Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Hideo Yanagisawa

Norihiko Kato

Kazunori Shimazaki

Tomio Kimura

Masami Tomioka

Yutaka Nakashima

Akinori Wakabayashi

Kenji Hashimoto

Itsuki Noda

A warehouse system includes a first moving unit configured to move articles in an extending direction of a storage rack on the storage rack; a second moving unit configured to be operated independently from the first moving unit and to move selected articles toward an exit side on a transfer rack; and a third moving unit configured to be operated independently from the first moving unit and the second moving unit and to transfer the selected articles from the storage rack to the transfer rack. The third moving unit includes a pushing device configured to push the selected articles toward the transfer rack; a guide device configured to guide the pushing device in the extending direction of the storage rack; and a control device configured to control the pushing device and the guide device.

Warehouse system

A parking assistance apparatus makes it easy for a driver to grasp a relative positional relation between a vehicle and a target parking position and makes it possible to park the vehicle at the target parking position in a parking space with accuracy. An image of a mark M in a parking space S is taken by a vehicle-side camera. A relative position calculation portioncalculates a relative positional relation between the vehicle and a target parking position T based on the taken image of the mark M. A backward locus calculation portioncalculates an expected locus when the vehicle moves based on the relative positional relation and based on a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor. An image of the parking space S is taken by a parking-space-side cameraand transmitted to a vehicle-side apparatus. An image composition portioncomposes the image of the parking space S from the parking-space-side cameraand the expected locus calculated by the backward locus calculation portion. The composed image is displayed on the monitorlocated in the vicinity of a drivers seat of the vehicle.

Parking assistance apparatus, vehicle-side apparatus of parking assistance apparatus, parking assist method, and parking assist program

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Aichi, Japan

Hideo Yanagisawa