US 12,351,430 B2
Autonomous mobile system, autonomous mobile method, and autonomous mobile program
Shiro Oda, Anjo (JP); Tetsuya Taira, Nagakute (JP); Satoshi Toyoshima, Okazaki (JP); Yuta Watanabe, Toyota (JP); Takeshi Matsui, Nisshin (JP); Takayoshi Nasu, Okazaki (JP); Kei Yoshikawa, Nagoya (JP); Yusuke Ota, Nagakute (JP); Yutaro Ishida, Toyota (JP); Yuji Onuma, Nagoya (JP); and Kyosuke Arai, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/494,325.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-211485 (JP), filed on Dec. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0194737 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. B66B 1/34 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B66B 1/24 (2006.01); B66B 1/46 (2006.01); B66B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 1/3407 (2013.01) [B60W 60/0025 (2020.02); B66B 1/2408 (2013.01); B66B 1/3461 (2013.01); B66B 1/3476 (2013.01); B66B 1/468 (2013.01); B66B 5/0012 (2013.01); B66B 2201/21 (2013.01); B66B 2201/403 (2013.01); B66B 2201/405 (2013.01); B66B 2201/4607 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
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1. An autonomous mobile method for an autonomous mobile device that autonomously moves in a facility provided with an elevator, the autonomous mobile method comprising:
a step of acquiring the total number of the autonomous mobile devices including other autonomous mobile devices in a car of the elevator;
a step of determining whether the total number of the autonomous mobile devices in the car is larger than a threshold that is a plural number; and
a step of switching an operation mode of the car from a general mode in which a human is allowed to enter the car to a dedicated mode in which the human is prohibited from entering the car when the total number is larger than the threshold.