Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Takamasa Udagawa

Makoto Yamamura

Hiroto Takahashi

Satoshi Haneda

Ryuichi Kimata

Satoshi Onodera

Masato Fujiwara

Hiroyuki Isegawa

Yutaka Tsuji

Masaya Honji

A self-propelled work machine that conducts work in a work area, comprising an imaging unit for capturing an image of a surrounding environment and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit performs a first process of detecting a predetermined object based on an imaging result, a second process of determining a degree of a backlight state in the imaging result, and a third process of conducting travel control of the work machine for any of making a turn, stopping, and moving backward in front of the detected object, and in a case where it is determined in the second process that the imaging result is in the backlight state, the processing unit sets a distance from the detected object when conducting the travel control in the third process to the work machine to be larger.

Work machine and processing device

An autonomous work machine that works in a work area, the autonomous work machine comprising: a storage unit that stores past captured images including one or more markers arranged to define the work area; a specifying unit that specifies a past captured image stored in the storage unit and similar to a current captured image captured by an image capturing unit; and a control unit that controls the autonomous work machine based on the past captured image specified by the specifying unit.

Autonomous work machine, control device, autonomous work machine control method, control device operation method, and storage medium

An autonomous work machine that works in a work area, comprising: a detection unit that detects a plurality of markers arranged to define the work area; a specifying unit that specifies marker information based on a detection result of the detection unit; a setting unit that sets a virtual line connecting the plurality of markers based on the marker information specified by the specifying unit; and a control unit that controls the autonomous work machine such that the autonomous work machine does not deviate to a region beyond the virtual line set by the setting unit.

Autonomous work machine, autonomous work machine control method, and storage medium

A control system including a charging station, a plurality of autonomous work machines, and a control apparatus configured to control the plurality of autonomous work machines, wherein the control apparatus comprises: an obtain unit configured to obtaining power information of each autonomous work machine; and a control unit configured to control each autonomous work machine based on the power information such that charging timings of the autonomous work machines at the charging station do not match each other.

Control system, control apparatus, autonomous work machine, operation method of control apparatus, control method of autonomous work machine, and storage medium

An autonomous work machine for automatically performing a work on a work area while moving in the work area, includes an image capturing unit configured to capture the work area; and a control unit configured to specify, based on an image of the work area captured by the image capturing unit, contents of a failure having occurred in the work area, and control the autonomous work machine based on the specified contents of the failure.

Autonomous work machine

An autonomous work machine that works on a target object in a work area while performing an autonomous travel operation in the work area, comprises an obtainment unit configured to obtain a distribution the target object of the work, a determination unit configured to determine a turn direction of the autonomous work machine in accordance with the distribution of the target object, and a control unit configured to control the autonomous work machine so that the autonomous work machine will turn in the turn direction at a turn timing during the autonomous travel operation.

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

An autonomous work machine that includes a camera configured to capture an image of an external world, comprises a determination unit configured to determine, based on an image captured by the camera, whether backlighting has occurred, and a control unit configured to control, in a case in which the determination unit has determined that the backlighting has occurred, the autonomous work machine so as to avoid the backlighting.

A control device includes: an image acquiring section that acquires image data of an image of a work target of the work machine; a feature recognizing section that recognizes a feature about at least one of (i) a type of the work target of the work machine, (ii) a number or density of the work target, (iii) a shape of the work target and (iv) an appearance of the work target after work, based on the image data acquired by the image acquiring section; and a control parameter deciding section that decides at least either (i) a parameter for controlling travel of the work machine or (ii) a parameter for controlling work of the work machine, based on the feature recognized by the feature recognizing section.

Control device, work machine and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

A work machine having an autonomous travel function may include: a cutting section that cuts a work target of the work machine; an image-capturing section that captures an image of the work target cut by the cutting section; and a judging section that judges a state of the cutting section based on the image captured by the image-capturing section. The judging section may judge whether maintenance of or a check on the cutting section is necessary or not based on a result of judgment about the state of the cutting section.

Work machine, control device and control program

An information processing device includes: an image acquiring section that acquires image data of an image of a plant; a form recognizing section that recognizes at least either (i) a shape of the plant or (ii) an end portion of the plant, based on the image data acquired by the image acquiring section; and a deciding section that decides at least one of (a) a level of water content in a medium of the plant, (b) whether water-supply to the plant is necessary or not, and (c) an amount of water-supply to the plant, based on a feature of at least either the shape of the plant or the end portion of the plant that is recognized by the form recognizing section.

Information processing device, water-supply system, information processing system and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

A working system () includes: a working actuator () installed on a working machine (); a camera () and a microphone () detecting a state of a user changing in accordance with a satisfaction level; a rework determining unit () determining whether a rework is needed based on the detected state of the user after a predetermined work is performed by the working machine (); and an actuator controlling unit () controlling the working actuator () to perform the rework when it is determined by the rework determining unit () that the rework is needed.

Working system and working method

A detecting section detecting a change in a monitoring target of a monitoring device; and an operation mode deciding section deciding an operation mode of the device according to a detail of the change in the monitoring target detected by the detecting section are included. The device may have a work instrument for executing a second work different from a first work selected from a group of monitoring, security and guard works for the monitoring target. The operation mode deciding section may have: an alert level deciding section deciding an alert level indicating a level of threat to the monitoring target, according to the detail of the change in the monitoring target detected by the detecting section; and a second operation mode deciding section deciding a second operation mode indicating an operation detail about the second work, according to the alert level decided by the alert level deciding section.

Control device, monitoring device and control program

An information providing apparatus () includes: an organism recognizing unit () recognizing an organism in an outside world; a harmfulness level detecting unit () detecting a harmfulness level of the organism recognized by the organism recognizing unit (); an emotion generating unit () generating an emotion that a device () is assumed to have in accordance with the harmfulness level detected by the harmfulness level detecting unit (); and an emotion output unit () outputting the emotion produced by the emotion generating unit () in a mode recognizable by a user.

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Saitama, Japan

Takamasa Udagawa