Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Itoshi Naramura

Satoshi Komuro

Minami Asatani

Satoki Matsumoto

Hiroki Iikura

Huckleberry Febbo

Nawid Jamali

Soshi Iba

Karankumar Patel

Akinobu Hayashi

Takahiro Kuroki

Sunao Hayashi

A second processing unit (), which receives a first count value N1 transmitted in a predetermined reference cycle Δt1 from the first processing unit (), has a second counter () which outputs a second count value N2 in a cycle Δt2 shorter than the reference cycle Δt1. The second count value N2 is initialized in response to reception of the first count value N1. The second processing unit () associates time determined according to the first count value N1 and the second count value N2 with generated or acquired second data (external measurement data).

Control processing device

Systems and methods for visuo-tactile object pose estimation are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving image data about an object and receiving depth data about the object. The method also includes generating a visual estimate of the object based on the image data and the depth data. The method further includes receiving tactile data about the object. The method yet further includes generating a tactile estimate of the object based on the tactile data. The method includes estimating a pose of the object based on the visual estimate and the tactile estimate.

Systems and methods for visuo-tactile object pose estimation

The present invention provides a method for identifying noise data of laser ranging devices. The measurement data of a plurality of measurement points is acquired by a plurality of laser ranging devicesA andB, which are placed such that the laser beam projection areas thereof overlap with each other. A set of measurement points common to the laser ranging devicesA andB is extracted from the measurement points. Noise data is identified based on the measurement data of each of a plurality of (two) measurement points constituting the set of common measurement points.

Method for identifying noise data of laser ranging device

A robot and its control device capable of improving recognition accuracy of a position and posture of a functional body such as a hand with respect to an object to thereby attain improved stability of the operation involving a change in position/posture of its body are provided. In a case where the magnitude of a deviation &#x394;&#x3d5; of an angle &#x3d5; made by two reference vectors Uand U, representing a manner in which a structure W extends in a camera coordinate system and in a hand coordinate system, respectively, with respect to a reference angle &#x3d5;is greater than a threshold value &#x3b5;, the probability that the state of interaction between the hand(functional body) and the structure W is divergent from a desired state is high.

Robot and control device of the robot

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Saitama, Japan

Itoshi Naramura