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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yuta Itozawa, Nagoya, JP;
Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute, JP;
Hirotaka Komura, Tokyo, JP;
Yutaro Takagi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Nakamoto, Nisshin, JP;
Junya Ota, Tokyo, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An opening-closing control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a device that controls opening and closing of a plurality of doors of an accommodating portion when a robot executes a task of loading or unloading an object to and from the accommodating portion. The opening-closing control device includes a door opening information acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a door to be opened in order to execute the task; and a control unit that controls, based the on the information indicating the door to be opened in order to execute the task, a lock unit that is arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of doors and that is configured to restrict a door other than the door to be opened in order to execute the task in a closed state.