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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
Yoko Saito, Saitama, JP;
Koji Kawabe, Saitama, JP;
Yoko Saito, Saitama, JP;
Koji Kawabe, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A mobile robot includes a radio communication unit; a radio environment detector detecting plural types of radio environment data indicating the degree of goodness of radio environment, a comprehensive radio environment data being calculated from results of weighting the plural types of radio environment data with predetermined weights; a self-position detecting unit; a storage for map data of a movement area; the calculated comprehensive radio environment data being written in association with its own position detected. The robot moves at a movement speed not higher than the maximum movement speed determined so that communication with the radio base station is not cut off during movement and, if radio communication is cut off, searches the radio environment map for a communication restoration position where the radio communication is feasible to establish and moves to the communication restoration position and has the radio intensity reporting control section reporting the determined level of radio intensity.