Tohoku University

Olympus Corporation

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Nipo International Rescue System Institute

Npo International Rescue System Institute

Kenjiro Tadakuma

Satoshi Tadokoro

Masahiro Watanabe

Masashi Konyo

Kazunori Ohno

Daiki Fujikura

Yoshito Okada

Eiichi Kobayashi

Yasuo Hirata

Yu Kaneda

Masahiro Fujita

Ryou Toshima

Toshi Takamori

Eri Takane

Tomonari Yamamoto

A passive guidance mechanism enables smooth guiding to a desired position; and a flying object landing system enables smooth guiding to and landing at a desired position. A pair of guide rails are arranged side by side with a space therebetween, and are provided so that the space increases toward one set of tips of the guide rails. One guide rail is supported so as to be rotatable about a first shaft extending in a direction perpendicular to a plane including the guide rails, at or near the tip of the guide rail. The other guide rail is supported so as to be rotatable about a second shaft extending in a direction perpendicular to the plane including the guide rails, at or near the tip of the guide rail.

Passive guidance mechanism and flying object landing system

An aerial vehicle takeoff and landing system, an aerial vehicle takeoff and landing apparatus, and an aerial vehicle capable of reducing the influence of the ground effect and capable of taking off and landing smoothly even in a comparatively small and limited space. A pair of rails are arranged side by side with a gap therebetween, and are arranged with a space in an extension direction on at least an under side and one end side. An aerial vehicle has a suspension portion provided at an upper portion thereof so as to be inserted between the rails from the one end side. With the suspension portion is inserted between the rails, the aerial vehicle can be suspended at a predetermined landing position of the rails, and the aerial vehicle suspended at the landing position can take off.

Aerial vehicle takeoff and landing system, aerial vehicle takeoff and landing apparatus, and aerial vehicle

Suction gripperincludes fixing memberincluding hole part, grasping partincluding a plurality of flexible and airtight bag partsandwhose interiors are coupled together in the central axis direction of hole partwith fixing membertherebetween, the plurality of bag partsandbeing filled with powderor particles and fluid, and hardening unitconfigured to harden the plurality of bag partsand. Grasping parthas a configuration in which when a workpiece is pushed against any of the plurality of bag partsand, the contact portion with the workpiece conform to the shape of the workpiece while the other bag part expands in accordance with the deformation.

Suction gripper

An omni-directional rotational drive mechanism and a moving body in which production and maintenance can be facilitated, while the size can be reduced, by making the number of components smaller. A rotating body provided for a wheel member rotatable about a ring-shaped shaft having a rotating shaft of the wheel member as its center. The rotating body is configured to rotate integrally with the wheel member about the rotating shaft. A pair of worms rotatable about the same shaft as the rotating shaft of the wheel member. A pair of worm wheels are provided for the wheel member so as to be rotatable by meshing with different worms, and capable of transmitting each of rotations to the rotating body. The rotating body is configured so as to rotate or stop with respect to the wheel member in accordance with the rotational direction and the rotational speed of the respective worms.

Omni-directional rotational drive mechanism and moving body

A moving device includes an elastic tube, a sectional shape of which is elastically deformable according to an internal pressure given by fluid, a slider unit capable of moving forward and backward in a longitudinal direction of the elastic tube according to a change in the sectional shape of the elastic tube, a brake provided in the slider unit and configured to be deformed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the elastic tube to be capable of coming into sliding contact with a target object, and a fluid adjusting section configured to supply air to or discharge air from the elastic tube respectively via first and second fluid supply pipes that respectively communicate with insides on a distal end side and a proximal end side of the elastic tube.

Moving device and moving method of moving device

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Sendai, Japan

Kenjiro Tadakuma