Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Chiba Institute of Technology

Witz Corporation

Kengo Toda

Tomohito Mizuno

Takayuki Furuta

Mitsuhiro Ando

Noboru Nagamine

Masaharu Shimizu

Hideaki Yamato

Wataru Takayanagi

Takashi Kodachi

Seongjun Yang

Hirotoshi Ochiai

Tetsuaki Matsumoto

A single passenger carrying mobile robot, includes a single operated member that is operated by a passenger to instruct both a moving direction and a moving speed of the passenger carrying mobile robot, a moving member configured to move the passenger carrying mobile robot and a controller configured to control the moving member based on input information input to the operated member by the passenger, wherein the passenger carrying mobile robot further includes a sensor that acquires obstacle information of a surrounding of the passenger carrying mobile robot, and the controller predicts an expected course of the passenger carrying mobile robot based on the input information and determines based on the obstacle information whether or not an obstacle is located in the expected course, and changes a control of the moving member when determining that the obstacle is located.

Passenger carrying mobile robot

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Narashino, Japan

Kengo Toda