Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

M&g Eco-battery Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Kawano

Isao Matsumoto

Munehisa Ikoma

Shinji Ohuchi

Yasushi Shiraishi

Etsuo Yamada

Masayuki Yamamoto

Yuko Matsui

Shigeo Homma

Shuichiro Yamaguchi

Osamu Takahashi

Munenori Fujimura

Kohji Yuasa

Nobuyuki Yanagihara

Masakazu Ikeyama

Takayuki Hayashi

Takumi Naruse

Hiromi Tokunaga

Shinji Imagawa

Hitoshi Uchi

Kazutaka Iwasaki

Tatsuya Hirahara

Kyosuke Taka

Haruo Yamamoto

Yoshio Moriwaki

Masatsugu Nakamura

Takayuki Takeuchi

Kohei Suzuki

Aiichiro Inoue

Tsutomu Iwaki

Tsuyoshi Miyata

Takashi Kitagawa

Satoru Ozaki

Yoshihiko Ino

Yasuhiko Horio

Mihoko Tanimura

Yoshinori Hashimoto

Masataro Fukuda

Masaaki Ohtsuki

Fumihiko Ooka

Takeo Asakawa

Mitsuo Shibusawa

Kengo Shiiba

Atsushi Arai

Takashi Kikutani

Masanori Matsuda

Akira Tokumitsu

Tsutomu Yamakami

Yasuko Ito

Satoshi Takanashi

Masato Tsuji

Rikiya Mizuta

Akira Ota

Toshihiro Yamauchi

Masahiro Okuyama

Hideki Otsuka

Muneyuki Matsumoto

Keisuke Aoki

Yoshimitsu Hiroshima

Hiroshi Narusawa

Yuzou Kohno

Hidekazu Nasu

An action control device controls movement of a plurality of control subjects. In particular, the present technology relates to a cooperative control of robots. The cooperative control comprises determining an action plan for each of a plurality of robots for respective movements. Given the action plan, the present case enables movements of the respective robots cooperatively from a state of rank formation in starting positions and cause the respective robots to form a rank in target position. In particular, the action plan comprises a set of operations where a plurality of robots extracted by deconstruction of parts of intermediate positions of robots are moved simultaneously to the locations to which the robots are to be added during construction of a subsequent intermediate positions of robots. The set of operations with simultaneous movements enables an increase in the speed of transformation of ranks formed by the plurality of robots.

Action control apparatus, method and program for the same

Provided is a control technique that enables a time required for platoon control operations to be shortened. A mobile robot includes, for example, a position distance calculation instruction transmission unit, a position distance calculation instruction transfer unit, a reply position distance calculation instruction transmission unit, a direction storage unit, a reply position distance calculation instruction transfer unit, an operation clock time announcement instruction transmission unit, an operation clock time announcement instruction transfer unit, a first moving unit, a movement start instruction transmission unit, a movement start instruction transfer unit, a second moving unit, a third moving unit, a determination unit, a fourth moving unit, a fifth moving unit, a waiting instruction transmission unit, and a waiting instruction transfer unit

Moving robot, moving robot control method and program therefor

A mobile robot includes a position distance calculation command transmission unit, a position distance calculation command transfer unit, a reply position distance calculation command transmission unit, a direction storage unit, a reply position distance calculation command transfer unit, a first head robot unit determination command transmission unit, a robot unit determination unit, a first movement unit, a second movement unit, a next head robot unit selection command transmission unitand a second head robot unit determination command transmission unit, for example.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling an array of multiple autonomous robots. In particular, the methods addresses an issue of controlling the multiple autonomous robots with to-be-controlled object units (units) when there is a non-contact portion in a common location between a set of initial locations of the units and a set of target locations of the units. The methods include: selecting a head to-be-controlled object unit (head object) based on a object unit at a location inside a set of locations and adjacent to a destination location, selecting a tail to-be-controlled object unit (tail object) based on a unit at a location outside the set and inside the initial location, moving a series of units from the head unit to the tail unit so as to follow operation of the head unit, and updating the set based on the destination location.

Control apparatus, method and program

Provided is a control technique for achieving formation control which is applicable even when there is a non-connection location in a common portion between a set of initial positions of robot units and a set of target positions of the robot units. Each of a plurality of robots constituting a mobile robot includes a position distance calculation command transmission unit, a position distance calculation command transfer unit, a return position distance calculation command transmission unit, a direction storage unit, a return position distance calculation command transfer unit, a first head robot determination command transmission unit, a void generation order determination unit, a void generation command transfer unit, a push command transmission unit, a return push command transmission unit, a return push command transfer unit, a void operation command transmission unit, a first movement unit, a void operation command transfer unit, a movement command transmission unit, a return movement command transmission unit, a second movement unit, a pull command transmission unit, a return pull command transmission unit, a third movement unit, a control unit, a set updating unit, and a second head robot determination command transmission unit

A first storage control apparatus unit has a first logical volume. A second storage control apparatus unit has a second logical volume, which is a virtual logical volume and is mapped to the first logical volume, and a third logical volume that is associated with the first logical volume. The second storage control apparatus unit receives, from a host, an I/O command which has information including, as information denoting an I/O-destination area, an ID of the second logical volume and an address of an area of the second logical volume. The second storage control apparatus unit identifies a logical volume having an area that serves as an entity of the I/O-destination area, and a storage control apparatus unit that has this logical volume.

Storage control apparatus unit and storage system comprising multiple storage control apparatus units

A storage system has multiple disk controller (DKC) units that are coupled to one another in accordance with a coupling mode that satisfies the following (a1) through (a3): (a1)

Storage control apparatus and storage system comprising multiple storage control apparatuses

Provided is an image forming apparatus in which one of developing units that respectively contain visible toners of black, yellow, magenta, and cyan other than the developing unit that contains the visible toner of black is replaced by a developing unit that contains a transparent fluorescent toner. Consequently, a document image can be expressed by the visible toner of black and a designated color which falls within a color reproduction range determined by two of the visible toners of yellow, magenta, and cyan, and an additional pattern which is an additional information image for preventing falsification and forgery can be printed on the document image with the use of the transparent fluorescent toner.

Image forming apparatus

A highly reliable electronic circuit board for suppressing propagation of noise and a power line communication apparatus using it are provided. An electronic circuit board of the invention is connected to a different electronic circuit board and including a first board having a first face and a second face opposed to the first face and a second board having a third face and a fourth face opposed to the third face. The electronic circuit board includes a first circuit mounted on one end of the first face for performing analog signal processing; a second circuit mounted on another end of the first face for performing digital signal processing; a junction layer provided between the second face and the third face for jointing the first board and the second board; a built-in electronic component built into the junction layer; a connection part mounted on the fourth face and to be connected to the different electronic circuit board; and a first conducting path for electrically connecting the second circuit and the connection part, wherein the connection part is mounted at a position overlapping projection projecting the second circuit onto the fourth face from a vertical direction relative to the first face.

Electronic circuit board and power line communication apparatus using it

A pool, which is configured by multiple actual areas, is formed on the basis of two or more storage devices. A second storage control apparatus (DKC) determines, for each storage device, an unused capacity to be given to a first DKC with respect to each first DKC based on an unused capacity of each storage device and a request value of each storage device for each first DKC, and gives, for each first DKC, the unused capacity for each storage device determined with respect to the first DKC, to this first DKC. The request value of the storage device is based on a performance value, which is a value related to the performance of this storage device. The total capacity of multiple actual areas allocated to the virtual volumes by the first DKC is equal to or less than the unused capacity given with respect to each storage device.

Storage system comprising multiple storage control apparatus

A storage system has multiple disk controller (DKC) units that are coupled to one another in accordance with a coupling mode that satisfies the following (a1) through (a3):

A circuit module is mounted with an IC that modulates and demodulates a multicarrier signal. The circuit module has a laminated board, which is provided internally with a plurality of conductive layers laminated having insulating layers in between, and an IC, which is provided with a plurality of ground terminals to be grounded. Of the plurality of conductive layers, a conductive layer provided proximate to the IC configures a ground layer electrically connected to the plurality of ground terminals.

Circuit module and power line communication apparatus

A screw characterized by having a screw body having a male screw portion to be screw fastened into a corresponding screw hole and a top hat portion that is integrally formed to be conjoined to one end of the male screw portion and having a top end surface formed thereon; a torque transmission means that is used for transmitting to the top hat portion the running torque required for screw fastening the male screw portion into the screw hole and having a base end surface formed to correspond to the form of the top end surface of the top hat portion; and an adhesive solidification layer that bonds the top end surface of the top hat portion and the base end surface of the torque transmission means to mechanically couple the top hat portion and the torque transmission means.

Screw

The connection structure between unit cells connects a plurality of batteries Band Bin series with bottomed cylindrical battery casesandwhich function as electrode terminals on one side, sealing plateswhich close the opening portions of the battery casesandwhich function as electrode terminals on another side, and the first ringwith a flange is conductively connected at a bottom portion of a battery caseof one battery B, the second ringwith a flange is conductively connected at an upper portion of the sealing plateof another battery B, and the first ringand the second ringare fitted.

Connection structure between unit cells

To provide a screw fastening device that, when performing a screw tightening operation, can substantially reduce the running torque directly applied by external forceto a screw driving device. A characteristic constitution is adopted that is equips a screw driving device &#x3b1;with a device bodythat stacks a plurality of piezoelectric elementsandthat generate predetermined ultrasonic oscillations with the application of a predetermined AC voltage and excites mechanical oscillations in a predetermined direction on an oscillating end surfacebased on the ultrasonic oscillations; and a male distal end portionthat is correspondingly formed to be capable of fitting in a female recessformed in a screw &#x3b2;and integrally fixed to the device bodyon the oscillating end surfaceof the device bodyto impart running torque, which is directly applied to the screw driving device &#x3b1;by external force, and transmit the mechanical oscillations in the predetermined direction that the device bodyexcites to the screw &#x3b2;, with which contact is made by fitting in the female recess

Screw driving device and screw

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Kawano