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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a leg device which can adjust the positional relationship between a lower thigh device and a foot device. SOLUTION: The leg device 100 includes the lower thigh device 16, the foot device 100 and an ankle joint 17. The lower thigh device 16 is fixed to the lower thigh of a user. The foot device 100 is fixed to the foot of the user. The ankle joint 17 connects the foot device and the lower thigh device so that the foot device swings around the pitch axis of the ankle of the user. The foot device 100 has a sole unit 40 having a load sensor 31 and a position adjusting mechanism 42. The position adjusting mechanism 42 adjusts the arrangement position of the sole unit 40 with respect to the ankle joint 17 within a surface crossing the yaw axis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an opening and closing door for power supply that contributes to a reduction in manufacture cost of a moving vehicle. SOLUTION: This opening and closing door 1 for power supply is an opening and closing door which is arranged to be able to cover the charge terminal 21 of the moving vehicle 2 and opens and closes when charging a battery 22 mounted on the moving vehicle 2. The opening and closing door 1 for power supply includes a pair of doors 11 and 12 which open in both directions with hinges, a driver 13 which is a rotation source for the pair of doors 11 and 12, a link mechanism 14 which transmits a driving force to the pair of doors 11 and 12 from the driver 13, the first sensor 15 which senses the open state of the pair of doors 11 and 12, the second sensor 16 which senses the closed state of the pair of doors 11 and 12, and a control unit 17 which controls the drive unit 13 based on the perception signal from the first sensor 15 or the second sensor 16. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a route search system, method and program that prevent walking of a person from being interrupted, and to provide a mobile body. SOLUTION: The route search system is a robot that searches a moving route of the mobile body that starts movement from a moving start point existing in a moving region and reaches a moving end point existing in the moving region. The system includes: a primal route search unit 112 that searches a standard route based on information on the moving region; a shift direction decision unit 113 that determines a shift direction based on a travel direction of the standard route; and a moving route decision unit 115 that determines a moving route by shifting the standard route in a shift direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for detecting a fabric at any position under a complicated environment. SOLUTION: An apparatus for detecting the fabric includes a camera for capturing an image, an operational device for learning wrinkle characteristics from sample images and detecting a region of the fabric from the result of learning and an input image of a measured object which is taken up by the camera, a memory device for storing the learning results of wrinkle characteristics, and a display for displaying the detected fabric region. By this constitution, it is possible to detect the fabric at any position under the complicated environment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous mobile robot and a control method of the autonomous mobile robot capable of coping with an obstacle hardly recognized by a visual sensor. SOLUTION: When the obstacle hardly recognized by the visual sensor collides against a bumper 3 forming the outline of a moving body 2, external force input to the bumper 3 is measured by a load cell 5. Based on the measured result of the load cell 5, the position of the obstacle 4 is specified, and whether the obstacle 4 can be excluded by the driving force of the moving body 2 is determined. When it is determined that the obstacle 4 can be excluded by the driving force of the moving body 2, the obstacle 4 is excluded by the driving force of the moving body 2 to continue traveling. When it is determined that the obstacle 4 cannot be excluded by the driving force of the moving body 2, the obstacle 4 whose position is specified is by-passed. Consequently, even when the obstacle 4 hardly recognized by the visual sensor exists on a travel path, it can be treated with. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous mobile robot and method of creating a moving route of the autonomous mobile robot in which a route of the robot can be easily corrected regardless of the size or the shape of the mobile robot body even in a real-time change. SOLUTION: In an autonomous mobile robot includes: a mobile robot body including a moving means; a target route determining means which determines a target route for moving the mobile robot body; and a control unit for controlling the moving means to move the mobile robot body on the basis of the determined target route. A virtual arm is virtually generated to which the terminal section is freely turnably attached to the mobile robot body, and the moving means is controlled to move the tip end of the virtual arm along the determined target route while maintaining constraints of attitudes on the generated virtual arm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a location information acquisition system of a mobile object for accurately acquiring the location information of the mobile object. SOLUTION: The location information acquisition system 1 of the mobile object includes: an inertia sensor 3 installed at the mount 8 of the mobile object; a radio ID tag 2 laid on the backside or surface of a floor 7, and having location information; a radio ID tag reader 4 installed at the mount 8 of the mobile object, and configured to read the location information of the radio ID tag 2; a processing means 5 for acquiring the current location information of the mobile object on the basis of the location information of the radio ID tag 2, creating the approximation formula of the traveling orbit of the mobile object on the basis of detection information of the inertial sensor 3, correcting the approximation expression on the basis of the location information of the radio ID tag 2, and acquiring future predicted location information of the mobile object by using the corrected approximation formula; and storage means 6 for storing the detection signal of the inertial sensor 3, the location information of the mobile object and moving path information of the mobile robot 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous mobile body allowing more proper autonomous movement by widely acquiring environmental information inside a movement area wherein the autonomous mobile body moves without using large-scale equipment. SOLUTION: This autonomous mobile body 10 autonomously moving on a movement map P specified inside the movement area comprises: a mobile body main body 10a having a movement means driven by a drive part 13; and a mobile separate body 100 configured such that the mobile separate body 100 can be installed to the mobile body main body 10 and can be physically separated therefrom, capable of moving in a three-dimensional area including a space in the height direction of the movement area. The autonomous mobile body 10 creates a movement route on the movement map P stored by itself based on the peripheral environmental information, and corrects the created movement route based on wide-area environmental information that is the environmental information of a wide range acquired by the mobile separate body 100. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT