US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "Robot control system, robot control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,869, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Robot control system, robot control method, and program" was invented by Yuta Watanabe (Toyota, Japan), Shiro Oda (Toyota, Japan), Kei Yoshikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Yukinori Kurahashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control system according to an embodiment is configured to control a mobile robot configured to autonomously move by referring to a map, the robot control system being further configured to: acquire a distance to a nearby object measured by using a range sensor; specify a position of the nearby object on the map according t...