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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Nobuhisa Otsuki, Toyota, JP;
Haeyeon Lee, Tokyo-to, JP;
Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute, JP;
Kota Oishi, Yokohama, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A delivery method according to the present disclosure includes a step of delivering packages to designated destinations by mobile bodies traveling autonomously, each of the packages having a delivery priority level. The delivery method further includes a step of, when a number of mobile bodies gathered in a bottleneck section is larger than a number of mobile bodies capable of passing through the bottleneck section at the same time, preferentially causing a mobile body delivering a package of which the delivery priority level is higher than a package delivered by another mobile body to pass through the bottleneck section.