Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sho Otaki

Hiromitsu Urano

Hojung Jung

Takayuki Iwamoto

Yasuo Sakaguchi

Ryuji Funayama

Hiromitsu Kobayashi

Toshiki Kindo

Toru Takashima

Satoru Niwa

Takashi Suzuki

Kentaro Ichikawa

Masahiro Harada

Kosuke Akatsuka

Ayako Shimizu

Shintaro Shiba

Bunyo Okumura

Rio Suda

A sensor image generated based on data obtained from a remote sensor is displayed on a display of a terminal communicating with the remote sensor. The remote sensor includes a sensor mounted on a moving body. The sensor image includes a moving body image representing an image generated based on data obtained from the sensor mounted on the moving body. In the moving body image, right and left regions are set with respect to front of the moving body. Right and left recognition assistances are superimposed respectively on the right and left regions. A color of the right recognition assistance is different from a color of the left recognition assistance.

Remote image display method and remote image display system

A processor performs a mediation process of mediating remote support of at least one vehicle when receiving a request for remote support from the at least one vehicle. In the mediation process, at least two vehicles are organized into at least one group based on map information and position and traveling direction information of the at least two vehicles when requests for remote support from the at least two vehicles have been received in the same time period. The support order of the vehicles in the at least one group is determined for each group based on the map information and the position and traveling direction information of the at least two vehicles. The surrounding image information of the corresponding vehicle is transmitted to at least one support device that performs remote support of the vehicles organized into the at least one group in the support order.

Remote server, method, and storage medium for enabling efficient processing of a plurality of requests for remote vehicular support

In a vehicle remote instruction system, a remote commander issues a remote instruction relating to travel of an autonomous driving vehicle based on sensor information from an external sensor that detects an external environment of the autonomous driving vehicle. The vehicle remote instruction system sets a range of information to be transmitted to the remote commander among the sensor information detected by the external sensor, as a limited information range, based on the external situation or an external situation obtained based on map information and a trajectory of the autonomous driving vehicle.

Vehicle remote instruction system

An autonomous driving system configured to perform an autonomous driving of a vehicle includes a trigger input request unit configured to perform a trigger input request for requesting a driver of the vehicle to perform a trigger input for causing the vehicle to pass through a target point if the autonomously driving vehicle approaches the target point set in advance and positioned on a traveling route of the vehicle, a trigger input detection unit configured to detect the driver's trigger input, and a vehicle control unit configured to cause the vehicle to pass through the target point if the trigger input is detected, and causes the vehicle to decelerate and stop without passing through the target point if the trigger input is not detected.

Autonomous driving system and control method of autonomous driving system

A vehicle dispatch system for dispatching an autonomous driving vehicle capable of traveling with remote assistance by a remote operator. The vehicle dispatch system comprising: a required time prediction unit for predicting the required time until the autonomous driving vehicle arrives at a point of dispatch by a route, a remote assistance request number calculation unit for calculating the remote assistance request number on a route, and a vehicle dispatch determination unit for determining the vehicle dispatch route to the point of dispatch where the autonomous driving vehicle travels based on the required time for each route and the remote assistance request number for each route, when the route search unit searched for a plurality of the routes.

Vehicle dispatch system, vehicle dispatch server, and vehicle dispatch method

An autonomous driving device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a first ECU configured to autonomously drive the vehicle, and a second ECU configured to operate the vehicle under remote control from an outside. The first ECU is configured to keep an activated state while the second ECU is operating the vehicle. The second ECU is configured to keep a power saving state while the first ECU is autonomously driving the vehicle.

Autonomous vehicle driving device for managing power saving state, autonomous vehicle driving method for managing power saving state, and plurality of non-transitory storage media for managing power saving state

A vehicle remote instruction system that includes a remote autonomous driving vehicle and a remote instruction apparatus in which the remote commander issues the remote instruction includes: a remote instruction request reception unit configured to receive the remote instruction request; a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information on a location where the remote autonomous driving vehicle transmitted the remote instruction request; a request occurring location determination unit configured to determine a location where the remote instruction request is transmitted at equal to or higher frequency than an instruction request frequency set in advance, based on the acquired remote instruction request and the position information; and a passing-detour location setting unit configured to set the location where the remote instruction request is transmitted at equal to or higher frequency than the instruction request frequency, as a passing-detour location for the remote autonomous driving vehicle.

An autonomous driving device includes a plurality of driving function ECUs having a function to drive a vehicle in place of an occupant, and a driving function switch ECU is configured to individually change operating states of the driving function ECUs according to a route to a destination and remaining power. The driving function ECUs include an autonomous driving ECU configured to autonomously drive the vehicle, and a remote control ECU configured to operate the vehicle according to remote control from outside.

Autonomous driving device, autonomous driving method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a controller. When a cancellation of a reservation for use of an on-demand bus occurs, the controller determines a cancellation fee to be charged to a user who makes the cancellation, based on timing of occurrence of the cancellation.

Information processing apparatus, system, and method for determining a cancellation fee for an on-demand bus

A vehicle remote instruction systemtransmits a remote instruction request from an autonomous driving vehicleto a remote instruction apparatus, and controls travel of the autonomous driving vehiclebased on a remote instruction transmitted from the remote instruction apparatusin response to the remote instruction request. The vehicle remote instruction systemincludes a delay determination unitconfigured to determine whether or not a communication delay occurs between the remote instruction apparatusand the autonomous driving vehicle, and a rejection unitconfigured to reject the remote instruction transmitted in response to the remote instruction request if it is determined by the delay determination unitthat the communication delay occurs.

A vehicle remote instruction training device that trains a remote commander who issues a remote instruction to an actual autonomous vehicle includes: a commander interface including an information output unit that shows a situation of the actual autonomous vehicle to the remote commander and an instruction input unit for the remote commander to input the remote instruction to the actual autonomous vehicle; a virtual situation display unit that shows a virtual situation of a virtual vehicle with time variation to a remote commander who is a trainee through the information output unit; a remote instruction input recognition unit that recognizes an input of the remote instruction input into the instruction input unit; and an evaluation unit that evaluates the remote commander based on timing at which they issue the remote instruction with respect to the virtual situation of the virtual vehicle or on a content of the remote instruction.

Vehicle remote instruction training device

An autonomous driving delivery system that delivers luggage to a user by an autonomous driving vehicle includes: an early delivery request reception unit configured to receive a request for early delivery of the luggage from a user's mobile terminal; a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of the user's mobile terminal when the early delivery request reception unit receives the request for early delivery; a candidate delivery location proposal unit configured to propose at least one candidate delivery location from a plurality of predetermined stop locations to the user's mobile terminal based on the position information when the position information is acquired by the position information acquisition unit; and a delivery location determination unit configured to designate the candidate delivery location selected by the user as a delivery location of the luggage.

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Yokohama, Japan

Sho Otaki