Patent ID: 11932261
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. A delivery method, wherein
an autonomously-moving-type delivery vehicle is carried in and delivered by a transportation vehicle, the delivery vehicle comprising three pairs of wheels and being configured to deliver an article, and
the delivery method makes a computer perform processes including:
acquiring information about an acceleration of the transportation vehicle from the transportation vehicle;
predicting a displacement occurring in the delivery vehicle due to the acceleration of the transportation vehicle based on the information about the acceleration;
when the predicted displacement is less than a first threshold, causing the delivery vehicle to operate on two pairs of wheels; and
when the predicted displacement is greater than or equal to the first threshold, causing the delivery vehicle to operate on three pairs of wheels.