Patent ID: 11892304
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 8:
9. A vehicle guidance device in a parking lot, the vehicle guidance device comprising:
a controller that determines, outside a vehicle, a travel route from a starting position to a target position in the parking lot, and transmits information on at least a section in the travel route to the vehicle through a communication network; and
a monitor that monitors the vehicle for a deviation from the travel route during autonomous travel of the vehicle in the section, the vehicle being monitored using a monitoring system outside the vehicle,
wherein when the deviation is detected by the monitor, the controller determines a correction route for correcting the deviation, and transmits the correction route to the vehicle through the communication network,
when the controller determines that the vehicle cannot travel along the correction route, the controller determines an evacuation route with a current position of the vehicle set to the starting position and a predetermined location set to a second target position, and transmits the evacuation route to the vehicle through the communication network to cause the vehicle to travel along the evacuation route, and
the evacuation route includes the second target position being different than the target position of the travel route.