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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2006
Kenichiro Sugiyama, Saitama, JP;
Taro Yokoyama, Saitama, JP;
Takeshi Koshiishi, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Makino, Saitama, JP;
Kenichiro Sugiyama, Saitama, JP;
Taro Yokoyama, Saitama, JP;
Takeshi Koshiishi, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Makino, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The autonomous mobile robot having an openable and closable gripper for gripping goods, cameras, an autonomous mobile means, and a control means for making the robot carry the goods to a destination from an acquisition source, the control means comprising: a grip position recognition means configured to recognize a predetermined position suitable for gripping a carrier container of a predetermined specification configured to place the goods to carry, based on an image of the acquisition source taken by the cameras; a grip control means configured to drive the gripper to the predetermined position of the carrier container and to control gripping the predetermined position; and a grip-success-or-not determination means configured to determine whether or not the gripping is successful, based on an external force acting on the gripper.