Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Ryosuke Murai

Tatsuo Sakai

Hiroyuki Uematsu

Shintaro Kinoshita

Mizuho Sakakibara

Shoichi Kobayashi

Hajime Kawano

Yukihiko Kitano

Rie Takahashi

Provided is an automatic power supply device which enables to perform an automatic power supply with a simple configuration, with respect to a moving body. The automatic power supply device that includes a terminal for a power supply, and supplies power to a rechargeable battery which is placed in the moving body through a power receiver which is disposed in the moving body, the automatic power supply device includes a mechanism that drives a power supplier including the power supply terminal, and a mechanism that automatically charges the moving body. The automatic power supply device includes a cavity in a portion of a housing shape of the automatic power supply device, in a measurement area of an environment recognition sensor which is included in the moving body.

Automatic power supply system, automatic power supply device, and autonomous moving system

An autonomous vehicle includes: a first sensor which obtains environmental information on surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle; and a control unit which controls a drive unit based on a self position. The control unit includes: a first estimation unit which calculates a first estimate value indicating an estimated self position, by estimation using a probabilistic method based on the environmental information; and a second estimation unit which calculates a second estimate value indicating an estimated self position, by estimation using a matching method based on the environmental information, and the control unit changes, according to the first estimate value, a second estimate range for the calculating of the second estimate value by the second estimation unit, and controls the drive unit using the second estimate value as the self position.

Autonomous vehicle and method of estimating self position of autonomous vehicle

Autonomous mobile robot

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Ryosuke Murai