US 12,115,876 B2
Automated valet parking system, method for providing automated valet parking service, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Shogo Momoshima, Nagoya (JP); Ryuji Okamura, Gotemba (JP); Tetsushi Okamoto, Miyoshi (JP); Hirokazu Kobayashi, Nagoya (JP); Daiki Kaneichi, Tokyo-to (JP); and Minoru Nakadori, Tokyo-to (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on May 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/749,447.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-094342 (JP), filed on Jun. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388421 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B60L 53/67 (2019.01); B60L 53/66 (2019.01); B60L 58/10 (2019.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/67 (2019.02) [B60L 53/66 (2019.02); B60L 58/10 (2019.02); B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 2510/244 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated valet parking system for providing an automated valet parking service in a parking place used by a plurality of EVs, the parking place including a plurality of charging parking frames with different distances from a departure/arrival place, the automated valet parking system comprising:
a storage device configured to store a vehicle usage schedule for each of the plurality of EVs; and
a management device configured to manage parking positions of the plurality of EVs in the parking place,
wherein the management device is configured to execute:
acquiring a remaining charge amount for each of the plurality of EVs:
determining a parking frame usage schedule of the plurality of charging parking frames based on the vehicle usage schedule for each of the plurality of EVs and the remaining charge amount for each of the plurality of EVs, the parking frame usage schedule determining which one of the plurality of charging parking frames is assigned to each one of the EVs, respectively,
with respect to an EV scheduled to be used on a next day, to assign a charging parking frame closer to the departure/arrival place as a start time of use of an EV on the next day is earlier, and
with respect to an EV not scheduled to be used on a next day and an EV with unknown usage schedule, to assign a charging parking frame farther from the departure/arrival place as the remaining charge amount of an EV is smaller; and
moving the plurality of EVs within the parking place according to the parking frame usage schedule.