Activity area restriction method, robot control apparatus, and notifier
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaki Ueyama, Anuraag Singh
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Abstract
An activity area restriction method for restricting an activity area of a robot includes: an area setting information acquisition step of acquiring area setting information notified by a notifier, the area setting information including a range of a predetermined restricted area with a height; an area restriction condition recognition step of recognizing the range of the restricted area, based on the area setting information; and an activity restriction step of restricting activity of the robot with respect to the restricted area.
Claims10
An activity area restriction method for restricting an activity area of a robot, comprising:
- an area setting information acquisition step of acquiring area setting information indicated by a notifier, the area setting information including a range of a predetermined restricted area with a height;
- an area restriction condition recognition step of recognizing the range of the restricted area, based on the area setting information;
- a step of storing, in a memory, information of the range of the restricted area which is recognized in the area restriction condition recognition step;
- and
- an activity restriction step of restricting activity of the robot with respect to the restricted area,
- wherein the activity restriction step includes
- restricting the activity of the robot with respect to the restricted area based on the information of the range of the restricted area stored in the memory even after the notifier is removed, and
- removing restriction of the activity of the robot by the restricted area when recognizing a mark indicating derestriction.
A robot control apparatus that controls operation of a robot, comprising a CPU that includes:
- an area setting information acquisition section that acquires area setting information indicated by a notifier, the area setting information including a range of a predetermined restricted area with a height;
- an area restriction condition recognition section that recognizes the range of the restricted area, based on the area setting information;
- and
- an activity restriction section that restricts activity of the robot with respect to the restricted area,
- wherein the area restriction condition recognition section stores, in a memory, information of the range of the restricted area,
- the activity restriction section
- restricts the activity of the robot with respect to the restricted area based on the information of the range of the restricted area stored in the memory even after the notifier is removed, and
- removes restriction of the activity of the robot by the restricted area when recognizing a mark indicating derestriction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.