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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reliability on signal transmission at low costs by dividing radio communication means of robots into two or more groups. SOLUTION: This communication method for a robot group 10 is provided with a plurality of robots and a total supervising system to perform radio communication. A trumpet robot 11, a horn robot 12, a trombone robot 13, a tuba robot 14, a drum robot 15, and a DJ robot of the robot group 10 are provided with a first communication means and a second communication means, and the total supervising system 20 is provided with the first communication means and the second communication means. Operation information is transmitted from the robot of the robot group 10 to the total supervising system 20 by the first communication means in real time, and a connection confirming signal is transmitted from the total supervising system 20 to the robot of the robot group 10 by the second communication means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emergency stop device of an autonomous movable robot capable of certainly emergency-stop the robot even when the robot cannot receive an emergency stop signal. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a self position detection signal transmitter 20 to transmit a self position detection signal 21 for the robot 50 to detect its self position and a computer device 30 furnished on the robot 50 to receive a command signal from the controller 60 and the self position detection signal 21. The computer device 30 emergency-stops the robot 50 when it receives the emergency stop signal as the command signal or when it does not receive the self position detection signal 21. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for further correcting output of acceleration sensors for vehicles and capable of accurately correcting the drift errors of the acceleration sensors. SOLUTION: On the basis of a gradient θ in the forward and the backward directions estimated by a road gradient estimation means (166), output of the acceleration sensors 90 and 92 is corrected at an acceleration correction means 168. Acceleration values from the acceleration sensors are thus advantageously and accurately corrected, in comparison with a conventional correction device which considers that a vehicle is linearly cruising, when the difference between right and left rotation speeds of the vehicle remains within a prescribed value and takes output values of the acceleration sensors 90 and 92 at the time as drift errors. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robot capable of maintaining the attitude of the riding part constant. SOLUTION: The robot 10 has the riding part 100 to admit riding of a person and walks with a pair of leg links 12, and is equipped with a roll shaft actuator to change the attitude of the riding part round the advancing direction axis of the robot 10, a pitch shaft actuator to change the attitude of the riding part 100 round the lateral axis of the robot 10, a means to sense the attitude of the riding part 100 round the advancing direction axis and the lateral axis, and a controller to control the roll shaft actuator and the pitch shaft actuator so as to maintain constant the attitude of the riding part 100 round the advancing direction axis and the lateral axis sensed by the attitude sensing means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To create a technology for easily originating gait data. SOLUTION: A computer device 14 is provided with: a means 32 storing a standard toe x-t track describing the relation between a coordinate value x and an elapsed time t in the walking direction of a free leg toe in standard pace; a means 12 or the like for inputting pace coefficients which continuously change in relation to time; and a means 30 for calculating a free leg toe x-t track after correcting the pace described by the coordinate value x in the walking direction corrected by multiplying the coordinate value in the walking direction (x-axis direction) by the inputted pace coefficient, and the above elapsed time t. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly calculate data for instructing a body trunk position time-serially, required for walking, without overturning a robot, from data for instructing a position of a left tiptoe and a right tiptoe time-serially. SOLUTION: This device is characterized by having a making device of data for commanding a tiptoe position of the robot, a device for calculating a target ZMP (zero moment point) position from the tiptoe position, a device for converting the target ZMP position into a linearly calculable dimension from the body trunk position and its acceleration, a device for commanding the body trunk position and the acceleration to a dynamical model of the robot, a device for calculating a ZMP position provided when following the commanded tiptoe position and the body trunk position on the basis of the dynamical model of the robot, a device for converting the calculated ZMP position into the dimension, and a device for incrementally-decrementally correcting the body trunk position and the acceleration commanded by a commanding device, so that a value of conversion of the target ZMP position coincides with a value of conversion of the ZMP position calculated from the dynamical model. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a robot, walking without falling by moderately making effective "inversion pendulum control" during walking, and not causing "self-excited vibration" during resting. SOLUTION: In performing the so-called inversion pendulum control in which a target ZMP is corrected on the basis of an angle ϕ made between a line connecting the actual trunk position of the robot and the target ZMP and a normal passing the target ZMP, during the walking operation, a large correction amount ΔZMP for the target ZMP is calculated to the angle ϕ, and during being at rest, a small correction amount ΔZMP for the target ZMP is calculated to the angle ϕ. That is, a first gain multiplying the angle ϕ and a second gain multiplying the change speed of the angle ϕ are made smaller during being at rest. Since "inversion pendulum control" is moderately made effective during walking, the robot walks without falling, and during resting, the effectiveness of "inversion pendulum control" is restrained not to cause "self-excited vibration". COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a torque distribution clutch for a vehicle whereby turning traveling-time control for performing torque distribution control at turning travel and ordinary traveling-time control for performing torque distribution control at linear travel is prevented from being repeatedly selected in a short time period. SOLUTION: When selection from turning traveling-time control to other torque distribution control is determined by a torque distribution control determination means 264, other torque distribution control is selected based on the fact that a predetermined time period passes after the determination by a torque distribution control selection delay means 266. Thus, frequent control mode switch whereby turning travel control for performing torque distribution control at turning travel, ordinary traveling-time control for performing torque distribution control at linear travel or starting-time control is repeatedly selected at a short time period is suitably solved in winding or slalom travel whereby right or left turning travel is repeatedly performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce quantity of reducing agent required for supplying exhaust gas of theoretical air fuel ratio or rich air fuel ratio to an exhaust gas purifying material as much as possible. SOLUTION: The exhaust gas purifying material 17 is provided in an exhaust gas passage 13 of an internal combustion engine. Bypass passages 13, 27 bypassing the exhaust gas purifying material are connected to an exhaust gas passage. A flow regulating valve 18 is arranged in a branching area of the bypass passage and the exhaust gas passage. When it is determined that it is required to make an internal atmosphere of the exhaust gas purifying material should be made reductive atmosphere by supplying exhaust gas of theoretical air fuel ratio or rich air fuel ratio to the exhaust gas purifying material, supply of exhaust gas of theoretical air fuel ratio or rich air fuel ratio and stop of the supply are intermittently carried out and the flow regulating valve is controlled to keep air fuel ratio of major portion exhaust gas supplied to the exhaust gas purifying material theoretical air fuel ratio or rich air fuel ratio. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technique for recovering functions of a NOx catalyst by controlling opening of a nozzle vane of a variable displacement type turbo charger to adjust temperature of exhaust or an air-fuel ratio in exhaust in an exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: This device is provided with the variable displacement type turbo charger 15, the NOx catalyst 20, a toxicity eliminating control means 35 for detoxification, an NOx catalyst condition detection means 38 to detect a condition of the NOx catalyst 20, and a variable displacement type turbo charger control means 35 to open/close the nozzle vane 74 of the variable displacement type turbo charger 15 based on the condition of the NOx catalyst 20 detected by the NOx catalyst condition detecting means 38.