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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 04, 2016
Topy Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takuma Akazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Tsukui, Tokyo, JP;
Topy Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A traveling apparatus that can be moved in two directions includes a body, a pair of crawler units, crawler actuatorsand rolling actuators. The crawler unitsare supported by the bodysuch that the crawler unitsare rotatable about a rotational axis L. The traveling apparatus performs crawler moving in a direction of the rotational axis Lby the crawler actuatordriving pairs of crawler structuresA,B of the crawler units. The traveling apparatus performs moving by rolling in a direction orthogonal to the rotational axis Lby the rolling actuatormaking the crawler unitsroll about the rotational axes L. To prepare for the crawler moving, the crawler unitsare made to roll to take a movable attitude based on attitude information of the crawler unitsfrom rotary encoders