US 12,084,274 B2
Method, control device, and system
Shin Sakurada, Toyota (JP); Kazuya Nishimura, Anjo (JP); and Soutaro Kaneko, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,591.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-072737 (JP), filed on Apr. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0341908 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B65F 3/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); B64U 101/00 (2023.01); B65F 9/00 (2006.01); G05D 105/00 (2024.01); G05D 105/28 (2024.01)
CPC B65F 3/00 (2013.01) [B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G01N 33/0075 (2013.01); B64U 2101/00 (2023.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01); B65F 9/00 (2013.01); G05D 2105/14 (2024.01); G05D 2105/29 (2024.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method executed by a control device, the method comprising:
acquiring odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor;
estimating a chronological change of the odor intensity of each of the garbage collection sites;
determining an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor intensity in the future of each of the garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being estimated based on the odor information, and the order being determined such that a sum of values obtained by integrating the odor intensity from a current time to a time at which a garbage collection device collects the garbage in each of the garbage collection sites is minimized; and
causing the garbage collection device to sequentially collect the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.