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

Claim 0:
1. An automatic traveling vehicle, 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, the vehicle structure includes a frame configured to support the first top plate, the frame is formed such that one end of the frame in a vehicle front-rear direction opens in a plan view and a width of the frame in a vehicle left-right direction is narrower toward a side of a remaining end of the frame in the vehicle front-rear direction; 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,
in the storage posture formation process, the one or more electronic control units are configured to cause the automatic traveling vehicle to automatically travel such that the frame of the automatic traveling vehicle is inserted into an opening of a frame of one of the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles, and
in the storage posture, the automatic traveling vehicle is in the superposition state.