Patent ID: 11927958
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  E | IPC B  E  G

Claim 5:
6. An automatic traveling vehicle, according to claim 1, comprising:
a vehicle structure including a first top plate having an upper surface configured for a user to ride on or for a luggage to be placed on;
a slope; and
one or more electronic control units configured to execute automatic travel control of the automatic traveling vehicle, wherein
the one or more electronic control units are configured to execute a storage mode being one of modes of the automatic travel control when a storage execution condition for moving the automatic traveling vehicle to a storage facility is satisfied,
the storage mode includes a storage posture formation process of causing the automatic traveling vehicle to automatically travel so as to take a predetermined storage posture in the storage facility together with one or more other automatic traveling vehicles having a same configuration as the automatic traveling vehicle,
in the storage posture, the automatic traveling vehicle is in a superposition state in which the automatic traveling vehicle overlaps with the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles in a plan view, or a parallel state in which the automatic traveling vehicle is lined up with the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles while the first top plate and a second top plate are standing and facing each other so as to be parallel to or substantially parallel to a vertical direction, the second top plate being included in each of the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles,
the slope is formed so as to extend from one end of the first top plate in a vehicle front-rear direction and configured to guide one of the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles so as to ride on the first top plate, and
in the storage posture, the automatic traveling vehicle is in the superposition state in cooperation with one of the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles riding on the first top plate.