Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Takafumi Ushiyama

Junji Oaki

Junichi Inoue

Haruhiko Horiuchi

Tetsuya Masuda

A picking apparatus in an embodiment includes: a gripper, an arm, a detector, and a control unit. The gripper picks and grips an object to be conveyed. The arm moves the gripper and causes the gripper to convey the object to be conveyed. The detector is attached to the arm and senses a force applied to the gripper. The control unit controls an operation of the gripper and the arm. The control unit includes a calculator and a subtractor. The calculator calculates a gravitational force and an inertial force applied to the gripper when the gripper grips and moves the object to be conveyed using an arithmetic expression including a coefficient determined in accordance with a mass of the object to be conveyed. The subtractor subtracts the gravitational force and the inertial force calculated by the calculator from a force applied to the gripper sensed by the detector.

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Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan

Takafumi Ushiyama