US 12,406,758 B2
Transport system, transport method, and 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. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/505,014.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-215100 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0208328 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G16H 20/13 (2018.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 20/13 (2018.01) [B25J 11/009 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G05D 1/00 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transport system for transporting a transported object using a mobile robot that is autonomously moveable, wherein:
the mobile robot transports a plurality of transported objects;
a first user terminal of a first user transmits a transport request to a server, the transport request including a content of a transported object, a transport source of the transported object, a transport destination of the transported object, an estimated arrival time at the transport source, and an estimated arrival time at the transport destination;
the server transmits an operation command to the mobile robot to cause the mobile robot to go to the transport source to pick up the transported object;
after the mobile robot receives the transported object at the transport source, the mobile robot transmits a signal to a second user terminal of a second user at the transport destination, and autonomously moves to the transport destination;
the server determines a congestion status by estimating a number of mobile robots and a number of people at a first estimated time when the mobile robot passes through a first location;
the server determines a movement route from the transport source to the transport destination including one or more passing points based on the congestion status; and
when information on a location movement of a patient is input to an electronic medical record system that stores patient information, the transport system detects that the transport destination is different from the receiving location based on the information on the location movement.