US 12,172,677 B2
Delivery system, control method therefor and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
Kunihiro Iwamoto, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP); Yuta Itozawa, Nagoya Aichi-ken (JP); and Hirotaka Komura, Setagaya-ku Tokyo-to (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/978,381.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-181824 (JP), filed on Nov. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146237 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60P 1/43 (2006.01); B60P 3/07 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0832 (2023.01)
CPC B60W 60/00256 (2020.02) [B60P 1/43 (2013.01); B60P 3/07 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0832 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delivery system comprising:
an autonomously-moving-type delivery vehicle configured to deliver an article; and
a transportation vehicle configured to carry and transport the delivery vehicle, wherein
the delivery system is configured so that after the transportation vehicle carrying the delivery vehicle travels toward a delivery destination of the article, the delivery vehicle gets out of the transportation vehicle and delivers the article to the delivery destination,
the transportation vehicle includes an unloading mechanism for letting the delivery vehicle get out of the transportation vehicle and a control unit configured to control the unloading mechanism,
the control unit determines whether the delivery vehicle can get out of the transportation vehicle based on a situation of the transportation vehicle,
upon determination that the delivery vehicle can get out of the transportation vehicle, the control unit controls the unloading mechanism so as to let the delivery vehicle get out of the transportation vehicle, and transmits a control signal to the delivery vehicle, and
the delivery vehicle receives the control signal and gets out of the transportation vehicle based on the control signal.