Autonomous moving machine
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorNAOYUKI HARADA
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Abstract
An aspect of the present disclosure relates to an autonomous moving machine which may maintain the self-location with high reliability. Operations of the moving machine include acquiring sensor information about the self-location, estimating the self-location based on the sensor information, calculating the reliability of the estimated self-location, recording the reliability in association with the estimated self-location. When the reliability satisfies a given condition, the operations include moving the moving machine to a position at which the reliability is high, based on the reliability.
Claims12
A moving machine configured to move to a target location through autonomous control, the moving machine comprising:
- a sensor that obtains a self-location,
- a processor;
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- a memory storing a computer program, the computer program, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to perform operations including:
- obtaining sensor information related to the self-location from the sensor,
- estimating the self-location based on the sensor information,
- calculating a reliability of the self-location,
- recording the reliability and the self-location as history information, the reliability associated with the self-location, and
- moving the moving machine to a position at which the reliability is high based on the history information when the reliability satisfies a predetermined condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.