637,822
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 23, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/035740
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 24, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/060257, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-173489 (JP), filed on Sep. 24, 2019; application No. 2019-173490 (JP), filed on Sep. 24, 2019; and application No. 2019-173492 (JP), filed on Sep. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0282512 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. E04H 6/16 (2006.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); E04H 6/12 (2006.01); E04H 6/18 (2006.01); E04H 6/24 (2006.01); E04H 6/42 (2006.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC E04H 6/18 (2013.01) [E04H 6/12 (2013.01); E04H 6/24 (2013.01); E04H 6/424 (2013.01); G08G 1/146 (2013.01); G08G 1/148 (2013.01); B60W 30/06 (2013.01)] 53 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management system comprising:
a vehicle management device configured to manage parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space; and
a vehicle conveying device configured to be able to convey the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle,
wherein the vehicle management device includes a controller configured to control the vehicle conveying device so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space when a request for parking the vehicle located within a section where parking in the parking space is able to be requested has been received,
wherein the controller controls the vehicle conveying device so that a distance from another vehicle parked within the parking space in the forward-backward direction is less than a prescribed distance and the vehicle is parallel parked with respect to the another vehicle, and
wherein, when a plurality of vehicles are parallel parked in the parking space, the vehicle conveying device is on standby in a state in which at least one of a foremost vehicle and a rearmost vehicle among the plurality of vehicles that are parallel parked is able to be conveyed.
 
9. A management system comprising:
a vehicle conveying device configured to convey a vehicle that has entered a management area; and
a management device configured to manage the management area,
wherein the management device includes
a determiner configured to determine whether or not it is necessary to convey a target vehicle that has entered the management area; and
a first controller configured to cause the target vehicle to be conveyed to a target conveyance point by controlling the vehicle conveying device when the determiner determines that it is necessary to convey the target vehicle,
wherein the determiner determines that it is unnecessary to convey the target vehicle when the target vehicle is able to travel autonomously according to control of the management device,
wherein the management device further includes a second controller configured to cause the target vehicle to move to a target movement point by controlling the target vehicle when the determiner determines that it is unnecessary to convey the target vehicle, and
wherein the first controller causes the target vehicle to be conveyed to a target conveyance point within a range of a first area near a gate of the management area by controlling the vehicle conveying device, and
wherein the second controller causes the target vehicle to be moved to the target movement point within a range of a second area that is not near the gate of the management area by controlling the target vehicle.
 
21. A management method of managing parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space, the management method comprising:
controlling, by a computer of a vehicle management device, a vehicle conveying device capable of conveying the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space when a request for parking the vehicle located within a section where parking in the parking space is able to be requested has been received; and
controlling, by the computer of the vehicle management device, the vehicle conveying device so that a distance from another vehicle parked within the parking space in the forward-backward direction is less than a prescribed distance and the vehicle is parallel parked with respect to the another vehicle,
wherein, when a plurality of vehicles are parallel parked in the parking space, the vehicle conveying device is on standby in a state in which at least one of a foremost vehicle and a rearmost vehicle among the plurality of vehicles that are parallel parked is able to be conveyed.
 
22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for managing parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space, the program causing a computer of a vehicle management device to:
control a vehicle conveying device capable of conveying the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space when a request for parking the vehicle located within a section where parking in the parking space is able to be requested has been received; and
control the vehicle conveying device so that a distance from another vehicle parked within the parking space in the forward-backward direction is less than a prescribed distance and the vehicle is parallel parked with respect to the another vehicle,
wherein, when a plurality of vehicles are parallel parked in the parking space, the vehicle conveying device is on standby in a state in which at least one of a foremost vehicle and a rearmost vehicle among the plurality of vehicles that are parallel parked is able to be conveyed.
 
23. A management device for managing a management area, the management device comprising:
a determiner configured to determine whether or not it is necessary to convey a target vehicle that has entered the management area; and
a first controller configured to cause the target vehicle to be conveyed to a target conveyance point by controlling a vehicle conveying device that conveys a vehicle that has entered the management area when the determiner determines that it is necessary to convey the target vehicle,
wherein the determiner determines that it is unnecessary to convey the target vehicle when the target vehicle is able to travel autonomously according to control of the management device,
wherein the management device further includes a second controller configured to cause the target vehicle to move to a target movement point by controlling the target vehicle when the determiner determines that it is unnecessary to convey the target vehicle,
wherein the first controller causes the target vehicle to be conveyed to a target conveyance point within a range of a first area near a gate of the management area by controlling the vehicle conveying device, and
wherein the second controller causes the target vehicle to be moved to the target movement point within a range of a second area that is not near the gate of the management area by controlling the target vehicle.