Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota

Mitsuo Koide

Koji Yamada

Toshitaka Kuno

Chisao Hayashi

Takashi Izuo

Yoshito Kato

Yasuo Ishiguro

Masaru Nakano

Kazutoshi Sukigara

Masaaki Yamaoka

Yoshiyuki Senba

Takuya Serai

Toshio Fuwa

Hiroshi Moribe

Yuji Tsusaka

Fumiaki Takeda

An inverted pendulum type moving body according to the present invention includes: first actuators that rotationally drive wheels each disposed on an axle; and a turning motion control portion that controls the first actuators when the inverted pendulum type moving body comes into contact with an obstacle so as to allow the inverted pendulum type moving body to perform a turning motion.

Inverted pendulum type moving body and method of controlling the same

A wheeled inverted pendulum mobile unit having: a driving wheel; a body that is tiltable about an axle of the driving wheel with respect to a vertical direction; a plurality of support members that extend downward from the body in the vertical direction, wherein the bottom ends of the plurality of support members are in contact with a ground before and behind the axle of the driving wheel, and the bottom ends moves up and down, with respect to the body, as the body tilts with respect to the vertical direction; and a lock mechanism that locks positions of the bottom ends of the support members with respect to the body.

Wheeled inverted pendulum mobile unit

To provide an inverted wheel type moving body capable of improving the operability, and a method of controlling the same. An inverted wheel type moving body in accordance with one aspect of the present invention includes motorsandfor rotationally driving a right driving wheeland a left driving wheelrespectively, a passenger seatrotationally supported on mountsandthrough swing armsand, a passenger seat drive motorfor driving the passenger seat, a control portionfor determining whether the manipulation amount exceeds the threshold value or not, and a motor driverfor control the passenger seat drive motorsuch that the passenger seatis moved in accordance with the manipulation amount when the manipulation amount does not exceed the threshold value and the movement of the passenger seatis restored after the manipulation amount exceeds the threshold value.

Inverted wheel type moving body and method of controlling same

The present invention provides, in connection with a coaxial two-wheeled inverted pendulum type moving vehicle, a technique which allows sudden braking without making a vehicle body to tilt significantly backward. The coaxial two-wheeled inverted pendulum type moving vehicle of the present invention comprises a pair of wheels, a chassis for supporting the pair of wheels coaxially and rotatably, wheel actuators for rotating the wheels with respect to the chassis, a vehicle body supported by the chassis, and an inverted pendulum control unit for controlling the wheel actuators so as to maintain the balanced state of the chassis. In this moving vehicle, the vehicle body is shiftable supported by the chassis in a manner that the vehicle body may shift in a direction parallel to the moving direction of the moving vehicle with respect to the chassis. The traveling body further comprises an attitude actuator for shifting the vehicle body along the moving direction of the moving vehicle with respect to the chassis, and a braking attitude control unit for controlling the attitude actuator so as to shift the vehicle body to a direction opposite to the moving direction of the moving vehicle with respect to the chassis when braking is commenced while the moving vehicle is in motion.

Coaxial two-wheeled inverted pendulum type moving vehicle

A force and moment which a manipulator receives from an external environment is detected, and this detected value is multiplied by a gain inversely proportional to a virtual spring constant set by a tool coordinate system, and the product is further converted to a value in each joint coordinate system of the manipulator so as to determine a detection torque. A command value of force and moment is converted to a value in each joint coordinate value of the manipulator in the same way as described above, so as to determine a command torque. A difference between a position command value and a position detection value is multiplied by a virtual spring constant in each joint coordinate system of the manipulator obtained by converting the virtual spring constant, and a differential torque is obtained by converting the aforementioned difference to a force and moment corresponding to the difference. A targeted torque is determined by adding the command torque and the differential torque, and feedback control is effected such that the detected torque of each joint of the manipulator coincides with the targeted torque.

Apparatus for effecting coordinated position/force control for a

This invention is a real-time tracking controller for a standard-path robot that detects a target point in advance, permitting higher-speed work. The robot uses both sensed data and previously taught data to accurately execute its task. Accurate control is obtained using target points corresponding to time intervals. Thus, even if the speed or path is changed during operation, accurate tracing is continuously executed.

Real-time robot control system tracking based on a standard path

A tracking control robot controls its arm end, which holds a tool, to track a taught path so that a reaction force between a workpiece and the tool remains constant. An ideal state for the arm end is determined from the present state of the arm end and the difference between the actual reaction force and a predetermined target force. Then, this ideal state is compared with a reference state of the arm end on the taught path to obtain a target position and a target attitude of the arm end. Since a target position is always determined independently of the last target position, no position error due to time delay affects a new target position even when the next target position is generated before the tool reaches the last target position. Thus, the robot is quick, responsive, and accurate when tracking at a constant operation speed.

Robot with controlled tool tracking displacement

A control system for an industrial robot having a hand which traces a pre-stored standard course defining its position and posture and which has a foresight function. The hand is provided with a tool and a work shape sensor, where the tool and the work shape sensor have a known spatial relationship. The foresight function is realized by a control system comprising temporary storing means for temporarily storing a future position and/or posture data of the tool calculated from a sensed position and/or posture data of the present sensor position. The stored data is output after a delayed time interval when it is compared with a pre-stored standard data. When the difference is small, the data is used to control the future position and/or posture of the hand. When the difference is great, an abnormality process is started.

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Mitsuo Koide