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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2011
Applicants:
Ryoko Ichinose, Tsukuba, JP;
Ikuo Takeuchi, Kasumigaura, JP;
Takashi Teramoto, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 15/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/00 (2006.01); B66B 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 1/2458 (2013.01);
Abstract
An elevator system which an autonomous mobile robot and human user can utilize safely and efficiently. The system has an available area detection unit to detect an available area in a cage, and a riding possibility/impossibility determination unit to determine whether or not the autonomous mobile robot can get on the cage based on information on size and position of the available area detected by the available area detection unit. The autonomous mobile robot gets on the cage only when the riding possibility/impossibility determination unit determines that riding is possible.