INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS MOVING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: TOYOURA, Masataka, NABETA, Masaomi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.01.2021
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; REGULATING; SIGNALLING; SURVEYING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TESTING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

An autonomous mobile device is implemented that adjusts a sensor rate according to a situation, and enables both reduction of power consumption and processing resources, and safe traveling. The autonomous mobile device includes: a sensor; a sensor information analysis unit that generates sensor analysis information by inputting output information from the sensor; an action plan determination unit that generates an action plan by inputting the sensor analysis information; a sensor rate calculation unit that calculates an optimal sensor rate of the sensor on the basis of at least one of the sensor analysis information or the action plan information; and a sensor control unit that adjusts either a sensing rate of the sensor or an output rate of sensor output information to the optimal sensor rate.