TRAVEL MANAGEMENT DEVICE, TRAVEL MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: HAYASHI YUSUKE, KAWACHI TAICHI, HOTTA DAICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 07.03.2024
• Subjects: PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

To provide a technique capable of appropriately coping with delay occurring in remote support of a vehicle by reducing influence of the delay occurring between a terminal on a vehicle side and the terminal on a remote supporter side.SOLUTION: A travel management device manages travel of a vehicle. The travel management device is configured to execute the steps of: sequentially acquiring sensor information from a recognition sensor mounted on the vehicle; sequentially generating prediction information indicating a position of a target present around the vehicle at a future time point based on the sequentially acquired sensor information; transmitting a remote support request to a remote supporter; receiving remote support from the remote supporter in response to the remote support request; and causing the vehicle to autonomously travel in accordance with the remote support in response to confirmation that a position of the target obtained from the sensor information acquired at a determination time point after a time point at which the remote support is received and a position of the target obtained from the prediction information in which the determination time point is the future time point match each other.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9 【課題】車両側の端末と遠隔支援者側の端末との間で生じる遅延の影響を少なくし、車両の遠隔支援の際に生じる遅延に対して適切に対応することができる技術を提供すること。【解決手段】走行管理装置は、車両の走行を管理する。走行管理装置は、車両に搭載された認識センサからセンサ情報を順次取得することと、順次取得したセンサ情報に基づいて、車両の周囲に存在する物標の将来時点での位置を表す予測情報を順次生成することと、遠隔支援者に遠隔支援要求を送信することと、遠隔支援要求に応じた遠隔支援者からの遠隔支援を受信することと、遠隔支援を受信した時点以降の判定時点に取得されるセンサ情報から得られる物標の位置と、判定時点を上記将来時点とする予測情報から得られる物標の位置が一致していることの確認を受けて、遠隔支援に従って車両を自律走行させることと、を実行するように構成される。【選択図】図９