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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2022
Applicant:
Nidec Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NIDEC CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G08G 1/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aspect of an autonomous travel device includes a selected unit configured such that one option is selected from a plurality of options corresponding to each of a plurality of passage widths having mutually different degrees of freedom of movement allowed for travel through a passage, and a route search unit configured to search for, on the basis of map information, a travel route that avoids passages that are narrow relative to the passage width corresponding to the selected option.