US 12,111,661 B2
Mobile body system
Yoshihiro Shimada, Tokyo (JP); Zixun Mei, Tokyo (JP); Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Mitaka (JP); Hideki Fukudome, Toyota (JP); and Tomoko Asai, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/720,298.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-094198 (JP), filed on Jun. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0390949 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B60P 1/02 (2006.01); B60P 3/00 (2006.01); B62D 33/04 (2006.01); B62D 53/00 (2006.01); G01G 19/08 (2006.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01)
CPC G05D 1/0212 (2013.01) [B60P 1/025 (2013.01); B60P 3/007 (2013.01); B62D 33/042 (2013.01); B62D 53/00 (2013.01); G01G 19/08 (2013.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile body system including a traveling unit having an autonomous traveling function and a at least one trolley unit having a housing portion for loading an object, the mobile body system comprising:
a detector that detects an amount of objects placed on the housing portion in a first trolley unit; and
a processor that determines an operation of the traveling unit based on the amount of objects detected by the detector, wherein
when the amount of objects detected by the detector is less than a predetermined amount, the processor determines an operation of the traveling unit in which the traveling unit tows a second trolley unit on which an object of the objects is placed to the location of the first trolley unit,
wherein the traveling unit executes the determined operation.