US 12,309,020 B2
Management device, remote operation system, and management method
Yuki Suehiro, Ichikawa (JP); and Toshinobu Watanabe, Tokyo-to (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/098,253.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-020475 (JP), filed on Feb. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0261927 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0604 (2022.01); H04L 67/125 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0604 (2013.01) [H04L 67/125 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management device that communicates with a moving body being a target of a remote operation performed by a remote operator and a remote operator terminal on a side of the remote operator,
the management device comprising one or more processors located outside the moving body and the remote operator terminal,
the one or more processors being configured to:
during the remote operation of the moving body, receive first information related to the remote operation from a first device that is one of the moving body and the remote operator terminal, and transmit the first information to a second device that is another of the moving body and the remote operator terminal;
execute a communication abnormality determination process that determines whether or not an abnormality occurs in a first communication from the first device to the management device during the remote operation of the moving body based on a communication state of the first information; and
when it is determined that the abnormality occurs in the first communication during the remote operation of the moving body, notify the first device on a transmission side of the first communication of occurrence of the abnormality in the first communication,
wherein the remote operator terminal is configured to control the operation of the moving body through the first communication.