Rakuten Group, Inc.

Toshiaki Tazume

Jun Takizawa

Daiki Tanaka

Takayoshi Inuma

Qingnan Zhou

Hayato Mizukami

Kenichi Lee

Takumi Yamato

The unmanned vehicle for delivering an article, includes a housing portion for housing the article, the housing portion being provided with an openable and closable door, the door being closeable on a receiving surface of the article. Then, the unmanned vehicle identifies a direction of wind blown onto the unmanned vehicle; and on the basis of the identified direction of the wind, suppresses closing of the door, opened when the unmanned vehicle is stopped, due to an influence of the wind.

Unmanned vehicle and delivery system

A control device () controls a delivery vehicle and includes a first determiner () that determines a point (i) by using each of a plurality of shipping locations as a reference and (ii) on the basis of a preparation time from when a shipping request is accepted until when shipment becomes possible at each of the plurality of shipping locations. Additionally, the control device () includes a controller () that allows the delivery vehicle to accept a shipping location of a package or a delivery destination of the package as a movement destination so as to set a state of the delivery vehicle to a state of accepting the movement destination, moves the delivery vehicle to the movement destination when the state of the delivery vehicle is the state of accepting the movement destination, and moves the delivery vehicle toward the point when the state of the delivery vehicle is a state of not accepting the movement destination.

Control device and method for controlling an unmanned delivery vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle executes: a movement control process that moves the unmanned aerial vehicle to a delivery area including a delivery address to which a package is to be delivered, the delivery area including delivery destination candidates, and each of the delivery destination candidates including an identification information indicator located at a position where the identification information indicator is readable from outside; an identification information acquiring process that acquires identification information associated with each delivery destination candidate by reading a corresponding identification information indicator; a delivery destination identifying process that identifies, as a delivery destination, a delivery destination candidate in which the acquired identification information matches the delivery address; a position identifying process that identifies a receiving position of the package based on a position of the identified delivery destination; and a placing process that places the package at the identified receiving position.

Unmanned aerial device, information processing method, and computer-readable medium that records control program

The UGVis configured to move the article stored in the storing chamber Bto the storing chamber Band perform the temperature control for the storing chamber Bin a case where it is determined that the predetermined condition regarding the article stored in the storing chamber Bamong the plurality of storing chambers B is satisfied.

Control device, transportation machine, control method, and transportation system

Provided is an information processing apparatus acquiring a recipient user who is a delivery destination, determining whether or not to use already issued authentication information for receiving a package based on the recipient user and authentication information stored in a storage unit, the storage unit storing the already issued authentication information in association with a user who is an issuing destination, issuing new authentication information as the authentication information used for receiving the package and storing the issued authentication information in association with the recipient user in the storage unit when it is determined that the already issued authentication information is not used for receiving the package, and acquiring the authentication information stored in the storage unit as the authentication information used for receiving the package when it is determined that the already issued authentication information is used for receiving the package.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

For a user to receive a package more smoothly from an unmanned ground vehicle, a delivery system includes an unmanned ground vehicle having at least two surfaces each of which is provided with a door of a storage compartment for receiving a package and facing in different directions. The delivery system determines a surface provided with a door of a storage compartment that stores a package to be received by the user next among the at least two surfaces, and adjusts a direction of the unmanned ground vehicle based on the determined surface before the user reaches the unmanned ground vehicle.

Delivery system, delivery method and delivery device

A logistics management server includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to acquire route plans for unmanned vehicles each delivering a package to a delivery point. The circuitry is further configured to determine whether a first unmanned vehicle and a second unmanned vehicle will approach each other based on the acquired route plan for the first unmanned vehicle and the acquired route plan for the second unmanned vehicle, and when determining that the first unmanned vehicle and the second unmanned vehicle will approach each other, set sound identification information such that a sound output from the first unmanned vehicle and a sound output from the second unmanned vehicle each have a different characteristic.

Logistics management server, information processing method, and information processing system

An article delivery system S acquires alternative article selection information indicating an alternative article selected by a user related to the delivery destination from among the one or more alternative articles after the unmanned vehicle starts moving toward the delivery destination; and performs control for transferring the alternative article indicated by the alternative article selection information at the delivery destination.

Article delivery system and unmanned vehicle

An information processing device () includes an information acquirer that acquires to-be-delivered package information related to a package to be delivered to a user, and movement information related to a movement of the user to a first geographical point, and an information generator that generates, on the basis of the movement information, receiving method information expressing a receiving method whereby the user receives the package related to the to-be-delivered package information, the receiving method information being generated from when the movement information is acquired to when the user arrives at the first geographical point.

Information processing device, method, and program

The UAVincludes a dust sensorand a dust-preventing functionand performs a processing for a different UAVnot provided with a dust-preventing function on the basis of a dust amount detected by the dust sensorduring a flight of the UAV

Processing system, unmanned aerial vehicle, and flight route designation method

A logistics management system includes a memory that stores operation record information indicating a record of each of users operating an unmanned vehicle and a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to specify, when the unmanned vehicle moves on a carrying route that includes carrying points, a user who operates the unmanned vehicle at each of the carrying points, obtain the operation record information corresponding to the specified user, and specify, based on the operation record information, an estimated operation time for each of the users to operate the unmanned vehicle and determine a carrying sequence using the estimated operation time. The carrying sequence is a sequence in which the unmanned vehicle moves between the carrying points on the carrying route.

Logistics management system, logistics management method, and program

The control unitof the UAVdetects the UAVas a search target on the basis of the sensing data obtained by sensing of the sensor unit, and moves the UAVto a position above the detected UAV. Then, the control unitidentifies a current position of the UAVwhen the UAVhas moved to the position above the UAV, and transmits search position information indicating the identified current position as the current position of the UAV

Control device, control method, and unmanned aerial vehicle search system

A logistics system includes an energy remaining amount identifying unit configured to obtain or estimate an energy remaining amount of an unmanned vehicle subsequent to delivery of an item to a delivery address, the unmanned vehicle being driven by energy supplied from an energy source, a range setting unit configured to set a pickup possible range according to the energy remaining amount, the pickup possible range being used to select pickup location candidates where the unmanned vehicle is able to pick up an item and return to a station of the unmanned vehicle on a return path, the return path including the delivery address as a start point and including the station as an end point, and a pickup location determining unit configured to determine a pickup location from the pickup location candidates located in the pickup possible range.

Logistics system, logistics management method, and computer-readable medium that stores logistics management program

An information processing device includes at least one memory storing program code and at least one processor. The program code includes acquisition code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire a status of an order. The program code also includes control code configured to cause the at least one processor to execute movement control according to the acquired status when the acquired status is a status before transition to a completion status, the movement control being control over a vehicle caused to transport a target of the order and suppressing an increase in movement distance from a location of the vehicle to a start location at which the transport is started, the completion status being a state in which the order is completed.

Information processing device, system, and method

The present invention has an object of providing an unmanned aircraft system, control device and control method which can more easily anchor a package to a linear member. An unmanned aircraft system () of an embodiment of the present invention includes: an unmanned aircraft () including a hoisting mechanism capable of feeding out and hoisting a linear member (); a flight control unit () which causes the unmanned aircraft () to take off in a state in which a package (T) anchored to the linear member () is arranged on a ground surface; and a hoisting control unit () which causes the linear member () to be hoisted by the hoisting mechanism (), after the unmanned aircraft () has taken off, in a case of a hoisting condition indicating a state enabling hoisting of the linear member () being satisfied.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiaki Tazume