Autonomous traveling device and autonomous traveling device control method
AssigneeNidec Drive Technology Corporation
InventorsJun Nishiyama, Shohei Imada, Tomoki Yoshikawa
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Abstract
One aspect of an autonomous traveling device includes: an information adding unit that adds, as positional information of a virtual obstacle, to map information, positional information of a virtual obstacle that passes through a rear side of the device with respect to a starting point of a travel route and continuously extends to a front side on both right and left sides of the device itself; and a route search unit that searches for a travel route based on the map information to which the positional information of the virtual obstacle is added.
Claims7
An autonomous traveling device, comprising:
- an information adding unit that adds, as positional information of a virtual obstacle, to map information, positional information of a virtual obstacle that passes through a rear side of the autonomous traveling device with respect to a starting point of a travel route and continuously extends to a front side on both right and left sides of the autonomous traveling device;
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- a route search unit that searches for the travel route based on the map information to which the positional information of the virtual obstacle is added, wherein
- the autonomous traveling device is configured to autonomously travel along the travel route while keeping a center of the autonomous traveling device at a prescribed distance or more from the virtual obstacle.
An autonomous traveling device control method, comprising:
- an information adding step of adding, as positional information of a virtual obstacle, to map information, positional information of a virtual obstacle that passes through a rear side of the autonomous traveling device with respect to a starting point of a travel route and continuously extends to a front side on both right and left sides of the autonomous traveling device;
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- a route search step of searching for the travel route based on the map information to which the positional information of the virtual obstacle is added, wherein
- the autonomous traveling device is configured to autonomously travel along the travel route while keeping a center of the autonomous traveling device at a prescribed distance or more from the virtual obstacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.