Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Mitsubishi Logisnext Co. Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd.

Kenji Takao

Noritaka Yanai

Toshihiko Niinomi

Takayuki Kono

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Katsumasa Kitajima

Masahiro Yamada

Katsuaki Morita

Yutaka Miyajima

Yusuke Kinouchi

Keita Hirayama

Yohei Chishiki

Takashi Sasaki

Minoru Matsuo

Masaya Takahashi

Daisuke Goto

Ryoji Araki

Kenta Nakao

Katsumi Aoyagi

Kazuyuki Wakasugi

Kazushige Takaki

Yasuo Fujishima

Takeshi Korenaga

Noriyuki Hasegawa

Takao Maruyama

Hirofumi Shimizu

Kiichi Sugimoto

Tomohiro Ichikawa

Takumi Fujita

Satoshi Iio

Yusuke Yamashina

Toshihisa Sanbommatsu

Takahiro Ishizaki

Hiroyasu Ishigaki

Kyotaro Onishi

Atsuyoshi Saimen

Kenichiro Yahiro

Hiroki Kawashima

Yoshitatsu Mori

Rutger Ljungqvist

Hans Wachtmeister

Haekan Palm

Yoshiyuki Hama

Yimin Li

An information processing method includes acquiring information on a first route being a travel route of a first mobile body during a first time period and information on a second route being a travel route of a second mobile body during a second time period after the first time period, and setting a route for standby position as a travel route of the first mobile body during a third time period after the first time period and before the second time period when a target position of the first route is located on the second route. The route for standby position is a route from the target position to a standby position. The standby position is a position not overlapping with the second route.

Information processing method, information processing device, and program

An information processing method includes a step of acquiring movement information on a first mobile body including information on a first position through which the first mobile body is scheduled to pass in a first time slot and information on a travel direction of the first mobile body and a step of setting, as an exclusive area in the first time slot, an area between the first position and a second position on a travel direction side of the first mobile body from the first position based on the movement information on the first mobile body. The exclusive area is set in a manner that the second mobile body other than the first mobile body is not permitted to move within the exclusive area in the travel direction different from the travel direction of the first mobile body in the first time slot, and the second mobile body is permitted to move within the exclusive area in the same travel direction as the first mobile body in the first time slot.

A control method is for a mobile object that automatically moves in situation where signs each indicating a position are provided on a ceiling of a lateral area on a first direction side with respect to a parking area where a transportation vehicle is parked, along a second direction that intersects the first direction and that is along the parking area. The method includes acquiring positional information of the mobile object by causing the mobile object to detect at least one of the signs; causing the mobile object to move within the lateral area toward the second direction based on the positional information of the mobile object; and causing the mobile object to move toward the parking area by causing the mobile object to turn and move toward an opposite side to the first direction after causing the mobile object to move within the lateral area toward the second direction.

Control method for mobile object, mobile object, movement control system, and computer-readable storage medium

A control method for a mobile object that automatically moves includes: causing a sensor disposed on the mobile object to detect a target object multiple times to acquire detection results of respective detection processes performed by the sensor as a point group; estimating a position and an attitude of the target object for each detection process based on the point group; calculating reliability of accuracy in an estimation result of the position and the attitude of the target object for each detection process; selecting, from among estimation results of the respective detection processes, an estimation result used for setting an approach path to a target position at which a predetermined position and attitude with respect to the target object are achieved based on the reliability for each detection process; setting the approach path based on the selected estimation result; and causing the mobile object to move along the approach path.

Control method for mobile object, mobile object, and computer-readable storage medium

A control method for a mobile object automatically moving includes: causing the mobile object to move along a first path; causing a sensor of the mobile object to detect a position and an attitude of a target object while the mobile object is moving along the first path; setting a second path up to a target position at which predetermined position and attitude with respect to the target object are achieved based on the position and the attitude of the target object; switching the first path to the second path to move the mobile object along the second path; executing optimization calculation based on an evaluation function, to set a third path; and switching the second path to the third path to move the mobile object along the third path.

A control device is for a mobile machine that is provided in a mobile machine configured to automatically move. The control device includes a target object information acquisition unit that acquires a detection result of a direction of a target object; a region setting unit that sets a prohibited region through which a trajectory of the mobile machine is prohibited from passing, from the direction of the target object; a trajectory setting unit that sets a trajectory from the mobile machine to a target position where the mobile machine is in a predetermined position and direction with respect to the target object such that the trajectory does not pass through the prohibited region; and a movement control unit that moves the mobile machine based on the trajectory.

Control device, mobile body, movement control system, control method, and program

A method of controlling a movable body includes: a step of causing a sensor provided on the movable body to detect an obstacle; a step of determining the position and attitude of a front surface, of the obstacle, opposite to the travel direction of the movable body based on the detection result of the obstacle; a step of generating an avoidance path that avoids the obstacle while heading toward a side of a first direction intersecting the travel direction based on the position and attitude of the front surface; a step of causing the movable body to move along the avoidance path; a step of detecting the obstacle while the movable body is moving along the avoidance path; a step of determining the position and attitude of the side surface of the obstacle on the side of the first direction based on the detection result obtained during movement along the avoidance path; and a step of updating the avoidance path so as to return to a side of a second direction opposite to the first direction while avoiding the obstacle based on the position and attitude of the side surface.

Method of controlling movable body, movable body and program

An arithmetic device is an arithmetic device configured to output information to a moving object that automatically moves. The arithmetic device includes: a target object information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a sensor provided in a place other than to the moving object, a detection result of position information of a target object, the position information being information related to position and orientation of the target object; a route setting unit configured to set, based on the position information of the target object, a route to a target position at which predetermined position and orientation relative to the target object are reached; and an information output unit configured to output information of the route to the moving object.

Arithmetic device, movement control system, control device, moving object, calculation method, and computer-readable storage medium

Pallet detection device that acquires point cloud data indicating a point cloud measured by a two-dimensional distance measurement device on a depth map; detects a straight line corresponding to a front surface of a pallet based on the point cloud in a region presumed to include the front surface of the pallet in the point cloud data; detects a line segment indicating the front surface of the pallet based on the straight line; acquires position and orientation of the pallet based on the line segment. Acquires one or more straight line candidates and assigns for each of the one or more straight line candidates a score to the point cloud and selects the straight line from the one or more straight line candidates based on a score accumulated value obtained by accumulating the score for the point cloud in the region presumed to include the front surface of the pallet.

Pallet detection device, forklift, pallet detection method, and program

A movable body that moves automatically includes a plurality of sensors configured to detect an obstacle in a periphery of the movable body, a selection information acquisition unit configured to acquire selection information indicating a sensor, of the plurality of sensors, to be used for detection of the obstacle, the sensor being set based on a relationship between a reference position of the obstacle and a position of the movable body, and a detection control unit configured to cause the sensor indicated by the selection information to detect the obstacle, and identify a position of the obstacle from a detection result of the obstacle.

Movable body, movement control system, method for controlling movable body, and program

In the present invention, a resource management device receives transmission of a reservation request for a block section to be reserved from among a plurality of block sections included in a track traveled by a vehicle on the basis of track information which indicates the plurality of block sections and the connection relationships of the block sections. In a case where the block section to be reserved, as indicated by the reservation request, has not already been reserved by a vehicle other than the vehicle that transmitted the reservation request at the point in time when such reservation request was received, the following is recorded in a management table: that the block section to be reserved as indicated by the reservation request and a connection boundary between that block section and another block section are objects reserved for the vehicle that transmitted the reservation request.

Vehicle control system, resource management device, vehicle control method, and program

A control device includes a route acquisition unit configured to acquire routes of a movable body for moving target objects to or from a target position at which the target objects are to be picked up or dropped, a reference position/posture acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a position at which the movable body picks up or drops a first target object of the target objects at the target position, and an information output unit configured to output information acquired by the route acquisition unit to the movable body. The route acquisition unit is configured to acquire the routes of the movable body for moving second and subsequent target objects of the target objects, based on the information acquired by the reference position/posture acquisition unit.

Control device, movement control system, control method, and program

This positional error prediction device () is provided with: a satellite position acquisition unit () which acquires a receivable position of a satellite on a target date at a target time and a target point at which a positional error prediction is performed; a relative relationship value acquisition unit () which acquires a value of the relative relationship between the position of the satellite and an observation start position of the satellite at the target point; and an error prediction unit () which predicts, on the basis of the relative relationship value and a positional error prediction model generated in advance, a positional error on the target date at the target time and the target point.

Positional error prediction device, prediction model generation device, positional error prediction method, prediction model generation method, and program

This validation processing device is provided with: a processing unit that performs model checking on a model to be checked; and a selection unit that selects, on the basis of the result of the model checking, one element from among elements that have undergone state change in a process leading to an unsafe event. The processing unit further performs model checking again on the model to be checked excluding the one element.

Validation processing device, validation processing method, and program

An edge device is configured to automatically establish a connection with a remote monitoring device when an abnormality has occurred in a plant. The edge device includes a controller configured to detect the abnormality based on data regarding an observation target device, and a connection establishment unit configured to establish a connection with the remote monitoring device such that the remote monitoring device is able to remotely access the edge device when the controller has detected the abnormality and determined that the abnormality matches a predetermined condition, wherein the remote access is a connection for remotely checking a state of the observation target device, or for enabling a remote manipulation of the observation target device.

Edge device, connection establishment system, connection establishment method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

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Kenji Takao