Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yuji Adachi

Katsuhiko Asai

Yasunao Okazaki

Masaki Yamamoto

Kazuo Yokoyama

Eiichi Nagaoka

Keiji Sakamoto

Yoshihiko Matsukawa

Soichiro Fujioka

Atsushi Ono

Toshio Inaji

A lens barrel includes a fourth lens, a prism, and a sixth lens. The fourth lens receives a light flux incident along a first optical axis. The prism includes a reflecting surface reflecting the light flux passing through the fourth lens to a direction along a second optical axis intersecting with the first optical axis. The sixth lens receives the light flux reflected by the prism. A second group frame includes an opening portion, a prism retaining frame that is arranged in a more inner position than the opening portion and in which the prism is contained, and a plurality of adhesive pockets arranged on an area around the prism retaining frame and being open to the side of the opening portion. Adhesive agent is filled in the adhesive pockets.

Lens barrel, image pickup device, and lens barrel manufacturing method

An autonomous mobile device has its movement controlled by a control device and includes a first sensing unit for sensing an obstacle. The control device includes a first storage unit for storing information as to a temporary positional fluctuation of the obstacle and sets as a virtual obstacle region a region where it is predicted that the obstacle sensed by the first sensing unit travels following a predetermined time passage based on the information as to the temporary positional fluctuation of the obstacle stored in the first storage unit.

Autonomous mobile device, and control device and program product for the autonomous mobile device

A working robot arm and an object recognizing unit used for recognizing a moving body such as a person and an animal are prepared, and while an object recognized by the object recognizing unit is blocked by a shielding operation by the use of the robot arm or a trunk portion of a robot mechanism unit, a job is carried out by the working robot arm so that it becomes possible to actively ensure a working space of the robot mechanism unit, and consequently to continue the job safely.

Robot apparatus performing shielding operation of an object from workspace

A multi-joint drive mechanism includes a bone-member layer member () in which a plurality of bone members are arranged in arrays and in a generally planar fashion, the plurality of bone members being movably coupled at coupling portions (A), and elastically expanding/contracting members () which are arranged so as to stretch over the coupling portions on one side or both sides of the bone-member layer member and moreover which are fixed between the plurality of bone members, wherein the multi-joint drive mechanism drives flexural motions of joints between the plurality of adjoining bone members by expanding or contracting the elastically expanding/contracting member.

Articulated driving mechanism, method of manufacturing the mechanism, and holding hand and robot using the mechanism

A two-wheeled inverted robot includes a body, two wheels coaxially arranged on the body, a drive device for driving each of the wheels, a first state detector for detecting at least one of an inclination angle and an inclination angular speed of the body, a second state detector for detecting at least one of a rotation angle and a rotational angular speed of the wheel, a body constraint recognizing device for detecting whether or not body rotation is constrained, and a controller for determining a command value to the drive device. Based on the detection result by the body constraint recognizing device, the controller determines the command value for changing a ratio of a torque contributing to the body rotation.

Inverted two-wheeled robot

A working robot arm and an object recognizing unit used for recognizing a moving body such as a person and an animal are prepared, and while an object recognized by the object recognizing unit is blocked by a shielding operation by the use of one portion of a robot mechanism unit, a job is carried out by the working robot arm so that it becomes possible to actively ensure a working space of the robot mechanism unit, and consequently to continue the job safely.

Robot apparatus

An internal pressure of a hydropneumatic drive actuator is measured by a pressure measurement device, a displacement amount of a movable mechanism is measured, a desired value and a measurement value of the displacement are inputted so that a position error is compensated by a position error compensation device, a desired value of a pressure difference of the actuator to which antagonistic driving is performed by the desired value is calculated by a desired pressure difference calculation device, outputs from the position error compensation device, the desired pressure difference calculation device, and the pressure measurement device are inputted, and a pressure difference error is compensated by pressure difference error compensation device.

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Osaka, Japan

Yuji Adachi