US 11,914,397 B2
Robot control system, robot control method, and program
Shiro Oda, Anjo (JP); Tetsuya Taira, Nagakute (JP); Satoshi Toyoshima, Okazaki (JP); Yuta Watanabe, Toyota (JP); Takeshi Matsui, Nisshin (JP); Takayoshi Nasu, Okazaki (JP); Kei Yoshikawa, Nagoya (JP); Yusuke Ota, Nagakute (JP); Yutaro Ishida, Toyota (JP); Yuji Onuma, Toyota (JP); and Kyosuke Arai, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/545,390.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-018577 (JP), filed on Feb. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0253072 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0287 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1666 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0206 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
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1. A robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that autonomously move in a facility, such that a distance from a peripheral object does not fall below a threshold distance, wherein:
the robot control system acquires information on a standby area set in map information of the facility; and
the robot control system changes the threshold distance in accordance with the number of the mobile robots standing by in the standby area;
wherein the robot control system reduces the threshold distance in accordance with the number of the mobile robots standing by in the standby area and the expected arrival number of the mobile robots moving toward the standby area.