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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
May. 31, 2021
Rakuten Group, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Tazume, Tokyo, JP;
Rakuten Group, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.