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Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2023
Applicants:

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yasutaka Fuke, Tokyo, JP;

Hirone Komatsu, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Matsuzawa, Tokyo, JP;

Shin Asano, Tokyo, JP;

Kotaro Tadano, Tokyo, JP;

Koshiro Irie, Tokyo, JP;

Chanvicharo Ly, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 18/06 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01); F16L 101/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 18/06 (2013.01); B25J 9/1607 (2013.01); B25J 13/089 (2013.01); G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); F16L 2101/30 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40269 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control device for an inspection device including a long flexible robot that is formed by connecting a plurality of units and bendable at each unit with a desired curvature, and a posture actuator that adjusts a posture of the unit includes a target posture specifying unit that specifies a target posture including positions of representative points of the respective units traveling along a predetermined route, and an operation amount determination unit that determines an operation amount for bringing the unit to the target posture using a learning model with the target posture of the unit as an input and an operation amount of the posture actuator as an output.


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