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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1992
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A running control system for a mobile robot has the functions necessary for motion clustered into a danger avoidance portion, a safe region advance portion and an interest region follow portion, and these are coupled to a motion actuator control portion which directly controls each movement of the robot, and fused in the motion actuator control portion. Operation commands are configured from a moving distance and a moving direction of the mobile robot. In addition, there is also a coupling in the direction of the safe region advance portion from the danger avoidance portion but internal situations such as the failure and end of processing and like are transmitted using these couplings of portions. Interference between intelligent behavior and reflexive behavior is basically performed via the motion actuator control portion. The control amount for the motion actuator is determined by fusing a plural number of types of operation commands relating to the various types of behavior of the mobile robot, and it is possible to have real-time running of the mobile robot. In addition, when there is a failure in the various types of processing and which can occur in a dynamic environment, the inducing of a operation command of an auxiliary function portion enables the positive escape from a status of failure.