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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Taku Osada, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
A legged mobile robot for accurately calculating the positional relationship between a leg and an obstacle to the walking of the robot has a base body and a plurality of legs operatively connected to the base body. A vision sensor mounted on the base body captures image data containing both an image of a portion of a foot of one of the legs and an image of an obstacle in the course of robot walking. The legged mobile robot calculates the positional relationship between the leg and the obstacle from the captured image data, and walks while recognizing the positional relationship as calculated between the obstacle and the foot.