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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2020
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Kazuhiro Umeda, Nissin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure provide an operation control device for controlling vehicle-to-vehicle distances between a plurality of vehicles autonomously traveling on a circuit route. The operation control device can include a transmission device that is configured to, at a time of removal, remove at least one of the vehicles from the circuit route and transmit future time information and positional information indicative of a target position to each of the at least three vehicles except for a removal target vehicle as a vehicle targeted for the removal. Further, the future time information and positional information being transmitted such that a first vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a first vehicle and a second vehicle and a second vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the second vehicle and a third vehicle becomes equal.