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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takuya Ikeda, Nagakute, JP;
Koji Terada, Nagakute, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A robot including a manipulator includes: an image-pickup acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of an environmental space including a target object to be grasped; and a control unit configured to control a motion performed by the robot, in which the control unit causes the robot to acquire, by the image-pickup acquisition unit, a plurality of information pieces of the target object to be grasped while it moves the robot so that the robot approaches the target object to be grasped, calculates, for each of the information pieces, a grasping position of the target object to be grasped and an index of certainty of the grasping position by using a learned model, and attempts to grasp, by moving the manipulator, the target object to be grasped at a grasping position selected based on a result of the calculation.