US 12,248,324 B2
Conveyance robot
Kazumi Serizawa, Toyota (JP); Hidekazu Sasaki, Yokohama (JP); Daisuke Sato, Toyota (JP); and Shunsuke Mogi, Chofu (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jul. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/861,874.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-133567 (JP), filed on Aug. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0058651 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01)
CPC G05D 1/0234 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0238 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyance robot comprising:
a main body at which a conveyed object can be placed;
a driving wheel provided at the main body;
an imaging device;
a memory that stores a program; and
a processor coupled to the memory,
wherein the processor executes the program to:
control the driving wheel such that a progress direction of the conveyance robot is configured to match an extension direction of a running path guide portion, the running path guide portion extending along a running path that is along a wall face of a vertical wall disposed in a building,
detect the running path guide portion with the imaging device, the running path guide portion extending in a vertical direction of the wall face, as viewed in a horizontal direction, and
move the driving wheel in the vertical direction along the running path guide portion so as to move the main body in the vertical direction along the wall face of the vertical wall.