Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Shizuoka University

Iwate University

Kazuhito Tanaka

Nobuyuki Matsuno

Shintaro Yoshizawa

Hidenori Yabushita

Chyon Hae Kim

Yuichi Kobayashi

Takeshi Sugimoto

Fukukazu Kawata

A localization system includes: a first data acquisition unit that acquires map data for map creation in a plurality of different time zones; a candidate creation unit that creates the maps based on the map data acquired by the first data acquisition unit, and combines the created maps to create a plurality of synthetic map candidates; a performance calculation unit that calculates a performance value of each of the synthetic map candidates created by the candidate creation unit; a candidate selection unit that selects one synthetic map candidate from among the plurality of synthetic map candidates based on the performance value of the synthetic map candidate calculated by the performance calculation unit; and a localization unit that performs localization of a mobile body based on the synthetic map candidate selected by the candidate selection unit.

Localization system, localization method, storage medium, and map generation device

An autonomous mobile robot includes a first arithmetic unit configured to calculate a course direction based on an own position, a moving-object position, and a moving-object velocity vector, the course direction being a direction in which the autonomous mobile robot should travel, a second arithmetic unit configured to input the own position, the moving-object position, the moving-object velocity vector, and the course direction into a trained model and thereby calculate an estimated position, the trained model being a model that has been trained, the estimated position being a position at which the autonomous mobile robot is estimated to arrive a predetermined time later without colliding with the moving object, a generating unit configured to generate a remaining route from the estimated position to a destination, and a movement control unit configured to control a movement to the destination based on the course direction and the remaining route.

Autonomous mobile robot and control program for autonomous mobile robot

An environment arrangement robot includes a map creation unit that divides the target space into a plurality of cell spaces and provides an evaluation value to each of the cell spaces, in which the evaluation value indicates a probability of whether or not there is an object in the corresponding cell space, and an environment change unit that changes, among the plurality of cell spaces, a specific cell space having the evaluation value within a range evaluated that the probability of whether or not there is an object in the specific cell is low in such a way that the probability that the object is present will become greater or change a surrounding cell space in such a way that the specific cell space will be excluded from the measurement by the distance sensor.

Environment arrangement robot and control program thereof

A three-dimensional object recognition apparatus according to the invention includes: an omnidirectional sensor that measures surrounding objects in all directions, and generates positional information capable of specifying positions of the objects as a result of the measurement; a three-dimensional measurement device that measures an object within a certain measurement range among the surrounding objects, and generates three-dimensional shape information capable of specifying a three-dimensional shape of the object as a result of the measurement; and a control unit that updates a shape to be recognized as the three-dimensional shape of the object based on the three-dimensional shape information generated by the three-dimensional measurement device when the object is within the measurement range of the three-dimensional measurement device. The control unit tracks the object based on the positional information generated by the omnidirectional sensor, even after the object has moved out of the measurement range of the three-dimensional measurement device.

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Kazuhito Tanaka