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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2022
Applicant:
Nidec Drive Technology Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NIDEC DRIVE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/24 (2024.01); G05D 1/246 (2024.01); G05D 1/622 (2024.01); G05D 1/639 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/2464 (2024.01); G05D 1/622 (2024.01); G05D 1/639 (2024.01);
Abstract
One aspect of an autonomous traveling device includes: an information adding unit that adds, as positional information of a virtual obstacle, to map information, positional information of a virtual obstacle that passes through a rear side of the device with respect to a starting point of a travel route and continuously extends to a front side on both right and left sides of the device itself; and a route search unit that searches for a travel route based on the map information to which the positional information of the virtual obstacle is added.