Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Duyhinh Nguyen

Takeshi Ando

Hiroyuki Sasai

Hiroyuki Uematsu

Noriaki Imaoka

Mizuho Sakakibara

Shohei Nakashioya

Tsukasa Hojo

Keisuke Nakamura

Katsuhiko Nishizawa

The present invention provides a vehicle with which it is possible to realize stable platoon travel. This vehicle () travels autonomously by following a leading vehicle while maintaining a prescribed distance between vehicles, wherein the vehicle () has: a detection unit () that detects moving bodies present around the vehicle; and a control unit () that determines an entering moving body, among the moving bodies detected by the detection unit (), that may enter an area between the vehicle and the leading vehicle, and causes the vehicle to accelerate or decelerate on the basis of the distance between the entering moving body and the area.

Vehicle with inter-vehicular distance acceleration control

A mobile robot includes at least two first reflection parts, each of the at least two first reflection parts having a first reflection surface on a side surface thereof, the first reflection surface being configured to reflect electromagnetic waves. For each of the at least two first reflection parts: a cross-sectional shape obtained by being cut in a first direction perpendicular to a reference axis is symmetrical and continuous with respect to points passing through the reference axis, the first direction being parallel to a top surface of the first reflection part or a bottom surface of the first reflection part; and a reflection surface angle defined by the points passing through the reference axis and both ends of the first reflection surface is 90 degrees or more to 360 degrees or less when the first reflection part is viewed along the reference axis.

Mobile robot

Based on schedule information indicating one or more events to be occurred and information relating to a location associated with each of the one or more events, a navigation method estimates an area and time at which congestion may be likely to occur in the vicinity of the location. Furthermore, the navigation method presents to a moving body information which is based on the estimated result of the area and the time, and which is related to a movement plan when moving using the moving body.

Navigation method, navigation system, moving body, and navigation program

Provided is a moving vehicle which enables a user to easily recognize that the moving vehicle is stopped due to the user's own clothing or the like being determined as an object, thereby enabling the user to cancel the stopped state and return to a moving state. A moving vehicle on which a person rides and which stops moving if the distance to an object is equal to or less than a first predetermined value, said moving vehicle comprising: a sensor () for detecting the distance; a determiner () for determining, if the distance is equal to or less than a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value, a state in which the field of view of the sensor () is blocked due to the clothing covering the sensor (); and a notifier () that, if said state is determined by the determiner (), issues a notification.

Moving vehicle

A mobile body configured so that multiple mobile robots can travel along the same track in formation even when an obstacle is present on the travel path of the mobile robots, and a method of controlling the mobile body. This mobile body () includes: a map storage () that stores travel path information; and an intelligence processor () that recognizes whether or not an object in the periphery is a mobile body to be followed (). When the object is the mobile body to be followed () and the mobile body to be followed () does not exist on a travel path () indicated by the travel path information, the intelligence processor () sets a position on the travel path () in which the mobile body to be followed () is projected, as a temporary destination ().

Mobile body and method of controlling mobile body

A robot and a method for controlling the robot are provided, each of which prevents the robot from hitting an obstacle when autonomous movement of the robot is controlled using an OSS. The method for controlling a robot including a plurality of rangefinder sensors, the robot being configured to autonomously move based on a map created using one or more measurement data portions of the plurality of rangefinder sensors. The method includes: deleting some of the one or more measurement data portions of the plurality of rangefinder sensors; integrating the one or more measurement data portions remaining after the deleting into an integrated measurement data portion; and determining the integrated measurement data portion to be a measurement data portion of one or more virtual rangefinder sensors which are fewer in number than the number of the plurality of rangefinder sensors.

Robot and method for controlling the same

A mobile robot includes a mobile robot body, a drawing unit provided at the mobile robot body and including a marker configured to draw a travel locus of the mobile robot on a travel plane, and a detector provided at the mobile robot body and configured to detect the travel locus drawn by the drawing unit. The mobile robot travels along the travel locus detected by the detector.

Mobile robot and method of tracking mobile robot

In mobile robot that runs from first flat surface which is a magnetic body to second flat surface which is a magnetic body and intersects the first flat surface, the mobile robot includes a pair of driving wheels which is rotatably supported to robot body and includes permanent magnets on outer circumferential surfaces thereof; driving mechanism which drives the pair of driving wheels to be independently rotated; rear wheel which is rotatably supported to the robot body and includes permanent magnets on an outer circumferential surface thereof; distance sensor which acquires a distance to the second flat surface; and pressing out mechanisms which include pressing out members which are movable between contact position at which the pressing out member can be in contact with the first flat surface and retracted position at which the pressing out member is retracted from the first flat surface. The pressing out member is moved from the retracted position to the contact position to be in contact with the first flat surface by the pressing out mechanism, the driving wheels is separated from the first flat surface, and the driving wheels move from the first flat surface to the second flat surface, when the distance sensor detects that the driving wheels are in contact with the second flat surface.

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Osaka, Japan

Duyhinh Nguyen