Nec Corporation

Tohoku University

Hisaya Wakayama

Masatsugu Ogawa

Nobuharu Kami

Takehiro Itou

Junpei Kamimura

Mineto Satoh

Hiroyuki Oyama

Masafumi Yano

Yuma Matsuda

Norihisa Iga

Naoki Shiota

The control device 1A mainly includes a determination meansA, an abstract state setting meansA, and a sequence generation meansA. The determination meansA determines, based on at least one of environment information relating to environment observed in a workspace of a controlled device to be controlled, state information relating to a state of the controlled device, and stored information that is stored information relating to the objective task to be executed by the controlled device, whether or not the objective task can be completed. The abstract state setting meansA sets, when determined that the objective task cannot be completed, an abstract state in the workspace based on at least one of the environment information or the stored information. The sequence generation meansA generates, based on the abstract state and the objective task, a sequence of subtasks to be executed by the controlled device.

Control device, control method and storage medium

A control deviceA mainly includes a display control meansA and an operation sequence generation meansA. The display control meansA is configured to transmit display information Srelating to a task to be executed by a robot to a display deviceA. The operation sequence generation meansA is configured, in a case that the display control meansA has received, from the display deviceA, task designation information that is input information which schematically specifies the task, to generate an operation sequence to be executed by the robot based on the task designation information Ia.

In a robot control system, a storage unit stores a plurality of programs corresponding to tasks for a robot to perform. A reception unit receives selections made by a user, which designate a task for the robot to perform and attribute information related to a program causing the robot to perform the task among the plurality of programs. An acquisition unit acquires the program for performing the task among the plurality of programs from the storage unit based on the task and the attribute information. A robot control unit controls the robot in accordance with the acquired program.

Robot control system, robot control method, and recording medium

An object is to provide a model generation apparatus capable of generating a model for implementing a more precise simulation. Firstly, an object to be reconstructed on a 3D model is extracted from 3D image information, and an object model having a highest shape conformity degree with the object is acquired from among a plurality of object models available on the 3D model, and is associated with size information and disposed-place information of the object. Next, for each of acquired object models, the extracted object model is edited so as to conform with the size information of the object. Then, the edited object model is disposed on the 3D model so that the object model satisfies a physical constraint on the 3D model and conforms with the disposed-place information.

Model generation apparatus, model generation system, model generation method

A self-propelled device includes a host device movement vector acquisition unit that is configured to acquire a host device movement vector including a movement speed of the self-propelled device and a distance information acquisition unit that is configured to acquire nearby device distance information including a distance and a direction to the self-propelled device for each of nearby devices located near the self-propelled device. The self-propelled device further includes a nearby device movement vector acquisition unit that is configured to acquire a nearby device movement vector including a movement speed and a movement direction of each of the nearby devices for each of the nearby devices and a determination unit that is configured to determine whether a group movement is possible or not for each of the nearby devices based on the nearby device distance information, the host device movement vector and the nearby device movement vector.

Self-propelled device, self-propelling method, and recording medium

An evaluation target period acquiring unit acquires an evaluation target period based on an evaluation timing included by evaluation index information that includes at least an evaluation index to be evaluated and the evaluation timing of the evaluation index. A control target extracting unit extracts a control target whose control timing is included in the evaluation target period as a first control target from control target information that includes at least the control target to be the target of a control plan in an operation and the control timing of each control target. A control planning unit calculates the control plan maximizing the evaluation index with the first control target as a variable and state information that is information necessary for calculation of a control achievement at a time of planning and the control plan, as a constraint condition.

Control planning device, control planning system, control planning method, and recording medium

Provided is a work management device for arranging a worker in consideration of a change of work efficiency. In a work management device, an index acquisition unitacquires, for each work section, a work evaluation index calculated based on work history performed by a worker. A duration time acquisition unitacquires a duration time for which a work status of the worker is the work evaluation index. A cost acquisition unitacquires a cost incurred when the worker moves between the work sections. A determination unitacquires an estimated work amount performed by the worker until the duration time is elapsed. The determination unitdetermines, based on the estimated work amount and cost, arrangement of the workers in the plurality of work sections in such a way as to increase work efficiency in a whole of a work range.

Work management device, work management method, and program storage medium

A delay tolerant network is built with the use of a plurality of information transfer devices each of which includes: a communication unit to communicate to and from another device within a communication range that is connected to the information transfer device; and a storing unit to store and keeps collected notification information, and each of which holds delay tolerant communication by exchanging the collected and kept notification information with another device when the exchange becomes possible. Each information transfer device includes a control unit to exchange environment information with another information transfer device, and to execute deriving processing an assigned range that is assigned autonomously to its own information transfer device, based on the environment information that is kept by its own information transfer device, through a planarization search processing in which a value is evened out between its own information transfer device and other information transfer devices.

Information transfer device, delay tolerant network, information transmission method, and recording medium

This vehicle guidance system carries out guidance of vehicles that are traveling on roads making up a road network, the vehicle guidance system being provided with: a flow detection unit that detects the flow of vehicles on each of the roads making up a road network, and generates flow information indicating the detection result; a storage unit that creates associations between the flow information for the roads which has been generated by the flow detection unit, and road-identifying information indicating the corresponding roads, and storing the information; a decision unit that, for each of the roads making up the road network, specifies a candidate road that is a road which vehicles flow from the road in question, acquires the flow information that is stored in association with the road-identifying information indicating the specified candidate road in question, and based on the acquired flow information, decides on a flow increase or decrease policy of vehicles on the candidate road; and a guidance unit that carries out guidance of the vehicles, in accordance with the decision by the decision unit.

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Hisaya Wakayama