Nec Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Other

Tohoku University

Pioneer Corporation

Masafumi Yano

Yano, Masafumi

Masatsugu Ogawa

Masumi Ichien

Hisaya Wakayama

Yuma Matsuda

Masaki Nakano

Yutaka Kashihara

Shuichi Ohkubo

Toshiaki Iwanaga

Masafumi Emura

Nobuharu Kami

Mineto Satoh

Takehiro Itou

Yuji Nagai

Akihito Ogawa

Hiromi Honma

Teruo Takagiwa

Atsuhiro Tanaka

Hiroyuki Oyama

Shuichi Ookubo

Masahiro Kato

Chosaku Noda

Naoki Morishita

Masafumi Nakada

Ryuichi Katayama

Yutaka Yamanaka

Tohru Kanegae

Masaki Kan

Minoru Kobayashi

Eisaku Kawano

Junpei Kamimura

Dai Kobayashi

Shigeru Shimonou

Naoto Yamamoto

Mitsuya Okada

Masahiro Miura

Takashi Torii

Hiroharu Satoh

Hideaki Ohsawa

Takeharu Shibatoko

Daisuke Eto

Susumu Kawakami

Yuuji Nagai

Masahiro Yagi

A control deviceX mainly includes a state setting meansX and an operation planning meansX. The state setting meansX sets a predicted start state that is a predicted state of a workspace at a time when a robot starts a work of sorting items and a target state which represents a state where the items are placed in sorting containers by the work, based on information regarding the items and the sorting containers. The operation planning meansX determines an operation plan of the robot based on the predicted start state and the target state.

Control device, control method, and storage medium

The control device 1A mainly includes a determination meansA, an abstract state setting meansA, and a sequence generation meansA. The determination meansA determines, based on at least one of environment information relating to environment observed in a workspace of a controlled device to be controlled, state information relating to a state of the controlled device, and stored information that is stored information relating to the objective task to be executed by the controlled device, whether or not the objective task can be completed. The abstract state setting meansA sets, when determined that the objective task cannot be completed, an abstract state in the workspace based on at least one of the environment information or the stored information. The sequence generation meansA generates, based on the abstract state and the objective task, a sequence of subtasks to be executed by the controlled device.

Control device, control method and storage medium

A control deviceA mainly includes a display control meansA and an operation sequence generation meansA. The display control meansA is configured to transmit display information Srelating to a task to be executed by a robot to a display deviceA. The operation sequence generation meansA is configured, in a case that the display control meansA has received, from the display deviceA, task designation information that is input information which schematically specifies the task, to generate an operation sequence to be executed by the robot based on the task designation information Ia.

Provided is an anomaly detection apparatuscapable of detecting anomalies of processing results. The anomaly detection apparatusestimates first processing result information in accordance with first processing, using data regarding a target, compares second processing result data, for the data, obtained by second processing that differs from the first processing with the first processing result information, and detects an anomaly of the second processing according to the comparison result.

Anomaly detection apparatus, anomaly detection method, and recording medium

In a robot control system, a storage unit stores a plurality of programs corresponding to tasks for a robot to perform. A reception unit receives selections made by a user, which designate a task for the robot to perform and attribute information related to a program causing the robot to perform the task among the plurality of programs. An acquisition unit acquires the program for performing the task among the plurality of programs from the storage unit based on the task and the attribute information. A robot control unit controls the robot in accordance with the acquired program.

Robot control system, robot control method, and recording medium

To make it possible to change the action of an unmanned vehicle by reflecting the importance of purposes that can change in response to a change in the situation. An unmanned vehicle () acts according to a plurality of purposes. A purpose importance input means () inputs the importance of each purpose in the unmanned vehicle (). An action parameter determining means () determines a parameter for controlling the action of the unmanned vehicle () based on purpose importance information indicating the input importance of each purpose. An action controlling means () controls the action of the unmanned vehicle () in accordance with the parameter determined by the action parameter determining means ().

Unmanned vehicle controlling system and method, and nontransitory computer-readable medium

A control device acquires position information of an unmanned machine subject to control, and position information of an unmanned machine not subject to control; attempts to detect a target object, using a sensor signal from a sensor mounted in at least one of the unmanned machines; calculates a presence probability distribution of the target object based on information on a position and a time at which detection of the target object is successful; determines a formation of the unmanned machines based on the presence probability distribution of the target object; calculates an operation amount of the unmanned machine subject to control, based on the formation; and performs operation setting on the unmanned machine subject to control, according to the calculated operation amount.

Control device, formation determination device, control method, and program

A control device for an autonomous operating machine includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first state information of a first autonomous operating machine and second state information of a second autonomous operating machine in a case where the first and the second autonomous operating machines that operate in cooperation with each other select and execute executable operations as needed in order to achieve an object; a generation unit that generates value information indicating a height of a value of execution for achievement of the object regarding each of the operations that can be executed by the first autonomous operating machine by using a value calculation criterion based on the first state information and the second state information; a selection unit that selects a specific operation from among the operations based on the value information; and a control that controls the first autonomous operating machine to execute the specific operation.

Control device for autonomous operating machines, control method for autonomous operating machines, and recording medium having control program for autonomous operating machines stored thereon

An evaluation target period acquiring unit acquires an evaluation target period based on an evaluation timing included by evaluation index information that includes at least an evaluation index to be evaluated and the evaluation timing of the evaluation index. A control target extracting unit extracts a control target whose control timing is included in the evaluation target period as a first control target from control target information that includes at least the control target to be the target of a control plan in an operation and the control timing of each control target. A control planning unit calculates the control plan maximizing the evaluation index with the first control target as a variable and state information that is information necessary for calculation of a control achievement at a time of planning and the control plan, as a constraint condition.

Control planning device, control planning system, control planning method, and recording medium

To order to enable to improve accuracy of sensing information after being shared and to improve efficiency of control based on the sensing information when there is a possibility of loss of sensing information from another device, the information sharing device acquires a sensing result of an own device, transmits integrated information obtained by integrating information related to the sensing result of the own device and the another device stored in an integrated information storage means, receives the integrated information of the another device that is communicable, and causes the integrated information storage means to store the integrated information that is new obtained by integrating the integrated information stored in the integrated information storage means of the own device, the sensing result of the own device, and the integrated information of the another device.

Information sharing device, information sharing method, and recording medium

Provided is a work management device for arranging a worker in consideration of a change of work efficiency. In a work management device, an index acquisition unitacquires, for each work section, a work evaluation index calculated based on work history performed by a worker. A duration time acquisition unitacquires a duration time for which a work status of the worker is the work evaluation index. A cost acquisition unitacquires a cost incurred when the worker moves between the work sections. A determination unitacquires an estimated work amount performed by the worker until the duration time is elapsed. The determination unitdetermines, based on the estimated work amount and cost, arrangement of the workers in the plurality of work sections in such a way as to increase work efficiency in a whole of a work range.

Work management device, work management method, and program storage medium

A control device includes a search information calculation unit, an area information storage unit, an area information update unit, and a location control unit. The search information calculation unit acquires information relating to a plurality of unmanned vehicles that move within a target area in accordance with a set operation, and calculates search information relating to the unmanned vehicles using the acquired information relating to the unmanned vehicles. The area information storage unit stores area information including indicators for searching the target area. The area information update unit updates the area information on the basis of said search information and the time that has elapsed since the last search conducted by the unmanned vehicles. The location control unit which, on the basis of the area information, calculates locations to which the unmanned vehicles should move, and outputs control signals for causing the unmanned vehicles to move to the calculated locations.

Control device, control method, and non-transitory program recording medium

A control method of a vehicle, comprising: estimating an environment model relating to a search region, based on environment information acquired by an environment sensor, wherein the environment sensor acquires the environment information representing an environment around a local vehicle among one or more vehicles; estimating an effective range based on the estimated environment model, when the local vehicle, and each vehicle among the one or more vehicles move to each candidate destination; and configuring a plurality of sets being configurable by the candidate destinations of all the vehicles, determining, based on the estimated effective range, a certain set, among the plurality of sets, by which an entire size demarcated by the effective range in one set among the plurality of sets becomes maximum.

Vehicle control device, method for control of vehicle, and program for control of vehicle control device

Provided is a control apparatus includes, a state information obtainment unit configured for, with respect to each of at least some nodes including an assigned node among a plurality of nodes being mobile nodes, obtaining state information that represents a state related to a predetermined value corresponding to a position of each of the some nodes; a control information generation unit configured for generating control information for controlling movement of the assigned node based on the state information of each of the some nodes; and a control unit configured for controlling movement of the assigned node based on the control information.

Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium

Provided is a control device which controls at least one of unmanned vehicles forming a group of unmanned vehicles that includes one vehicle, the control device acquires information on a state of another vehicle, calculates comparison values for plural kinds of actions by using acquired information on the one vehicle and the another vehicle, selects an action that the one vehicle is to take, based on comparison values for the plural kinds of actions, calculates an operation amount of the one vehicle by using information on an selected action and acquired information on a state of the another vehicle, and sets an operation setting value of an actuator for operating the one vehicle by using the calculation result.

Control device, control method, and program recording medium

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Masatsugu Ogawa