US 12,313,416 B2
Travel plan generating method and travel plan generating system for mobile vehicles based on remaining energy
Satoru Hayama, Hyogo (JP)
Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/639,106.
Application 18/639,106 is a continuation of application No. 17/224,485, filed on Apr. 7, 2021, granted, now 11,988,516.
Application 17/224,485 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/046119, filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-049061 (JP), filed on Mar. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0263953 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0835 (2023.01); B60L 58/13 (2019.01)
CPC G01C 21/3469 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01); B60L 58/13 (2019.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A travel plan generating method to be executed by a computer, the computer including a non-transitory memory configured to store one or more programs and a controller configured to execute the one or more programs to perform the travel plan generating method, comprising:
determining a start point including displaying a map on a touch screen and receiving an input, the start point being a point where a first mobile vehicle is located;
determining an end point including displaying the map on the touch screen and receiving an input, the end point being a destination end-point of the first mobile vehicle or a second mobile vehicle;
estimating a transition of an amount of remaining energy in the second mobile vehicle when travelling to the end point based on remaining energy information received from the second mobile vehicle;
determining a contact point as a destination with reference to the start point, the end point, a position of the first mobile vehicle based on GPS coordinates received from the first mobile vehicle, a position of the second mobile vehicle based on GPS coordinates received from the second mobile vehicle, and the remaining energy in the second mobile vehicle, the contact point being a point where the first mobile vehicle contacts the second mobile vehicle; and
generating a plan for causing the first mobile vehicle to travel from the start point to the contact point determined and causing the second mobile vehicle to travel from the contact point determined to the end point.