Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Kawai

Toru Takenaka

Takashi Matsumoto

Makoto Yamamura

Tadaaki Hasegawa

Tsukasa Sugino

Masaya Honji

Hiroshi Gomi

Hideaki Takahashi

Yuichi Yoshida

Kaoru Toba

Shigeo Sano

An information processing apparatus manages work performed in a work region. An acquisition unit acquires information regarding a work result of the work region. An evaluation unit evaluates work performed in the work region based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit. An identifying unit identifies a work subject that has performed work in a region for which an evaluation is performed by the evaluation unit.

Information processing apparatus, work management system, and work management method

A working machine includes: a working drive source that generates a drive force; a working device that performs a predetermined work using the drive force of the working drive source; a sensor that acquires environmental information that is information on a surrounding environment of the working machine; and a control part that determines whether or not to perform an influence reduction control on the basis of the environmental information acquired by the sensor, and in a case where it is determined that the influence reduction control is to be performed, performs the influence reduction control which is a predetermined control that reduces an influence on the surrounding environment of a sound generated when the working device performs the predetermined work.

Working machine and control device

An autonomous work system includes a first work machine, a second work machine, and a setting apparatus, in which the setting apparatus sets a part of an entire work region as a first work region in which the first work machine performs work, and calculates a first work time required for the first work machine to perform the work in the first work region, sets a region other than the first work region in the entire work region as a second work region in which the second work machine performs work, and calculates a second work time required for the second work machine to perform the work in the second work region, changes the first work region and the second work region such that a difference between the first work time and the second work time is within a predetermined value, transmits information regarding the changed first work region to the first work machine, and transmits information regarding the changed second work region to the second work machine.

Autonomous work system, autonomous work setting method, and storage medium

An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: collect monitoring information indicating circumstances of a monitoring area from a plurality of monitoring information acquiring units, detect an object which is located in the monitoring area on the basis of the monitoring information, update map information of the monitoring area using position information indicating a position of the object, and provide the map information to a working machine that performs predetermined work in the monitoring area.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method

An information processing device includes a vegetation analysis section configured to analyze a vegetation state of a monitoring area on the basis of detection information acquired from a detection unit and indicating a status of the monitoring area, a restricted area determination section configured to define a restricted area, where entry is restricted, in the monitoring area on the basis of the vegetation state, and a guidance information providing section configured to provide a terminal device with guidance information indicating restrictions on entry into the restricted area.

Information processing device, information providing system, and information processing method

A moving speed estimation device which includes a vibration component information estimation unitwhich estimates the vibration cycle or vibration frequency of the periodic vibration component included in instantaneous moving speed of a mobile body A along with a periodic moving action of the mobile body A. The moving speed estimation device also includes a speed estimated value adjustment processing unitwhich sequentially generates speed values as estimated values of the moving speed of the mobile body A, where the speed value is obtained by performing at least processing of removing a vibration component corresponding to the estimated value of the vibration cycle or vibration frequency for the time series of the instantaneous moving speed estimated from the time series of the measured value of the position of the mobile body A.

Moving speed estimation device for mobile body and control device for mobile body

A remote controller for a biped robot is of a simple arrangement capable of remotely controlling movement of the biped robot while taking into account the stability of the attitude of the robot. A manipulation unit outputs, to a robot A, signals representative of manipulated positions of manipulator levers which correspond respectively to both legs of the robot A. A control unit mounted in the robot A generates a motion command (desired gait) for determining motions of the legs for at least two steps of a walking action of the robot A depending on the manipulated positions of manipulator levers which are represented by output signal data from the manipulation unit , and controls motions of the legs based on the motion command.

Remote controller of biped robot

In a biped walking robot having a body and two articulated legs each connected to the body through a hip joint and having a knee joint and an ankle joint, connected by a shank link, a knee pad is mounted on the shank link as a landing/shock absorbing means at a position adjacent to the knee joint which is brought into contact with the floor when coming into knee-first contact with the floor such that the knee joint is to be positioned at a location forward of the center of gravity of the robot in a direction of robot advance, while absorbing impact occurring from the contact with the floor. With this, the robot can be easily stood up from an attitude with its knee joint regions in contact with the floor. Moreover, when coming into knee-first contact with the floor, it can absorb the impact of the contact to protect the knee joint regions and the floor from damage.

Knee pad for a legged walking robot

An arm structure for anthropomorphic robots minimizes the occurrence of a singularity state of a shoulder joint assembly while the arm of the anthropomorphic robot is normally working, for thereby allowing the arm to operate smoothly. The position and posture of first through third joints (,), (,), (,) of a shoulder joint assembly (,) and the position of an elbow joint assembly (,) with respect to the third joint (,) are established such that the elbow joint assembly (,) is located above a horizontal plane lying through the point of intersection of the axes (,), (,), (,) of the first through third joints (,), (,), (,), while the shoulder joint assembly (,) is operated into a singularity state wherein the first axis (,) of the first joint (,) and the third axis (,) of the third joint (,) are aligned with each other and the elbow joint assembly (,) is positioned laterally of a torso (,).

Arm structure for man type working robots

A legged moving robot has a plurality of movable legs for repeatedly touching and leaving a floor. A force sensor is mounted on each of the movable legs at a position spaced from a foot sole thereof toward a proximal end thereof, and detects at least a force and a moment based on a reactive force applied from the floor to the foot when the foot is landed on the floor. The foot is tilted along a ridge on the floor by actuators when the foot is landed on the ridge such as the edge of a stair. A position of the center of the reactive force applied from the floor to the foot is recognized on the basis of the force and the moment detected by the force sensor, in a plurality of tilted attitudes of the foot when the foot is tilted. A landed direction and/or a landed position of the foot with respect to the ridge is recognized on the basis of the position of the center of the reactive force recognized in the plurality of tilted attitudes of the foot.

Apparatus for recognizing the landed state of foot of legged moving robot

A legged moving robot has a plurality of movable legs extending downwardly from an upper body and having actuators associated respectively with joints thereof. A fall judging unit decides whether the robot is likely to fall down while the robot is operating. An actuator controller controls the actuators associated respectively with the joints of the movable legs to lower the center of gravity of the robot when the fall judging unit determines that the robot is likely to fall down.

Control system for controlling the knee joint actuators of a legged

A legged moving robot has a plurality of movable legs for repeatedly touching and leaving a floor. An apparatus for detecting the landing position of a foot sole of each of the movable legs has a force sensor mounted on each of the movable legs at a position spaced from a foot sole thereof toward a proximal end thereof. The force sensor detects at least a perpendicular force perpendicular to the foot sole and a moment about an axis extending in a lateral direction of the foot sole and passing through a predetermined reference point on the foot sole. A time when the foot sole touches or leaves the floor is detected on the basis of the perpendicular force detected by the force sensor. A landing position for the foot sole to start touching or end leaving the floor is determined on the basis of the perpendicular force and the moment detected by the force sensor, at the detected time or in a predetermined time range near the detected time.

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