Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Naoki Kameyama

Makoto Yamamura

Satoshi Onodera

Keiji Muro

Hideaki Shimamura

Yoshiaki Kotani

Hiroto Takahashi

Hiroya Takahashi

Ryota Hisada

Runa Kaneko

Takahide Konchi

Jin Nishimura

Minami Kigami

A map is stored in a robot that has a travelling unit, wherein the map is represented by a grid having a plurality of parcels, and a data set is assigned to each parcel such that the grid is represented by a plurality of data sets, each data set assigned to each parcel includes a characteristic value representing a characteristic of the parcel, and a grid value representing a shape of the parcel.

Map data having unequal interval

A growing state of a plant is appropriately managed with a convenient method. For example, a control apparatus to control a work machine with an autonomous movement function includes an illuminance information obtaining section to obtain the illuminance information indicating at least one of (i) the illuminance of the work machine in motion and (ii) the illuminance of a region located on an advancing direction of the work machine in motion and a control section to control at least one of an advancing direction, an advancing speed, a work mode and a travel mode of the work machine based on the illuminance information obtained by the illuminance information obtaining section.

Control apparatus, work machine, control method, and computer readable storage medium

An autonomous work vehicle including a positioning information obtaining unit including a GNSS receiver acquiring a position of the autonomous work vehicle, a driving unit including a motor, a memory storing position coordinates used to establish an entry avoidance zone, and a control unit including a processor. The control unit is configured to function as a zone entry judgement unit determining whether the autonomous work vehicle has approached the entry avoidance zone, and a zone entry validation unit determining whether the determination by the zone entry judgement unit that the autonomous work vehicle has approached the entry avoidance zone is valid. When the zone entry judgement unit determines that the autonomous work vehicle has approached the entry avoidance zone, and the zone entry validation unit determines that the determination by the zone entry judgement unit is valid, the control unit controls the autonomous work vehicle to perform an avoidance maneuver.

Travel route control of autonomous work vehicle using global navigation satellite system

An autonomous work machine that works in a work area while autonomously traveling in the work area, comprises a specification unit configured to specify, based on information of a position detection unit configured to detect position information, a self-position of the autonomous work machine, a determination unit configured to determine, based on the self-position, whether the autonomous work machine has reached a perimeter portion of a no-work area positioned within the work area, and a control unit configured to control the autonomous work machine to do a lap along the perimeter portion in a case in which the autonomous work machine is determined to have reached the perimeter portion.

Autonomous work machine, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

A moving efficiency of a work machine decreases if an obstacle, an entrance prohibiting region, and the like are arranged inside a region, if a positioning precision of the work machine is relatively low, and the like. A control apparatus includes a control section to control a movement of a moving object based on at least one of a completion level of map information indicating a region where a moving object is permitted to enter and a location estimation precision of a moving object.

To make it possible to correct a current position detected by an autonomous traveling work machine to the correct position with a simple configuration. A robot lawn mower includes a first position detecting unit for detecting a current position by using odometry and a second position detecting unit for detecting a current position by using an image capture. When position detection accuracy of both of the first and second position detecting units decreases to less than or equal to a predetermined value, the robot lawn mower is controlled to travel to either of zones Zand Zin which the position detection accuracy of the second position detecting unit is relatively high, and when the robot lawn mower moves to either of the zones Zand Z, a current position used for autonomous traveling is corrected to the current position detected by the second position detecting unit.

Autonomous traveling work machine

A work system comprising a first autonomous work machine and a second autonomous work machine, wherein the first autonomous work machine includes: a detection unit configured to detect dirt on the second autonomous work machine; and a notification unit configured to, if the detection unit detects dirt, notify the second autonomous work machine of dirt information indicating the detection of the dirt, and the second autonomous work machine removes the dirt or waits in a predetermined position in response to the notification of the dirt information by the notification unit.

Work system, autonomous work machine, method of controlling autonomous work machine, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A cleaning system includes a mower that executes a mowing work while traveling autonomously, and a cleaning station that cleans the mower. The cleaning system includes: an acquirer that acquires dirt information relating to a state of dirt of the mower; a determiner that determines at least one of a necessity of cleaning the mower and a method of cleaning the mower, based on the dirt information; and a first cleaning executor that executes a cleaning operation, according to a determination result of the determiner.

Cleaning system and method of controlling cleaning system

It includes an intensity pattern determination section to determine an intensity pattern indicating a distribution of a magnitude of a target quantity in at least a part of a moving path of the moving object, a subarea determination section to determine, among a plurality of subareas, one or more subareas having an intensity pattern which matches or is similar to an intensity pattern determined by the intensity pattern determination section based on map information which associates area identification information which identifies each of a plurality of subareas included in a target region having a predetermined geographic range and an intensity parameter indicating a magnitude of a target quantity premeasured in the subarea, and an output section to output, as a location of the moving object, one or more subareas determined by the subarea determination section.

Location estimation apparatus, moving object, location estimation method, and computer-readable storage medium

A technology for improving a positioning precision is desired in a case where a positioning precision of a positioning signal is relatively low. A location estimation apparatus includes a sub area extraction section configured to extract one or more sub areas including at least a part of a region defined by a location and an error range indicated by positioning information, a precision parameter extraction section configured to refer to map information in which area identification information is associated with a precision parameter indicating a positioning precision and extract, with regard to each of the one or more sub areas extracted by the sub area extraction section, the precision parameter, and an output section configured to output the sub area where the positioning precision indicated by the precision parameter is equal to or worse than the positioning precision indicated by the positioning information, as a location of a moving object.

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Saitama, Japan

Naoki Kameyama