Moving body and control apparatus
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsKatsuhisa ITO, Yuhei YABE, Takuya NISHIBAYASHI
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Abstract
To provide a moving body that is capable of more flexible movement. Provided is a moving body including four or more legs that have wheels at ends thereof and are able to be controlled along two or more axes, and a body supported at the four or more legs, in which the four or more legs include two or more front wheel legs that are capable of swinging forward in an advancing direction of the body, and two or more rear wheel legs that are capable of swinging backward in the advancing direction of the body, and the front wheel legs and the rear wheel legs are capable of swinging to such positions that the wheels overlap one another in a direction orthogonal to the advancing direction.
Claims16
A moving body comprising:
- four or more legs that have wheels at ends thereof, and are able to be controlled along two or more axes;
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- a body supported at the four or more legs, wherein
- the four or more legs include two or more front wheel legs that are capable of swinging forward in an advancing direction of the body and two or more rear wheel legs that are capable of swinging backward in the advancing direction of the body, and
- the front wheel legs and the rear wheel legs are capable of swinging to such positions that the wheels overlap one another in a direction orthogonal to the advancing direction.
A control apparatus, wherein
- the control apparatus controls a moving body including four or more legs that have wheels at ends thereof and are able to be controlled along two or more axes, and a body supported at the four or more legs, and
- the control apparatus swings two or more front wheel legs out of the four or more legs that are capable of swinging forward in an advancing direction of the body and two or more rear wheel legs out of the four or more legs that are capable of swinging backward in the advancing direction of the body to such positions that the wheels overlap one another in a direction orthogonal to the advancing direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.