US 12,172,835 B2
Management system, management method, and program
Shiro Oda, Anjo Aichi-ken (JP); Tetsuya Taira, Nagakute Aichi-ken (JP); Satoshi Toyoshima, Okazaki Aichi-ken (JP); Yuta Watanabe, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP); Takeshi Matsui, Nisshin Aichi-ken (JP); Takayoshi Nasu, Okazaki Aichi-ken (JP); Kei Yoshikawa, Nagoya Aichi-ken (JP); Yusuke Ota, Nagakute Aichi-ken (JP); Yutaro Ishida, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP); Yuji Onuma, Nagoya Aichi-ken (JP); and Kyosuke Arai, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/507,036.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-215177 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0204268 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01)
CPC B65G 1/137 (2013.01) [B25J 11/009 (2013.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management system comprising:
an autonomously movable mobile robot configured to be managed by the management system, wherein:
the mobile robot includes a storage locker capable of containing a transport article and being electrically locked or unlocked;
the management system is configured to determine whether to unlock the storage locker according to a security level set for unlocking the storage locker; and
the management system is configured to, when the management system receives a notification of an emergency event, lower the security level when a predetermined security level lowering condition is satisfied, the predetermined security level lowering condition is set for each transport article contained in the storage locker.