Collection system, cyclic collection truck control server, collection method, cyclic collection truck control method, and program

Abstract

To provide a core logistics system capable of efficiently delivering shipments from industrial parks to their final destinations.SOLUTION: A core logistics system includes: an industrial park; an industrial-park-connected core logistics facility, which is a logistics facility connected to the industrial park via a dedicated road and connected to an expressway or an expressway interchange; a core logistics facility connected to an expressway or an expressway interchange; autonomous cyclic collection trucks that circulate within the industrial park to collect shipments and return them to the industrial-park-connected core logistics facility; and autonomous core-delivery trucks that transport the collected shipments from the industrial-park-connected core logistics facility to the core logistics facility.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical Field]

[0001] The present disclosure relates to a core logistics system, a cargo collection system, a cargo collection truck control server, a cargo collection method, a cargo collection truck control method, and a program. [Background technology]

[0002] Various efforts are being made to realize Level 4 autonomous driving for large trucks (for example, Non-Patent Document 1). According to Non-Patent Document 1, the Level 4 autonomous driving section is envisioned as the section from entering an expressway interchange to exiting the interchange. If in the future Level 4 autonomous driving can be used to connect logistics facilities that are directly connected to expressway interchanges or connected by limited public roads, it is expected that the efficiency of logistics will improve dramatically. [Prior art documents] [Non-patent literature]

[0003] [Non-Patent Document 1] Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, "RoAD to the L4 Autonomous Driving Level 4 and Other Advanced Mobility Services Research, Development and Social Implementation Project," [online], Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, [Retrieved March 14, 2024], Internet〈 URL: https: / / www.road-to-the-l4.go.jp / 〉 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] However, in logistics under the realization of Level 4 autonomous driving, there was still no detailed understanding of how shipments from industrial parks should be handled and delivered efficiently.

[0005] Therefore, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a core logistics system that can efficiently deliver goods shipped from industrial parks to their final destinations. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] The core logistics system of the present disclosure includes an industrial park, a core logistics facility connected to the industrial park, a core logistics facility, a circular collection autonomous truck, and a core delivery autonomous truck.

[0007] The industrial park-connected core logistics facility is an industrial park Connect with Continued was It is a logistics facility.

[0008] The self-driving truck for collection of goods will circle the industrial park, collect the goods, and return to the core logistics facility connected to the industrial park.

[0009] The core delivery autonomous trucks transport collected shipments from core logistics facilities connected to industrial parks to the core logistics facilities. [Effects of the Invention]

[0010] According to the core logistics system of the present disclosure, shipments from industrial parks can be efficiently delivered to their final destinations. [Brief explanation of the drawings]

[0011] [Figure 1] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the functional configuration of a core logistics system according to a first embodiment. [Figure 2] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the device configuration of a collection system according to a first embodiment. [Figure 3] FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of a circulating cargo collection truck control server according to the first embodiment. [Figure 4] 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the circulating cargo collection truck control server according to the first embodiment. [Figure 5] FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of a computer. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0012] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail. Note that components having the same functions are assigned the same numbers, and redundant explanations will be omitted. [Example]

[0013] The functional configuration of the core logistics system of Example 1 will be described below with reference to Fig. 1. As shown in the figure, the core logistics system 1 of this example includes an industrial park 11, an industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a, core logistics facilities 12b, 12c, ..., medium-sized logistics facilities 13a, 13b, 13c, ... connected to the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a and the core logistics facility 12b, ..., small-sized logistics facilities 14a, 14b, 14c, ... connected to the medium-sized logistics facilities 13a, 13b, 13c, ..., an autonomous driving track for collection 15 (hereinafter also referred to as an autonomous driving track for collection 15, ADT = Autonomous Driving Track), an autonomous driving track for delivery 16 (hereinafter also referred to as an autonomous delivery ADT 16), and a regional delivery truck 17 (hereinafter also referred to as a regional delivery T17).

[0014] The logistics facilities connected hierarchically below the core logistics facility may be up to the second level as exemplified by the logistics facilities connected below 12a and 12b in the same figure, or may be up to the first level as exemplified by the logistics facilities connected below 12c in the same figure. In addition to this, the logistics facilities connected hierarchically below the core logistics facility may exist up to the third, fourth, ... level, or may be configured to have no levels and deliver packages directly from the core logistics facility to the delivery destination.

[0015] The industrial park 11 includes factories 11a, 11b, 11c, etc. The industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a is a logistics facility connected to the industrial park 11 by a dedicated road 51 and connected to the expressway 52 directly or via an interchange. The core logistics facilities 12b, 12c, etc. are also logistics facilities connected to the expressway 52 directly or via an interchange. The circulating automated collection vehicle ADT 15 travels around the industrial park 11, collects shipments, and returns to the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a. The automated core delivery vehicle ADT 16 transports collected shipments and other cargo from the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a to the core logistics facilities 12b, 12c, etc. The regional delivery vehicle T17 delivers shipments and other cargo from the industrial park 11 from the core logistics facility to its subordinate logistics facilities.

[0016] In addition, the automatic round-trip collection vehicle ADT 15 also has the function of delivering cargo bound for the industrial park that has been collected at the industrial park connecting core logistics facility 12a to each factory 11a, 11b, 11c, . . . in the industrial park 11.

[0017] According to the core logistics system 1 of this embodiment, the industrial park 11 and the industrial park connecting core logistics facility 12a are connected by a dedicated road 51, so that shipments from the industrial park 11 can be placed on the core logistics route in the shortest possible time, which is efficient. In addition, because the dedicated road 51 is not a public road, it is possible to run autonomous trucks on it, which makes it efficient because it allows for the automatic collection and delivery of shipments.

[0018] In addition, the circulating automated collection ADT 15 travels around the industrial park 11 to collect shipments and return to the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a, and the core delivery automated ADT 16 uses the expressway 52 to transport the collected shipments from the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a to the core logistics facilities 12b, 12c, ..., so that shipments from factories 11a, 11b, 11c, ... can be efficiently delivered to their final destinations. [Example]

[0019] Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 2, the device configuration of the collection system of the second embodiment, which controls collection in the core logistics system 1 of the first embodiment, will be described.

[0020] As shown in the figure, the collection system 2 of this embodiment includes factory terminals 21a, 21b, ..., 21i managed by each factory 11a, 11b, ..., 11i in the industrial park 11, and a round-trip collection truck control server 22. The factory terminals 21a, 21b, ..., 21i and the round-trip collection truck control server 22 are assumed to be communicably connected via a network. The round-trip collection truck control server 22 is assumed to be communicably connected to the round-trip collection ADT 15 via a network.

[0021] The functional configuration of the circulating collection truck control server 22 of this embodiment will be described below with reference to Fig. 3. As shown in the figure, the circulating collection truck control server 22 of this embodiment includes a collection request acquisition unit 221, a collection unit by area immediately below the core logistics facility 222, and a collection command unit 223.

[0022] The operation of each component will be described below with reference to FIG.

[0023] <Collection request acquisition unit 221> The collection request acquisition unit 221 acquires a collection request including the factory ID, delivery area of ​​the shipment, parcel ID, and collection quantity from each factory terminal 21a, 21b, ..., 21i (S221). The factory ID is an identifier for the factory. It is preferable that the delivery area of ​​the shipment is divided into delivery areas managed by each logistics facility directly under the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a and the core logistics facilities 12b, 12c, .... The parcel ID is an identifier for the parcel. The collection quantity is information on the size, weight, and number of the corresponding parcel.

[0024] <Area-specific concentration section directly under the main logistics facility 222> The aggregation unit 222 for areas directly under the core logistics facility aggregates the shipments included in the collection request by delivery area directly under the core logistics facility 12a connected to the industrial park, or by each logistics facility directly under the core logistics facilities 12b, 12c, ... (S222).

[0025] <<Logistics facilities directly below>> The logistics facilities directly below the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a are, for example, the medium-sized logistics facilities 13a, 13b, and 13c that are directly below the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a in the example of Figure 1. Therefore, the delivery areas covered by the logistics facilities directly below the industrial park-connected core logistics facility 12a are the delivery areas covered by the medium-sized logistics facilities 13a, 13b, and 13c, respectively.

[0026] In addition, the logistics facilities directly under the core logistics facility 12b, 12c, ... refer to, for example, in the example of the same figure, the medium-sized logistics facilities 13d, 13e, 13f, which are the logistics facilities directly under the core logistics facility 12b. In addition, in the example of the same figure, the core logistics facility 12c does not have any medium-sized logistics facilities under its control, and has only small-sized logistics facilities 14s, ..., 14aa under its control, and in such a case, the small-sized logistics facilities 14s, ..., 14aa are the logistics facilities directly under the core logistics facility.

[0027] <Collection Order Department 223> The collection command unit 223 transmits a collection command to the round collection ADT 15 specifying a group of consolidated shipments whose total collection volume from each factory falls within a predetermined range (S223).

[0028] Here, the upper limit of the predetermined range is typically determined based on the maximum load capacity or maximum load volume of the circular collection ADT 15. The lower limit of the predetermined range is determined taking into consideration the circular efficiency of the circular collection ADT 15. For example, the upper limit of the predetermined range may be set to maximum load capacity x 0.95, and the lower limit of the predetermined range may be set to maximum load capacity x 0.6.

[0029] The collection command preferably includes the factory ID of the factory where the ADT 15 will receive the parcel, the delivery area, the parcel ID of the parcel, the amount of the parcel to be collected, and the like.

[0030] The traveling collection ADT 15 that has received the collection command travels around the industrial complex 11 in accordance with the collection command and collects the specified cargo.

[0031] According to the collection system 2 of this embodiment, the area-specific collection unit 222 directly below the core logistics facility collects shipments according to the delivery area handled by each logistics facility directly below, and the collection command unit 223 sends a collection command specifying the collected group of shipments to the circular collection ADT 15.Therefore, simply by having the circular collection ADT 15 perform circular collection, it is possible to automatically create blocks of shipments with grouped delivery areas.

[0032] The trunk delivery ADT 16 simply transports the automatically created block of shipments to the destination trunk logistics facility. The regional delivery T 17 simply transports the block of cargo delivered to the trunk logistics facility to the corresponding logistics facility directly below. This allows shipments from the factory to be delivered efficiently to their final destinations.

[0033] <Additional Notes> The functions performed by the components described herein may be implemented in circuitry or processing circuitry, including general-purpose processors, application-specific processors, integrated circuits, ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), a CPU (a Central Processing Unit), conventional circuits, and / or combinations thereof, programmed to perform the described functions. A processor includes transistors and other circuits and is considered to be circuitry or processing circuitry. A processor may also be a programmed processor that executes programs stored in memory.

[0034] In this specification, a circuitry, unit, or means is hardware that is programmed to realize or performs the described functions, which may be any hardware disclosed herein or any hardware known to be programmed to realize or perform the described functions.

[0035] If the hardware is a processor considered to be a type of circuitry, the circuitry, means, or unit is a combination of the hardware and software used to configure the hardware and / or processor.

[0036] The various processes described above can be implemented by loading a program that executes each step of the above method into the recording unit 10020 of the computer shown in Figure 5 and operating the control unit 10010, input unit 10030, output unit 10040, etc.

[0037] The program describing the processing contents can be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, which may be, for example, a magnetic recording device, an optical disk, a magneto-optical recording medium, a semiconductor memory, or any other suitable recording medium.

[0038] The program may be distributed, for example, by selling, transferring, lending, etc. a portable recording medium such as a DVD or CD-ROM on which the program is recorded. Furthermore, the program may be stored in a storage device of a server computer, and then transferred from the server computer to another computer via a network, thereby distributing the program.

[0039] A computer that executes such a program may first temporarily store the program recorded on a portable recording medium or transferred from a server computer in its own storage device. Then, when executing a process, the computer reads the program stored on its own recording medium and executes the process in accordance with the read program. Alternatively, the computer may read the program directly from a portable recording medium and execute the process in accordance with the program. Furthermore, the computer may execute the process in accordance with the program each time a program is transferred from a server computer to the computer. The server computer may not transfer the program to the computer, but may instead execute the process through a so-called ASP (Application Service Provider) service, which realizes the processing function by issuing an execution instruction and obtaining the results. Furthermore, the server computer may execute the process on a terminal using a so-called SaaS (Software as a Service) service, which allows users to use part of the server computer along with the program. In this embodiment, the program includes information used for computer processing that is equivalent to a program (such as data that is not a direct instruction to the computer but has properties that define computer processing).

[0040] Furthermore, in this embodiment, the device is configured by executing a predetermined program on a computer, but at least a part of the processing contents may be realized by hardware.

Claims

1. Industrial parks and an industrial park-connected core logistics facility, which is a logistics facility connected to the industrial park by a dedicated road and connected to a highway or a highway interchange; Core logistics facilities are logistics facilities connected to expressways or expressway interchanges, An automated truck that travels around the industrial park to collect shipments and returns to the industrial park-connected core logistics facility; and a core delivery automatic driving truck that transports the collected shipments from the industrial park connecting core logistics facility to the core logistics facility. Core logistics system.

2. The core logistics system according to claim 1, The self-driving truck for collecting cargo is: It has the function of delivering cargo bound for the industrial park that has been collected at the core logistics facility connected to the industrial park to each factory in the industrial park. Core logistics system.

3. A cargo collection system for controlling cargo collection in the core logistics system of claim 1, The industrial park includes a factory terminal managed by each factory and a circulating collection truck control server, The circulating collection truck control server a collection request acquisition unit that acquires a collection request including a factory ID, a delivery area of ​​a shipment, a parcel ID, and a collection amount from the factory terminal; a central logistics facility area aggregation unit that aggregates the shipments included in the collection request by delivery area directly under the central logistics facility connected to the industrial park or by delivery area assigned to each logistics facility directly under the central logistics facility; A collection command unit transmits a collection command to the automatic driving truck for collecting goods, the collection command specifying a group of consolidated goods whose total collection amount is within a predetermined range. Collection system.

4. A cargo collection truck control server for controlling cargo collection in the core logistics system of claim 1, a collection request acquisition unit that acquires a collection request including a factory ID, a delivery area of ​​a shipment, a parcel ID, and a collection amount from a factory terminal managed by each factory in the industrial park; a central logistics facility area aggregation unit that aggregates the shipments included in the collection request by delivery area directly under the central logistics facility connected to the industrial park or by delivery area assigned to each logistics facility directly under the central logistics facility; A collection command unit transmits a collection command to the automatic driving truck for collecting goods, the collection command specifying a group of consolidated goods whose total collection amount is within a predetermined range. Circulating collection truck control server.

5. A method for controlling collection in a core logistics system including an industrial park, an industrial park-connected core logistics facility which is a logistics facility connected to the industrial park by a dedicated road and connected to an expressway or a highway interchange, a core logistics facility which is a logistics facility connected to the expressway or a highway interchange, an automated collection truck which travels around the industrial park to collect shipments and returns to the industrial park-connected core logistics facility, and an automated delivery truck which transports the collected shipments from the industrial park-connected core logistics facility to the core logistics facility, The cargo collection system includes a factory terminal managed by each factory in the industrial park and a circulating cargo collection truck control server, The circulating collection truck control server acquiring a collection request including a factory ID, a delivery area of ​​the shipment, a parcel ID, and a collection amount from the factory terminal; aggregating the shipments included in the collection request for each delivery area directly under the core logistics facility connected to the industrial park or each logistics facility directly under the core logistics facility; A step of transmitting a collection command specifying a group of consolidated shipments whose total collection amount is within a predetermined range to the circulating automatic collection truck is performed. Collection method.

6. A method for controlling collection of cargo in a core logistics system including an industrial park, an industrial park-connected core logistics facility which is a logistics facility connected to the industrial park by a dedicated road and connected to a highway or a highway interchange, a core logistics facility which is a logistics facility connected to the highway or a highway interchange, an automated collection truck which travels around the industrial park to collect shipments and returns to the industrial park-connected core logistics facility, and an automated delivery truck which transports the collected shipments from the industrial park-connected core logistics facility to the core logistics facility, the method being executed by a control server for controlling collection of cargo, A step of acquiring a collection request including a factory ID, a delivery area of ​​the shipment, a parcel ID, and a collection amount from a factory terminal managed by each factory in the industrial park; aggregating the shipments included in the collection request for each delivery area directly under the core logistics facility connected to the industrial park or each logistics facility directly under the core logistics facility; transmitting a collection command to the automatic driving truck for collecting goods, the automatic driving truck for collecting goods, specifying a group of consolidated shipments whose total collection amount is within a predetermined range. A method for controlling a round-trip pickup truck.

7. A program that causes a computer to function as the circulating collection truck control server according to claim 4.

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