Patent ID: 11972686
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A parking control system configured to perform automated parking control of a vehicle, comprising:
the vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a vehicle electronic control unit (ECU);
a plurality of vehicle sensors configured to detect a traveling state of the vehicle, the traveling state including a speed of the vehicle, an acceleration of the vehicle, and a yaw rate around a vertical axis at a center of gravity of the vehicle;
a global positioning system (GPS) configured to acquire position information of the vehicle including latitude and longitude of a current position of the vehicle;
a database configured to store map data of a parking lot and a use history of a plurality of vehicles, the use history including information on previously executed traveling routes for each of the plurality of vehicles; and
a control electronic control unit (ECU) programmed to:
determine whether the reserved parking area is available when the vehicle arrives at the parking lot before an entrance time reserved for the reserved parking area, the reserved parking area being a parking area for which the entrance time has been reserved in the parking lot including a plurality of parking areas,
determine whether the temporary parking area, which is an area other than the reserved parking area, is available when it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available,
set an entrance time for a parking area for which the entrance time is set to be reservable in the parking lot and has not been reserved when a condition that other parking areas of the plurality of parking areas for which an entrance time is set to be reservable in the parking lot have been reserved and a time period from a current time to an earliest time of exit times which are reserved for the other parking areas of the plurality of parking areas is less than a predetermined time is satisfied while the parking area is set as the temporary parking area,
wherein, based upon the determination that the temporary parking area is available and the entrance time is set, the vehicle ECU is further programmed to:
create a traveling route for the vehicle based on the traveling state of the vehicle, the position information of the vehicle, the map data, and the use history of the vehicle, and
control the vehicle to move along the traveling route and to automatically park in the temporary parking area.