Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Mitsuo Koide

Akinobu Fujii

Minoru Tanaka

Yuuji Tsusaka

Makoto Ichinose

Makoto Hayakawa

A forklift includes a vehicle body, a forkmounted on the vehicle body, a controller configured to adjust a position and an orientation of the vehicle body, a laser sensorconfigured to measure distance data from the laser sensor to an object existing in a space set forward of the fork, and a control commander configured to, when the distance data measured by the laser sensor includes a load or a palletto be lifted, generate track data for moving the vehicle body to a loading position of the load or the pallet based on the distance data, and provide a command to the controller using the generated track data.

Forklift

A mobile apparatus includes a main body, a range sensor, an operation device, and a mobile mechanism. The operation device includes a wide route data generation unit that generates a wide route data according to which the main body is moved from a first specified location to a second specified location, a determination unit that determines a location and a posture of a reference object, an approaching route data generation unit that generates an approaching route data according to which the main body is moved from the second specified location to a target location, and a route data switching unit that switches traveling route from the wide rote data to the approaching route data after the approaching route data is generated. The approaching route data generation unit generates the approaching route data while the main body is traveling according to the generated wide route data.

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Nagakute, Japan

Mitsuo Koide