US 12,321,902 B2
Management apparatus, management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
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 Dec. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/081,881.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-204588 (JP), filed on Dec. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0196491 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 10/08 (2024.01); G06Q 10/20 (2023.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/083 (2024.01)
CPC G06Q 10/20 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/08 (2013.01); G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); G06Q 10/083 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management apparatus comprising a processor configured to:
manage mobile objects that deliver articles;
determine and output a plan for maintenance of at least one target mobile object, which is a mobile object that is out for delivery among the mobile objects and is in a problematic state for delivery, based on information on the at least one target mobile object;
transmit, to the at least one target mobile object, destination information that specifies a destination of the at least one target mobile object, and control information indicating a timing at which to start or stop traveling, and a travel speed; and
control a drive unit of the at least one target mobile object to autonomously travel to the destination in accordance with the destination information and the control information, wherein:
the information on the at least one target mobile object includes a location at which the at least one target mobile object is stopped,
the processor is configured to determine the plan for maintenance of the at least one target mobile object based on the location at which the at least one target mobile object is stopped,
the at least one target mobile object comprises a plurality of target mobile objects, and
the processor is configured to determine the plan for maintenance by giving priority to the at least one target mobile object, among the plurality of target mobile objects, that is stopped in a corridor of another mobile object and blocks the corridor of the another mobile object.