Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nikon Corporation

Shinichiro Kobashi

Toru Takenaka

Kazushi Akimoto

Hideo Murakami

Makoto Hasegawa

Hiroshi Gomi

Taiji Koyama

Hideharu Izumi

Kazuya Kuwabara

Makoto Hirano

Yuichi Uebayashi

Sachiko Yamamoto

Shinya Shirokura

Masao Sasaki

Kazushi Hamaya

Tomokazu Sakamoto

Takeshi Echizenya

Wataru Yada

Taiki Iimura

Marika Mochizuki

Takayuki Nakagawara

Makoto Araki

Shota Yamaguchi

Satoshi Haneda

Hiroshi Iwakami

Seiji Kato

Hironori Waita

Etsuko Takasugi

Kazumasa Ozaki

Takeshi Misumi

Misato Echizenya

Hiroyuki Makino

Tsutomu Yoshino

Shinji Kawatani

Naoto Shikano

Masaki Aihara

Noriyuki Ishida

Masaki Goto

Yoshiki Tatsutomi

Yoshiji Takahashi

Jun Inada

Yui Tadano

Ritsuya Oshima

Hiroshi IWakami

Atsushi Matsunaga

Daiki Kawashima

The disclosure allows an occupant to control a vehicle as needed for the vehicle that automatically moves to a destination. An inverted pendulum type vehicle that travels while balancing an inverted pendulum type body includes: an operation input part that receives a driving operation of its own vehicle by a weight shift of an occupant; and a movement control part that causes the own vehicle to start automatic movement on a predetermined route at a predetermined time. The movement control part allows the own vehicle to deviate from the predetermined route and travel in a second direction when a weight shift greater than a threshold value is performed in the second direction other than a traveling direction related to the predetermined route during execution of the automatic movement.

Inverted pendulum type vehicle, vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and non-transient computer-readable recording medium

The disclosure supports accident prevention or evacuation action of a user who is on board a moving body when a disaster occurs. A moving body control device includes: a moving body control part that controls a moving body maintained in a first state or a second state that is more stable than the first state by a balance control mechanism; and an event detection part that detects an occurrence of a predetermined event. The moving body control part stops the moving body from traveling and causes the moving body to change to the second state regardless of a driving operation of the moving body by an occupant of the moving body in a case where the event detection part detects the occurrence of the predetermined event.

Moving body control device, moving body control method, and non-transient computer-readable recording medium

A search system according to an embodiment is a search system including one or more boarding-type mobile objects moving within a predetermined area and a mobile object management server managing the boarding-type mobile objects and includes a receiver that receives registration of information on a search target, an imaging controller that activates an imager mounted on the one or more boarding-type mobile objects when the registration of the information on the search target is received by the receiver, an acquirer that acquires an image of surroundings of the boarding-type mobile object captured by the imager, and a determiner that determines whether the search target is included in the image acquired by the acquirer.

Search system, search method, and storage medium

A mobile object management device that manages a boarding-type mobile object that moves within a predetermined area with a user on board includes an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of the boarding-type mobile object, a manager configured to manage the boarding-type mobile object and a terminal device of a user on the boarding-type mobile object in association with each other, and an event operation commander configured to cause the boarding-type mobile object to execute a predetermined operation in accordance with an event performed in the predetermined area via the terminal device of the user on the basis of the positional information and information on the event.

Mobile object management device, mobile object management method, and storage medium

Provided is an imaging system including an imager configured to image a ridable moving object positioned at a registered photo spot, and a processor configured to execute a program to cause a guide to guide the ridable moving object on which a user gets and which is positioned near the photo spot to a recommended position in the photo spot.

Imaging system, guidance control method, and storage medium

A movable body control device controls a movable body on which a worker performing a work task at a workplace is capable of boarding and which is capable of adjusting the height of a boarding part on which the worker boards. The movable body control device includes: an acquisition part that acquires, from a terminal device that is carried by the worker and that accepts information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task, information based on input information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task; and a control part that controls the height of the boarding part based on the information which is acquired by the acquisition part.

Movable body control device, movable body, movable body management system, movable body control method, and program

A movable body control system includes: a movable body on which a user is capable of riding; a support device that supports a body of the user in a lying posture; a body detection device that detects a state of the user supported by the support device; a periphery monitor device that monitors a periphery of the support device; and a determination part that determines whether or not the movable body is capable of approaching the support device based on a detection result of the periphery monitor device. In the movable body control system, in a case where the body detection device detects that the user is in a predetermined state and the determination part determines that the movable body is capable of approaching the support device, the movable body approaches the support device.

Movable body control system

To provide a frictional drive unit that can arrange drive rollers with high density and facilitate an attachment operation of the drive rollers, a frictional drive unitincludes a pair of drive disks, a plurality of drive rollersrotatably supported by an outer circumferential portion of each drive disk, a pair of actuatorsconfigured to independently rotate the pair of drive disks, and an annular main wheelarranged between the pair of drive disks and coming into contact with the drive rollers. Each drive roller includes a roller shaftand a round roller bodyprovided on an intermediate portion of the roller shaft. Each drive disk includes plural pairs of bearing grooveseach receiving both ends of the roller shaft of each drive roller. Each bearing grooves open toward the main wheel.

Frictional drive unit

A movable body control device controls a movable body which a worker who performs a work task at a workplace is capable of boarding and which is capable of traveling in a state where the worker is boarding. The movable body control device includes: an acquisition part that acquires, from a terminal device that is carried by the worker and that receives information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task, information based on input information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task; and a control part that controls a speed of the movable body based on the information which is acquired by the acquisition part.

A ridable moving object on which a user gets is provided. The ridable moving object includes a processor configured to execute a program to determine that the user has been away from the ridable moving object, detect a usage intention of another person different from the user for the ridable moving object, and generate an action command for causing the ridable moving object to perform a prescribed operation on a basis of setting information set for at least one of the user and the ridable moving object when it is determined that the user has been away from the ridable moving object and the usage intention of the another person for the ridable moving object has been detected.

Ridable moving object, control device for ridable moving object, control method, and storage medium

A mobile body (A) includes: a base body () tiltably assembled to a movement operation section () that can move on a floor surface; an occupant riding sectioninstalled to the base body () by a connection mechanism (); an auxiliary ground contact sectionconnected to the occupant riding section () and in contact with the floor surface in a slidable or rollable manner when a tilt amount of the occupant riding section () with respect to the floor surface increases to a predetermined amount; and a control device () which controls the movement of the movement operation section () to stabilize the attitude of the mobile body (A). The connection mechanism () elastically rocks the occupant riding section () with respect to the base body () according to the movement of the center of gravity of a user P riding on the occupant riding section ().

Mobile body

An information processing device includes a storage medium that stores computer-readable instructions, and a processor connected to the storage medium, in which the processor executes the computer-readable instructions to acquire virtual experience information indicating that a user has been provided with a virtual travel service to experience a virtual travel, and purchase information indicating that the user has purchased a right to receive a real travel service to experience a real travel, in a case where the virtual experience information and the purchase information are acquired, generate grant information for granting an incentive for the user to purchase the right to a provider of the virtual travel service or a provider providing an apparatus used for the virtual travel service, and output the grant information.

Information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium

Provided is a control unit for an inverted pendulum vehicle that can warn the vehicle operator by changing the behavior of the vehicle before the upright control of the vehicle fails. The control unit includes a target tilt command computation unit for computing a target tilt command (M_cmd_xy) for the base frame, and an attitude control computation unit for computing a target translational speed (Vw__xy) for fulfilling the target tilt command. When state information of the vehicle has deviated from a prescribed upright control tolerance range, the target tilt command computation unit generates a tilt command for notification, and superimposes the tilt command for notification (M_xy=M_+M_) onto the target tilt command.

Control unit for inverted pendulum vehicle

In a frictional propulsion device comprising a main wheel including a plurality of driven rollers rotatably supported by an annular core member about a tangential direction and a pair of drive disk each carrying a plurality of drive rollers about a rotational center line at an angle with respect to both a tangential line of the drive disk and the rotational center line of the drive disk such that the drive rollers at least partly engage the driven rollers, a diameter of a drive side contact circle is smaller than a diameter of a driven side contact circle, and the drive disks are vertically offset relative to the main wheel so that only those drive rollers adjoining the main wheel are in contact with the driven rollers. Thereby, the power efficiency of the device can be improved while minimizing the manufacturing cost and the weight of the device.

Frictional propulsion device and omni-directional vehicle

An inverted pendulum type vehicle capable of dissipating the dissociation of vehicle steering intention of a user and a vehicle motion condition. When a base tilts toward a first designated direction, gravity center shift effect amount Vofs_x is corrected by a gravity center shift correction amount Vdep_x calculated according to the tilting amount. The gravity center shift correction amount Vdep_x with respect to a second designated direction is determined so as to increase as the tilting amount toward the first designated direction of the base. Further, the gravity center shift effect amount Vdep_x determined by tilting toward the first designated direction of the base is controlled to a threshold value or less.

Inverted pendulum type vehicle

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Saitama, Japan

Shinichiro Kobashi