Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kiyohiro Sogen

Hiroyuki Aono

Junichi Meguro

Yoshihiro Ohe

Akiomi Kunisa

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store a location of an autonomous driving prohibition section on a map in association with a release condition set based on a traveling state of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to acquire the traveling state of the vehicle including the location of the vehicle on the map from the vehicle through communication, the control unit being configured to determine whether or not to release the autonomous driving prohibition section based on the acquired traveling state of the vehicle, the location of the autonomous driving prohibition section and the release condition of the autonomous driving prohibition section, the location and the release condition being stored in the storage unit.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of autonomous driving vehicles includes: a storage unit configured to store a location of an autonomous driving difficult section on a map in association with a predetermined release condition; and a control unit configured to acquire from the plurality of autonomous driving vehicles reporting data of each of the autonomous driving vehicles through communication, the reporting data including a location of the vehicle on the map and at least one of reliability of the autonomous driving, difficulty state information indicative of the autonomous driving being difficult or not difficult, and a result of driver intervention, and the control unit being configured to determine whether to release the autonomous driving difficult section based on the acquired reporting data and on the location and the release condition of the autonomous driving difficult section stored in the storage unit.

An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit; and a control unit configured to acquire the locations of the plurality of autonomous driving vehicles on the map and the difficulty state information from the vehicles through communication, totalize the number of reports on the difficulty state information for each of levels of difficulty in each of traveling sections based on the vehicles locations and difficulty state information stored in the storage unit, determine whether the totalized number is equal to or more than a threshold value for each of the levels of difficulty and determine a traveling section, where at least one of the numbers of reports is equal to or more than the threshold value, as an autonomous driving difficult section, distribute to the vehicles the autonomous driving difficult section, and determine the autonomous driving difficult section with a smaller threshold value as the level of difficulty is higher.

Information processing apparatus

A robot includes a distance sensor configured to measure a distance to an object existing within a movement environment of the robot and autonomously operates based on the distance information measured by at least one of the distance sensor and a distance sensor installed within the movement environment. The robot includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an operation region through which the robot passes when the robot performs an operation, a setting unit configured to set a measurement position of the distance sensor at which the operation region acquired by the acquiring unit is covered by a measurement region of the distance sensor, and a control unit configured to control the robot to operate based on the distance information measured by the distance sensor at the measurement position set by the setting unit.

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Kiyohiro Sogen