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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2020
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Yasunao Okazaki, Shiga, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/02 (2020.01); A47L 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0268 (2013.01); A47L 11/4011 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a mobile robot that moves autonomously over a floor covered by a carpet, the mobile robot including an acceleration sensor that measures a translational acceleration of the mobile robot, an estimation unit that estimates an inclination of a pile of the carpet on a basis of the translational acceleration measured by the acceleration sensor while the mobile robot is accelerating or decelerating, and a movement control unit that controls a movement velocity and a movement direction of the mobile robot on a basis of the inclination of the pile estimated by the estimation unit.