Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

The University of Tokyo

Brainlab Ag

Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft-Und Raumfahrt E.v

Christian Ott

Tetsuya Taira

Kiyoshi Matsumoto

Ulrich Hagn

Tomoyuki Takahata

Akihito Nakai

Yoshiyuki Ohmura

Alin Albu-Schäffer

Tobias Ortmaier

Nobuyasu Tomokuni

Kohei Okabe

To provide a vehicle having high operability and its control method. A vehicle includes a passenger seat on which a passenger rides on, a chassis that support the passenger seat, wheels that move the chassis, a force sensor that outputs a measurement signal according to a force exerted on a seat surface of the passenger seat, a drive unit that drives the passenger seat so as to change an angle of the seat surface of the passenger seat, and a control calculation unit that calculates a reference input used to drive the wheels and the drive unit based on a drive amount of the drive unit, a balanced position posture of the passenger seat, and the measurement signal from the force sensor.

Vehicle and its control method

In a method for controlling a robot arm, which is particularly suitable for use in medical applications, a robot arm () with a redundant number of joints is used. A torque acting in at least one joint () is sensed. By means of a control device, the torque acting in this joint () is controlled to become substantially 0.

Method for controlling a robot arm, and robot for implementing the method

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Munich, Germany

Christian Ott