Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nec Corporation

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Toshiba Corporation

Akihito Ogawa

Haruna Eto

Kazuo Watabe

Yutaka Kashihara

Junya Tanaka

Atsushi Sugahara

Hideichi Nakamoto

Takafumi Sonoura

Hideo Ando

Yuji Nagai

Chosaku Noda

Takashi Usui

Hideaki Okano

Kazuto Kuroda

Yutaka Yamanaka

Hideki Takahashi

Junichiro Ooga

Shuichi Ohkubo

Junji Oaki

Nobukatsu Sugiyama

You Yoshioka

Masaki Nakano

Naoki Morishita

Masatsugu Ogawa

Hiroshi Takahashi

Hideki Ogawa

Masahiro Saito

Hironori Uchikawa

Hisashi Yamada

Naomasa Nakamura

Hiroyuki Kayano

Daisuke Yamamoto

Akihiko Enamito

Toshihiro Sugaya

Akihiro Koga

Yasushi Tomizawa

Hidefumi Takamine

Sumitaka Maruyama

Kazuma Komoda

Seiji Tokura

Kazuaki Doi

Ping Jiang

Tatsunori Ide

Yoshiyuki Ishihara

Shigeru Shimonou

Chikara Tanioka

Toshiaki Iwanaga

Masato Fuma

Rie Katsuki

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Shintaro Takehara

Hideaki Ohsawa

Katsuki Hattori

Ryosuke Higo

Toshihiko Kaneshige

Hiromi Honma

Yuji Kubota

Noritsugu Shiokawa

Morio Nakatani

Toshikatsu Akiba

Tamio Kawaguchi

Shinichi Tatsuta

Yasuhito Ueda

Atsuro Oonishi

Masahiko Tanaka

Hiroharu Satoh

Nobuhisa Yoshida

Hideyuki Yamakawa

Maho Kuwahara

Masaaki Matsumaru

Minoru Akiyama

Hideaki Kojima

Hiroaki Ikeuchi

Nobuaki Kaji

Hiroharu Sato

Shuichi Ookubo

Tetsuya Masuda

Yangfang Li

Nobumasa Naito

According to an embodiment, there is provided a handling system capable of handling a plurality of objects, the handling system including: a movable arm, a holder, a sensor, and a controller. The holder is attached to the movable arm and is capable of holding the object. The sensor is capable of detecting the object. The controller controls the movable arm and the holder. The controller determines whether or not to change an arrangement of the object before the object is held, on the basis of information acquired from the sensor. In a case where it is determined to change the arrangement of the object, the controller evaluates effectiveness of an arrangement change operation for each object, and decides on an arrangement change operation on the basis of an evaluation result.

Handling system, transport system, control device, storage medium, and handling method

According to one embodiment, a handling system includes a first mobile robot, a first transfer robot, and a picking robot. The first mobile robot transports a first container out of a loading location of the first container. An article is stored in the first container. The first transfer robot transfers the first container from one of the first mobile robot or a first loading platform to the other of the first mobile robot or the first loading platform. The picking robot moves the article from the first container placed on the first loading platform to a second container placed on a second loading platform.

Handling system, instruction device, handling method, and storage medium

A handling system according to an embodiment handles/processes plural kinds of articles. The handling system includes first and second conveyance devices, and a control device. The first conveyance device transports a processing target article among the articles to a work area for a robot to handle/process the target article. The second conveyance device transports the target article to a work area for as operator to handle/process the target article. The control device determines by which of the robot or the operator the target article is processed according to process information generated based on an article handling/processing result by the robot in past. The control device transports the target article to the first conveyance device when the target article is determined to be processed by the robot and transports the target article to the second conveyance device when the target article is determined to be processed by the operator.

Handling system and control method

According to one embodiment, a handling system includes a movable arm, a holding unit, a sensor, and a controller. The holding unit is attached to the movable arm and capable of holding an object by selecting one or more of a plurality of holding methods. The sensor is capable of detecting a plurality of the objects. The controller controls the movable arm and the holding unit. The controller calculates a score based on a selected holding method for each object and each holding method on the basis of information acquired from the sensor. The controller selects a next object to be held and a holding method on the basis of the score. The controller calculates a position at which the selected object is held and a posture of the movable arm.

According to an embodiment, a work support device includes a measurement unit and an irradiation control unit. The measurement unit measures an in-passage structure of a passage inside of which a user can work. The irradiation control unit controls an irradiation unit to emit light indicative of a work region to a corrected work position obtained by correcting work position information set based on a predetermined designed in-passage structure indicative of an ideal structure in the passage by using a result of the measurement by the measurement unit.

Work support device and work support method

According to one embodiment, a handling device includes: a holding part that includes two or more supporting parts and is capable of holding an object by gripping the object with the two or more supporting parts; a calculation part configured to calculate a safety factor indicating safety of a state of the holding part holding the object; and a controller configured to cause the holding part to hold the object according to the safety factor.

Handling device and control device

According an embodiment, a work support device includes an arm unit, a brake unit, a state determination unit, and a brake control unit. The arm unit includes a grasping part configured to grasp an object, a plurality of joint parts, and a plurality of link parts actuatably coupled through each joint part. The brake unit is provided to at least one of the joint parts to restrict actuation of the arm unit. The state determination unit determines the state of the arm unit. The brake control unit controls the brake unit to restrict actuation of the arm unit in accordance with the state of the arm unit.

Work support device, work support method, computer program product, and work support system

A handling device according to an embodiment has a holder, a calculator, and a controller. The holder is capable of holding an object. The calculator calculates an estimated holding safety factor when the holder holds an object. The controller causes the holder to hold the object on the basis of the estimated holding safety factor calculated by the calculator.

Handling device, control device, and computer program product

A handling device according to an embodiment includes a manipulator, a normal grid generation unit, a hand kernel generation unit, a calculation unit, and a control unit. The normal grid generation unit converts a depth image into a point cloud, generates spatial data including an object to be grasped that is divided into a plurality of grids from the point cloud, and calculates a normal vector of the point cloud included in the grid using spherical coordinates. The hand kernel generation unit generates a hand kernel of each suction pad. The calculation unit calculates ease of grasping the object to be grasped by a plurality of suction pads based on a 3D convolution calculation using a grid including the spatial data and the hand kernel. The control unit controls a grasping operation of the manipulator based on the ease of grasping the object to be grasped by the plurality of suction pads.

Handling device and computer program product

An object manipulation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a memory and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: calculate, based on an image in which one or more objects to be grasped are contained, an evaluation value of a first behavior manner of grasping the one or more objects; generate information representing a second behavior manner based on the image and a plurality of evaluation values of the first behavior manner; and control actuation of grasping the object to be grasped in accordance with the information being generated.

Object manipulation apparatus, handling method, and program product

A handling apparatus has an arm having a joint; a holding portion attached to the arm and configured to hold an object; a sensor configured to detect a plurality of the objects; and a control apparatus configured to control the arm and the holding portion, wherein the control apparatus is configured to calculate an ease of holding the object by the holding portion as a score based on information acquired by the sensor with respect to each object and each holding method, select the object to hold and the holding method according to the score, and calculate a position for holding the selected object and an orientation of the arm.

Handling apparatus, control apparatus, and recording medium

A handling device according to an embodiment has an arm, a holder, a storage, and a controller. The arm includes at least one joint. The holder is attached to the arm and is configured to hold an object. The storage stores a function map including at least one of information about holdable positions of the holder and information about possible postures of the holder. The detector is configured to detect information about the object. The controller is configured to generate holdable candidate points on the basis of the information detected by the detector, to search the function map for a position in an environment in which the object is present, the position being associated with the generated holdable candidate points, and to determine a holding posture of the holder on the basis of the searched position. The function map associates a manipulability with each position in the environment in which the object is present. The manipulability is a parameter calculated from at least one joint angle of the holder.

Handling device, control device, and holding method

An operating system according to an embodiment includes a target surface detection unit, a position calculation unit, a direction calculation unit, and a movement control unit. The target surface detection unit detects a target surface of a target object from a depth image obtained by a depth sensor. The position calculation unit calculates a first position for the detected target surface. The direction calculation unit calculates a first direction for the detected target surface. The movement control unit controls an actuator so as to reduce a positional deviation between a second position fixed with respect to the movable member and the first position and to reduce a directional deviation between a second direction fixed with respect to the movable member and the first direction.

Operating system, control device, and computer program product

A control device includes at least two processors comprising at least a first processor and a second processor. The control device controls at least one autonomous motion mechanism on the basis of a recognition result received from a recognition device. A storage device of the control device stores upper-level software, middle-level software, and lower-level software. The upper-level software derives a feature amount representing a feature of the recognition result. The middle-level software generates a motion plan of the autonomous motion mechanism on the basis of the feature amount. The lower-level software outputs a command value for controlling the autonomous motion mechanism on the basis of the motion plan. The first processor executes at least the upper-level software, the second processor executes at least the lower-level software, and at least one processor included in the control device executes the middle-level software.

Control device, control method, and storage medium

According to an embodiment, an object handling device includes a base, a manipulator, a first camera, a sensor, a manipulator control unit and a calibration unit. The manipulator is arranged on the base, and includes a movable part and an effector that is arranged on the movable part and acts on an object. The first camera and the sensor are arranged on the manipulator. The manipulator control unit controls the manipulator so that the movable part is moved to a position corresponding to a directed value. The calibration processing unit acquires a first error in a first direction based on an image photographed by the first camera, acquire a second error in a second direction intersecting with the first direction based on a detection result obtained by the sensor, and acquire a directed calibration value with respect to the directed value based on the first error and the second error.

Object handling device and calibration method thereof

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Fujisawa, Japan

Akihito Ogawa