Automated valet parking system

1. An automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in a parking area of the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user frontend of a user, the system comprising a processor configured to:

acquire position information of the user frontend;

determine whether or not the user frontend is located within a vicinity of a preset pick-up area including the pick-up space;

instruct the autonomous driving vehicle to move to the pick-up space when, in response to receiving the pick-up request from the user, the processor determines that the user frontend is located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area; and

decline receiving the pick-up request such that the autonomous driving vehicle remains in the parking area when the processor determines that the user frontend is not located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area.

2. The automated valet parking system according to claim 1 , wherein the vicinity of the preset-pick-up area includes:

at least a part of a parking place-side elevator hall located on the same floor as the pick-up space of the parking place;

at least a part of another floor elevator hall where an elevator of the parking place-side elevator hall stops on a different floor from the parking place-side elevator hall; and

at least a part of the elevator.

3. The automated valet parking system according to claim 1 , wherein:

in a case where the user frontend is not located within the vicinity of the preset-pick-up area when the pick-up request is made, the processor is further configured to perform a pick-up reservation reception which receives a pick-up reservation instead of the pick-up request; and

in a case where the user frontend is located within the vicinity of the preset-pick-up area after the pick-up reservation is received, the processor is further configured to automatically receive the pick-up request.

4. The automated valet parking system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to notify the user frontend of a pick-up start of the autonomous driving vehicle.

5. The automated valet parking system according to claim 1 , wherein the vicinity of the preset-pick-up area includes at least a part of a moving path for the user to go to the pick-up space.

6. The automated valet parking system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to provide a notification to the user frontend that the pick-up request cannot be received when, in response to the pick-up request from the user, the processor determines that the user frontend is not located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area.

7. The automated valet parking system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether or not the user frontend is located within the vicinity of the pick-up area after a lapse of a predetermined time when, in response to the pick-up request from the user, the processor determines that the user frontend is not located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area.

8. An automated valet parking method that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in a parking area of the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user frontend of a user, comprising:

acquiring position information of the user frontend;

determining whether or not the user frontend is located within a vicinity of a preset pick-up area including the pick-up space;

instructing the autonomous driving vehicle to move to the pick-up space when, in response to receiving the pick-up request from the user, the user frontend is determined to be located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area; and

declining receiving the pick-up request such that the autonomous driving vehicle remains in the parking area when the user frontend is determined to be not located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area.

9. The automated valet parking method according to claim 8 , wherein the vicinity of the preset-pick-up area includes:

at least a part of a parking place-side elevator hall located on the same floor as the pick-up space of the parking place;

at least a part of another floor elevator hall where an elevator of the parking place-side elevator hall stops on a different floor from the parking place-side elevator hall; and

at least a part of the elevator.

10. The automated valet parking method according to claim 8 , wherein:

in a case where the user frontend is not located within the vicinity of the preset-pick-up area when the pick-up request is made, performing a pick-up reservation reception which receives a pick-up reservation instead of the pick-up request; and

in a case where the user frontend is located within the vicinity of the preset-pick-up area after the pick-up reservation is received, automatically receiving the pick-up request.

11. The automated valet parking method according to claim 10 , further comprising continuously receiving the position information from the user frontend in response to receiving a user consent.

12. The automated valet parking method according to claim 8 , further comprising notifying the user frontend of a pick-up start of the autonomous driving vehicle.