US 12,311,539 B2
Information processing apparatus and control method
Muneyuki Horiguchi, Tokyo (JP); Takeo Sakurada, Tokyo (JP); Ippei Yamakoshi, Tokyo (JP); and Shravan Tangudu, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/636,183
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/027950
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/039194, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-155102 (JP), filed on Aug. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0288770 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. B25J 5/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 5/007 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0221 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
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1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
an autonomous mobile body configured to move in an inverted state; and
an operation control unit configured to control an operation of the autonomous mobile body, wherein
the autonomous mobile body includes:
a main body;
two wheels on the main body, wherein
each wheel of the two wheels includes a columnar surface, and
each wheel of the two wheels includes at least one protrusion around the columnar surface; and
a drive mechanism configured to drive the two wheels,
the operation control unit is further configured to control the drive mechanism to maintain the inverted state of the autonomous mobile body by the two wheels,
a top surface of the protrusion comes into contact with a flat surface based on placement of the autonomous mobile body on the flat surface,
a width of a first wheel of the two wheels is ¼ or more of a total width of the two wheels, and
a width of the protrusion of the first wheel in a width direction of the two wheels is one of equal to or less than 60% of the width of the first wheel.