VEHICLE, SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, VEHICLE MOTION PRODUCING METHOD

• US 20100324753A1
• Filed: 06/16/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: OKUMATSU, Yoshihiro
• Application Number:
  US12/816,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20100324753A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 11/007 Automatic balancing machines with single main ground engaging wheel or coaxial wheels supporting a rider
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A robot executes motion by modifying a motion behavior on the basis of a motion direction of a user on board according to a state of mind of the user on board. This produces the motion of the vehicle under conditions that reflect the user'"'"'s state of mind. The robot preferably includes a direction input portion that receives the motion direction from the user and generates a reference input corresponding to the motion direction, and an inverted control reference input generator that generates a motion reference input that makes the robot execute motion in a behavior different from the motion behavior on the basis of the motion direction, based at least on a reduction coefficient with a value corresponding to the user'"'"'s state of mind and the reference input generated in the direction input portion. The reduction coefficient is determined by measuring the pulse rate of the user on board.

Claims

1. A vehicle that executes motion by modifying a motion behavior on the basis of a motion direction of a user on board according to a state of mind of the user on board.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1, comprising:

a direction input portion that receives the motion direction from the user and generates a reference input corresponding to the motion direction; and

a motion reference input generator that generates a motion reference input that makes the vehicle execute motion in a behavior different from the motion behavior on the basis of the motion direction, based at least on a state value with a value corresponding to the state of mind of the user and the reference input generated in the direction input portion.

3. The vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the state value is determined based on measurement of a physical state of the user on board.

4. The vehicle according to claim 2, further comprising:

a sensor that measures a physical state of the user on board; and

a state value generator that generates the state value based on an output of the sensor.

5. The vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the state value generator generates the state value based on an evaluation value generated by evaluating the physical state of the user measured by the sensor.

6. The vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the state value generator generates the state value based on an identification value assigned to each user in addition to the evaluation value.

7. The vehicle according to claim 6, wherein the state value generator searches for information by using the evaluation value and the identification value as a search key and sets a value found by searching to the state value.

8. The vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the state value generator reevaluates the physical state of the user when the vehicle is executing motion by modifying the motion behavior on the basis of the motion direction of the user, and updates a value of the state value generated by the state value generator under identical conditions based on the reevaluation result.

9. The vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the motion reference input generator generates a motion reference input for making the vehicle execute motion to improve the state of mind of the user when the state value is generated by the state value generator during a period when the vehicle is not moving.

10. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle is a vehicle that moves through a space with a position of a body relative to a wheel being controlled.

11. The vehicle according to claim 10, further comprising:

an angular speed sensor that measures an angular speed of the body; and

a measuring portion that measures a change in a relative position between the body and the wheel in a rotating direction of the wheel, wherein

the motion reference input generator generates the motion reference input based on the state value, the reference input generated in the direction input portion, an output of the angular speed sensor, and an output of the measuring portion.

12. A system comprising:

a plurality of vehicles each including a direction input portion that receives a motion direction from a user and generates a reference input corresponding to the motion direction, and a sensor that measures a physical state of the user on board; and

an information processing device connected for communicating with each of the plurality of vehicles in an identifiable manner, wherein

the information processing device generates a state value with a value corresponding to a state of mind of the user based an output of the sensor, and

each vehicle executes motion by modifying a motion behavior on the basis of the motion direction based at least on the state value transmitted from the information processing device to the vehicle and the reference input generated in the direction input portion.

13. A vehicle motion producing method comprising:

measuring a physical state of a user on board a vehicle in order to estimate a state of mind of the user; and

modifying a motion behavior of the vehicle on the basis of a motion direction directed to the vehicle by the user according to a measurement result of the physical state of the user.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process that modifies a motion behavior of a vehicle on the basis of a motion direction directed to the vehicle by a user on board the vehicle according to a measurement result of a physical state of the user.