VEHICLE REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM

• US 20190179302A1
• Filed: 12/07/2018
• Published: 06/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: TOKURA, Takaaki, ISHIZAKI, Naoya, MAEDA, Tomoharu, SEKI, Yushi, MAJIMA, Hiroshi, TERAHATA, Katsuya
• Granted Patent: US 10,437,242 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/087 where the control system corrects or modifies a request from the driver
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0011 associated with a remote control arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0016 characterised by the operator's input device input arrangements for computing systems in general G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0027 involving a plurality of vehicles, e.g. fleet or convoy travelling fleet control of land vehicles from a control room G05D1/0297; traffic control systems for road vehicles G08G1/00; for marine craft G08G3/00; for aircraft G08G5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/08 Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time

Abstract

A vehicle remote operation system includes a controller correcting a map, which indicates a relationship between an operation amount of a reference vehicle and an operation amount of a vehicle to be operated, based on vehicle characteristic data of the vehicle to be operated, characteristic of the operation device being determined based on characteristic of an operation device of the reference vehicle, correcting an operation amount, which is indicated by the operation signal, in accordance with a characteristic of the vehicle to be operated by using the corrected map, and outputting a control signal indicating the corrected operation amount to the vehicle to be operated so that the vehicle to be operated can be operated in accordance with the corrected operation amount.

Claims

1. A vehicle remote operation system which selects a vehicle to be operated from a plurality of vehicles and inputs an operation signal indicating an operation amount of the selected vehicle by using an operation device outside the vehicles to perform a remote operation of the selected vehicle, the vehicle remote operation system comprising:

a controller configured to

correct a map, which indicates a relationship between an operation amount of a reference vehicle and an operation amount of the vehicle to be operated, based on vehicle characteristic data of the vehicle to be operated wherein characteristic of the operation device is determined based on characteristic of an operation device of the reference vehicle,

correct the operation amount, which is indicated by the operation signal, in accordance with a characteristic of the vehicle to be operated by using the corrected map, and

output a control signal indicating the corrected operation amount to the vehicle to be operated so that the vehicle to be operated can be operated in accordance with the corrected operation amount.

2. The vehicle remote operation system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to correct the operation amount in such a manner that an accelerator position of the vehicle to be operated increases as load capacity of the vehicle to be operated increases.