Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation

Rie Katsuki

Tsuyoshi Tasaki

Junya Tanaka

Akihito Ogawa

Takafumi Sonoura

Yuma Sano

Hiroaki Ikeuchi

Hiroshi Takahashi

Hideki Ito

Hiroyuki Kayano

Noritsugu Shiokawa

Tamio Kawaguchi

Haruna Eto

Hideichi Nakamoto

Hideki Ogawa

Toshimitsu Kaneko

Tomoki Watanabe

Daisuke Yamamoto

Masahiro Sekine

Junji Oaki

Manabu Nishiyama

Toshikatsu Akiba

Noriyuki Hirayama

Masaki Yamazaki

Takashi Yoshimi

Kohei Nara

Keisuke Kamata

Hiroshi Ohtsu

Kazuhide Sawa

Yasuo Shima

Yuko Kobayashi

A route planning device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: calculate a tentative route passing through a plurality of tour points disposed in a virtual space that is acquired by removing an obstacle from a space including the obstacle; and derive a route with one or more via points added around an interference point between the obstacle included in the space and the tentative route with a calculation accuracy corresponding to a precision of via point calculation.

Route planning device, route planning method, and computer program product

According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a map defining a target in a coordinate space in which a direction along a traveling direction of a moving object is one of coordinate axes, and approximate a movement route of the moving object with a specified shape area along a coordinate axis in the coordinate space, the specified shape area being a basic unit of collision determination.

Information processing device, information processing method, computer program product, and moving object

According to an embodiment, an article posture changing device includes: a first end effector configured to grasp a projected tag of an article by adsorption; an arm unit configured to support the first end effector and move the first end effector along at least a vertical direction; and a controller configured to control the arm unit and the first end effector to grasp the tag, lift the article upward, separate the article from a placement surface, change an angle of the article by weight thereof, move the article downward, place the article on the placement surface, and release the grasp of the tag.

Article posture changing device and article posture changing method

An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.

Information processing device, information processing method, and vehicle

According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and one or more hardware processors electrically coupled to the memory and configured to function as a change unit, and a display controller. The change unit is configured to change a reference path to a position at a lateral distance when the lateral distance obtained from lateral environmental information indicating a lateral environment of the reference path referred to as a scheduled running path of a moving body is larger than a distance from a lateral end to a center of a running region of the moving body. The display controller is configured to display display information including the reference path on a display unit.

Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program product

According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: arrange a node in a first region not interfering with an object on a scheduled traveling route; arrange a node in a second region around an interference region interfering with the object; and search for a route going through a plurality of nodes and having a moving cost from a first point to a second point on the scheduled traveling route equal to or smaller than a threshold.

Information processing device, mobile object, information processing method, and computer program product

According to an embodiment, an object detection apparatus includes an imaging unit, an extraction unit, an estimation unit, and a detection unit. The imaging unit acquires an image of a plurality of polyhedrons which are loaded, each of the polyhedrons having a marker on a surface, each of marker including a first straight line portion and a second straight line portion. The extraction unit that extracts a plurality of markers included in the image. The estimation unit estimates a region included in the surface by using the first straight line portion and the second straight line portion of the extracted markers. The detection unit detects a region having all corners provided with the markers as a surface of a desired polyhedron.

Object detection apparatus, depalletization automating apparatus, and object detection method

According to one embodiment, an apparatus for generating an occupancy grid map constituted with a two-dimensional grid around a first moving body includes processing circuitry configured to acquire data of a distance from the first moving body to an obstacle lying in surroundings of the first moving body; acquire first information indicating the movement status of the first moving body at current time and determine an operation mode of the first moving body; set a range of interest in a grid of a resolution higher than a resolution of the grid of the occupancy grid map, from the operation mode; and align the occupancy grid map to the range of interest and generate the occupancy grid map in such a manner that the obstacle exists in the grid of the occupancy grid map and the grid of the range of interest with respect to a position corresponding to the distance data.

Apparatus, method and program for generating occupancy grid map

A displacement conversion mechanism of an embodiment is a displacement conversion mechanism which is provided with a base, a displacement element which is in contact with the base and is displaced in a first direction, a first displacement portion which is in contact with the displacement element and can be displaced in the first direction, a second displacement portion which connects to an end of the first displacement portion at a first connection portion, and connects to the base at a second connection portion, and a third displacement portion which connects to the other end of the first displacement portion, connects to an end portion of the second displacement portion at a fourth connection portion, and can be displaced in a second direction intersecting with the first direction.

Displacement conversion mechanism and tunable filter device

An information processing device according to an embodiment has a recommended route generation function. The recommended route generation function generates a recommended route with a changed section involving a change in a traveling direction within a predetermined range on a scheduled traveling route, the changed section including a first line and a second line. The first line continues to a first position at an entrance of the changed section. The second line continues to a second position at an exit of the changed section. The second line is longer than the first line. A tangential line of the second line and an exit line of the changed section forms an angle within a predetermined angle range.

Information processing device, information processing method, and moving body

According to one embodiment, an article handling apparatus includes a gripper, a supporting portion, a sensor, and controller. The gripper grips an article. The supporting portion supports an article from below. The sensor recognizes a plurality of articles to generate a recognition result. The controller calculates a position of a first article located highest among the plurality of articles based on the recognition result, calculates a position of a second article located second highest in a region determined based on the position of the first article, controls movement of the gripper based on the position of the first article, and controls the movement of the supporting portion based on the position of the second article.

Article handling apparatus and method of operating the same

According to an embodiment, a control apparatus includes a shaper and a compensator. The shaper receives a first target value in position control of a controlled object and generates a second target value which changes substantially rampwise over a time equal to or shorter than a period corresponding to one of resonance frequencies of the controlled object until the second target value becomes equal the first target value. The compensator compensates for a control signal, used for controlling the controlled object, based on the second target value.

Control apparatus and tunable filter apparatus

According to an embodiment, a filter characteristic tuning apparatus includes a characteristic tuning member, an elastic member, a first movable member, a second movable member, and a driving mechanism. The elastic member comes in contact with a characteristic tuning member by deformation, and separates from the characteristic tuning member by a restoring force. The first movable member deforms the elastic member in a closing operation. The driving mechanism displaces a second movable member such that a projection opens/closes the first movable member. The characteristic tuning member changes a gap between the characteristic tuning member and the resonator by a linear driving force obtained by converting the transmitted rotary driving force.

Filter characteristic tuning apparatus, tunable filter apparatus and control method for tunable filter apparatus

An information communication system for use in a robot communicates a full-color light flux between a transmitting device and a receiving device separated from each other. The transmitting device receives a sensor signal to generate an optical information signal including a color signal based on a sensor identifying information and a brightness signal based on an output level of the sensor signal, and irradiates a light flux (an optical signal) enabling a user to recognize it through the optical information signal from a color LED. The receiving device is arranged away from the transmitting device, in which an analysis unit generates an identifying signal and an output level of a sensor on the basis of color information and brightness information extracted from an image processor from image data including the optical information signal imaged by an imaging unit.

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Rie Katsuki