Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Daigo Fujii

Naoki Yamamuro

Mitsugu Makita

Daiki Kaneichi

Yuki Tatsumoto

Tsuyoshi Okada

Masatoshi Hayashi

Naoki Yamada

Josuke Yamane

Shingo Koumura

Ryota Nakabayashi

Akihiko Nakanishi

Takurou Sakai

Atsushi Ikegaya

Makoto Tanaka

Kazuki Takeuchi

Chie Koike

Hiroaki Sekiyama

Toshiyuki Namba

Keisuke Okamoto

Hirokazu Yabumoto

A vehicle that autonomously delivers a package includes a control unit that executes communication with an electronic signature issuing machine installed at a delivery destination for collating the package with the delivery destination, acquires an electronic signature from the electronic signature issuing machine when a collation is achieved between the package and the delivery destination, and drives the vehicle such that the package is left at the delivery destination.

Vehicle, electronic signature issuing system, storage medium, and electronic signature issuing machine

A vehicle configured to autonomously deliver a package includes a control unit configured to acquire designation information generated along with designation by a user about an unattended delivery location for delivery of the package, and drive the vehicle to place the package at the unattended delivery location designated by the user when the unattended delivery location is identified by verifying the unattended delivery location based on the acquired designation information.

Vehicle, information processing system, non-transitory storage medium, and information processing device

A server apparatus, a vehicle, a service provision system, and a non-transitory storage medium storing a program are disclosed. The server apparatus includes circuitry configured to transmit, to an information terminal of a user, information regarding a service available to the user, receive, from the information terminal, information regarding the service, selected by the user, receive, from the information terminal, package information regarding a package of the user, first location information indicating a location to receive the package from the user, first time information indicating a time to receive the package from the user, second location information indicating a location to return the package, and second time information indicating a time to return the package, and arrange a specified vehicle based on the package information, the first location information, and the first time information.

Server apparatus, vehicle, service provision system, and non-transitory storage medium storing program

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute acquiring operation information for a network-connected home appliance that is home electronic equipment which is provided in a dwelling house, and is configured to be accessible to a prescribed network and is capable of being controlled via the network, making an estimation as to entering/exiting of a vehicle utilized by a user of the dwelling house into/from a parking lot associated with the dwelling house on the basis of the operation information for the network-connected home appliance in the dwelling house, and issuing, to a management apparatus that manages entering/exiting of the vehicle, an enter/exit instruction for causing the vehicle to enter or exit if entering/exiting of the vehicle into/from the parking lot is estimated.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute: acquiring a presence or an absence of a predetermined input from the outside to parked vehicles parked in a predetermined parking area in which a plurality of vehicles are parked, identifying a vehicle target vehicle for which the predetermined input is made among the parked vehicles, and issuing a command for activating a first vehicle sensor configured to detect a peripheral information of a first vehicle and provided to the first vehicle based on the predetermined input to target vehicle, the first vehicle being a vehicle parked around target vehicle in the predetermined parking area.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A vehicle control system includes: a first vehicle including a smell detection unit, a smell determination unit configured to determine whether an intensity of the smell is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first vehicle position information indicating a position of the first vehicle, and a notification unit configured to notify a second vehicle about the first vehicle position information when the smell determination unit determines that the intensity of the smell is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value; and a second vehicle configured to communicate with the first vehicle and including an information output processing unit configured to cause an information output unit to output a warning notifying about a presence of the first vehicle when an approach determination unit determines that first vehicle is positioned less than the predetermined distance from the second vehicle.

First vehicle, second vehicle, vehicle control device, and vehicle control system

A server is used to provide a smoking vehicle to a user who wants to smoke. The server includes a communication device. The communication device is configured to receive first time information indicating a boarding time and first location information indicating a boarding location from an information terminal of the user. The communication device is configured to receive location information of the vehicle. The communication device is configured to transmit the first time information and the first location information to the vehicle.

Server, vehicle, and system

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets a provisional combination of a driver user and fellow passenger users and acquires attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger users included in the provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits the baggage attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger user included in the provisional combination and information inquiring whether or not to agree to the provisional combination to a terminal used by the driver user included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating agreement to the provisional combination from the terminal of the driver user, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and non-transitory storage medium

An information providing system includes an information providing device and a vehicle. The information providing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire second information indicating a candidate point matching first information and evaluation of the candidate point and a second information transmitting unit configured to transmit the second information to the vehicle. The first information indicates a condition for searching for a point at which the vehicle stops when the vehicle is stopped and used for resting. The vehicle includes a second information receiving unit configured to receive the second information from the information providing device and an output unit configured to output the second information.

Information providing system, vehicle, and information providing device

An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure in a mode in which a plurality of users share the same vehicle sets, when determining a combination of a driving user and fellow users, a scheduled traveling route which is a scheduled route along which the vehicle travels from a getting-in spot to a getting-off spot of each of the fellow users. Upon detecting that the vehicle is traveling off a scheduled traveling route while the fellow users are in the vehicle, the information processing apparatus transmits warning information which is information warning a first user terminal of the driving user and a second user terminal of the fellow user that the vehicle is traveling off the scheduled traveling route.

A boarding door control system controls opening and closing of a boarding door of a vehicle. The boarding door control system includes an odor detector and an electronic control unit. The odor detector is configured to detect an odor of a user outside the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to, when the odor of the user outside the vehicle, detected by the odor detector, is stronger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, prohibit opening of the boarding door.

Boarding door control system, information processing device, and boarding door control method

A vehicle attitude control device includes a controller including a low-pass filter. The controller calculates a manipulated variable of the actuator that allows the roll of the vehicle to be suppressed. The controller processes the roll angle acceleration with the low-pass filter, integrates the roll angle acceleration in which a high-frequency component has been removed by the low-pass filter, and converts a roll angle velocity obtained by the integration, into the manipulated variable. The low-pass filter has a first vehicle speed-cutoff frequency characteristic in which a cutoff frequency becomes higher with increase in the vehicle speed, and the first vehicle speed-cutoff frequency characteristic is designed such that a peak frequency in roll vibration coincides with a local minimum roll frequency in wheelbase filtering, the roll vibration being amplified by a dead time and a phase delay in control by the controller.

Vehicle attitude control device

A tire state judging device includes wheel speed sensors configured to detect rotational speeds of tires, and a control unit configured to perform frequency-analysis of detection results of the wheel speed sensors to detect a frequency of a valley part of an output, and calculate an air pressure of the tire from the detected frequency of the valley part. According to this, the tire state judging device has an effect that this can detect a state of the tire irrespective of a state of a road surface.

Tire state judging device

When a vehicle travels, due to an input from a road surface to the front wheels and rear wheels of the vehicle, unsprung vertical accelerations are generated in unsprung portions of the vehicle. An electronic control unit detects such unsprung vertical accelerations. The electronic control unit calculates a front-back force generated at each of the wheels by use of the detected unsprung vertical acceleration, and estimates a front-back vibration generated in each of the wheels. The electronic control unit calculates a front-back vibration suppressing force for absorbing the front-back vibration by use of the detected unsprung vertical acceleration. The electronic control unit subtracts the calculated front-back vibration suppressing force from the calculated front-back force, and operates the in-wheel motors via an inverter, while controlling the output torques of the in-wheel motors. Thus, the front-back vibrations of the unsprung portions of the vehicle can be suppressed.

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Tsushima, Japan

Daigo Fujii