Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Taro Yokoyama

Hiroto Takahashi

Takuya Kanisawa

Wei Song

Toshiaki Kawakami

Toru Takenaka

Takashi Matsumoto

Hiroshi Gomi

Kazushi Akimoto

Takahide Yoshiike

Yoichi Nishimura

Kazushi Hamaya

Kenichiro Sugiyama

Yoshinari Takemura

Yuichiro Kawaguchi

Koji Kawabe

Naohide Ogawa

Sachie Hashimoto

Yoko Saito

Takamichi Shimada

Takeshi Koshiishi

Masanori Takeda

Hiroyuki Makino

Minami Asatani

Tomoki Watabe

Satoki Matsumoto

Masaki Aihara

Katsuyoshi Watari

Koji Maki

Florent Ferreri

Kotaro Hayashi

Takamasa Iio

Satoru Satake

Takayuki Kanda

Hiroyuki c/o Makino

An information providing device includes an information acquisition part configured to acquire environment information which indicates a growth environment of grass in a predetermined area and state information which indicates a growth state of the grass in the predetermined area, and an information generating part configured to determine a good area which indicates an area in which the growth state of the grass in the predetermined area is good and a bad area which indicates an area in which the growth state of the grass in the predetermined area is bad based on the state information, and configured to generate management information which indicates a content of treatments to be performed with respect to the good area and the bad area based on the environment information.

Information providing device, mowing vehicle and mowing management system

A control device includes a control unit configured to acquire individual information indicating a state of a predetermined member of a work machine configured to execute work using the predetermined member, and instruct a state adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the state to adjust the state so that a difference between the state indicated by the individual information and a reference value of the state common to other work machines is reduced.

Control device, work system, work machine, and control method

A mower includes: a cutting part which is able to cut grass; a machine body which includes the cutting part and a cover configured to cover the cutting part from above; and a state control part which controls a state of at least one of the cutting part and the cover such that at least one of grass in a space provided between the cutting part and the cover and grass outside the cover is able to be cut in the cutting part in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Mower

An autonomous work system includes a first work machine, a plurality of second work machines having different functions, a setting device that stores work schedule information indicating work schedule content, performance of the first work machine, and performance of the plurality of second work machines, and a terminal. The first work machine acquires a state of work performed by its own device and transmits detection result information indicating the acquired state of work to the setting device. The setting device discriminates whether additional work is required based on the detection result information and the work schedule information, and in a case where the additional work is required, selects the second work machine, and transmits additional work information including work content for the second work machine and information relating to the second work machine to at least one of the terminal and the second work machine.

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

A control device capable of improving the position accuracy of map data is disclosed. The control device is configured to acquire information which is output from a working machine which includes a working part and works along a boundary between a working area and a non-working area. The control device includes an operating state acquisition part configured to acquire information indicating an operating state of a machine body of the working machine; a judgment part configured to determine the operating state of the machine body, based on information acquired by the operating state acquisition part; a position information acquisition part configured to acquire position information indicating a position of the machine body; and a storage control part configured to store the position information acquired by the position information acquisition part in the storage, based on a determination result of the judgment part.

Control device and work machine

A robot control system detects a position and a direction of each user by a plurality of range image sensors provided in an exhibition hall. A central controller records an inspection action after a user attends the exhibition hall until the user leaves to generate an inspection action table. When the user attends again, the central controller reads a history of inspection action from the inspection action table. Then, the central controller chooses from an utterance content table an utterance content containing a phrase that mentions the inspection action included in the history at a time of last time attendance, determines the utterance content, and makes a robot output the determined utterance content to the user.

Robot control system, robot control method and output control method

In an apparatus for controlling a mobile robot having leg locomotion mechanisms for traveling and walking and work mechanisms both connected to a body, actuators for driving them, and a controller for controlling the operation of the locomotion mechanisms and work mechanisms by supplying the actuators with a control value calculated by multiplying a deviation between a detected value and a desired value by a gain and to control operation of a speech input/output unit to recognize a human voice inputted through a microphone and utter a generated response to the human voice from a speaker, the controller calculates the gain of the control value to be supplied to at least one of the actuators at a minimum value when controlling only the operation of the speech input/output unit.

Apparatus for controlling mobile robot

A robot and so forth capable of avoiding the mutual interference of a plurality of active sensors mounted on the other robots so that a task may be smoothly executed by each of a plurality of robots are provided. If an active sensor mounted on each of the plurality of robots (R) may mutually interfere with each other and if the degree of contribution of the active sensor to a task being executed by the self robot (R) is lower than that of the active sensor of the other robot (R) to the task being executed by the other robot (R), the sensitivity of the active sensor of the self robot (R) is decreased. As a result thereof, the mutual interference of the active sensors can be avoided, and the robot (R) can be prevented from causing trouble to the task.

Robot and task execution system

In a legged mobile robot having an imaging device (such as CCD camera) for taking an image utilizing incident light from external world in which a human being to be imaged is present, brightness reduction operation is executed to reduce brightness of a high-brightness imaging region produced by high-brightness incident light, when the high-brightness imaging region is present in the image taken by the imaging device. With this, when the imaged high-brightness imaging region is present owing to high-brightness incident light from the sun or the like, the legged mobile robot can reduce the brightness to image a human being or other object with suitable brightness.

Image brightness reduction for legged mobile robot

A robot and the like capable of executing a task in an appropriate condition from the viewpoint of execution economy even when a state of the task is altered. A cost is evaluated that represents a load or labor required for a robot () to execute a new task, and the cost information indicating the cost is transmitted to a support server () (bid procedure). The support server () designates the robot () having the lowest cost as a designated robot () and transmits an execution instruction for executing the new task to the designated robot (). The robot () executes the task according to the execution instruction (contract procedure). By employing the task bid and contract system, a designated task is executed by an adequate robot (R) among a plurality of robots (R) in consideration of the execution economy of the designated task.

A robot or the like able to precisely grip an object by flexibly changing an operation in accordance with various environments. When it is judged that a robot is in a 'first state', the action of the robot is controlled in accordance with a 'first action mode'. Thus, the robot does not move and moves an arm or the like on the spot so that a first object Wcan be gripped by a hand. On the other hand, when the judging result is denial, the robot acts in an action mode different from the first action mode so that a relative position or the like of the first object Wwith the robot as a reference is changed. As a result, the robot can be changed from a non-first state to the first state.

Robot, control method of robot and control program of robot

In a control system of a legged mobile robot having a body and legs connected to the body and driven by a leg actuator, there is provided an operation controller which identifies a human being like visitor to be conducted in a company building and the like, and controls operation of the leg actuator to conduct the identified visitor to a destination such as a reception room in the company building space along a route determined based on a map stored in a map database, while keeping pace with the visitor, thereby enabling to establish better communication with the visitor.

Legged mobile robot control system

A robot recording a message on a wireless tag which includes: a voice recognition unit recognizing a voice input by a voice input unit which inputs a voice of a person; a message extraction unit extracting the message from the voice recognized by the voice recognition unit based on a fixed phrase provided for obtaining a message; a recording unit recording the message extracted by the message extraction unit on the wireless tag provided on an object.

Interface apparatus and mobile robot equipped with the interface apparatus

In a legged mobile robot control system having leg actuators each driving the individual legs and arm actuators each driving the individual arms, an external force acting on the right arm is detected, operation of the right arm actuators is controlled to produces a handshake posture, and operation of the leg actuators is controlled based on the detected external force acting on the right hand during handshaking, thereby improving communication capability by enabling it to shake hands with humans and to maintain a stable posture during the handshaking.

Handshake legged mobile robot control system

The content of the voice designation of a designator is recognized by a voice recognition partat the time of controlling a robot, and the content of the indication of gesture or the like is recognized by an image recognition part. A movement destination and a map around the specific position designated are referred from a map data baseregistering the position of an obstacle and the current position estimated by a self-position estimation part. After movement ease is decided by a movement ease decision part, the behavior is decided. When movement designation is given to the robot, correspondence according to a situation can be performed.

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