An autonomous traveling apparatus includes a traveling body. The traveling body includes a first wheel portion and a second wheel portion each provided along a traveling direction of the autonomous traveling apparatus in the traveling body with a predetermined space being interposed between the first wheel portion and the second wheel portion. The second wheel portion has a pair of wheels. The autonomous traveling apparatus further includes a laser sensor. The laser sensor is configured to detect an object around the laser sensor, and is provided on the traveling body to avoid a portion above each of the pair of wheels such that a scanning plane is lower than a maximum reach point of a range of an upward/downward movement of each of the pair of wheels, the scanning plane being a range in which the laser light passes while rotating the laser light.

A concrete surface processing machine (100) for processing a concrete surface, wherein the concrete surface processing machine is arranged to be supported on the concrete surface by one or more support elements (150) extending in a base plane (101) of the machine parallel to the concrete surface, wherein the concrete surface processing machine comprises a control unit (110) connected to at least one linear photo sensor (130) extending transversally to the base plane (101), and wherein the control unit (110) is arranged to detect a height (h) of an incoming laser beam (H) relative to the base plane (101), based on a point of incidence of the incoming laser beam (H) on the linear photo sensor (130).

A system used in a factory for manufacture of a moving object comprises: a remote controller that moves the moving object by remote control, the moving object being movable in the factory during a course of manufacture in the factory, the moving object including a communication device having a communication function for the remote control and a driving controller that implements driving control over the moving object; a manufacturing status acquisition unit that acquires information about a manufacturing status in the factory including delay in a step; and a speed setting unit that sets a moving speed of the moving object using the acquired manufacturing status. The remote controller moves the moving object in a transport zone between steps at the set moving speed of the moving object by the remote control.

A mobile autonomous manufacturing system including an autonomously mobile main device (10) performing a manufacturing task, a first auxiliary device (11) adapted to autonomously supply energy to the main device (10), a second auxiliary device (12), adapted to autonomously supply manufacturing items to the main device (10). A method for operating such a mobile autonomous manufacturing system, in which the auxiliary devices (11,12) move autonomously to and from the main device (10) and synchronously with the main device (10) when supplying the main device (10).

An automatic driving system allows a vehicle with a higher shipment priority to be transported preferentially, by controlling transport of each of several vehicles in any of steps from production to shipment includes: a priority acquisition unit configured to acquire a shipment priority set for each vehicle; and a control instruction unit configured to determine control content for at least some of the vehicles using the priority acquired by the priority acquisition unit such that a vehicle of the several vehicles that is given a first priority is transported in preference to another vehicle of the several vehicles that is given a second priority lower than the first priority, and to instruct the at least some of several vehicles on the control content. Each vehicle includes a driving control unit configured to execute driving control according to instructions from the control instruction unit.

A controller used in a system that moves a moving object by remote control comprises: a whereabouts determination unit, if a first detection unit provided at the system detects a target person, the whereabouts determination unit determining whereabouts of the target person on the basis of a detection result of the target person by the first detection unit; a moving object specification unit that specifies the moving object being controlled by the remote control and likely to approach the target person on the basis of the determined whereabouts; and a signal transmission unit that transmits a control signal to the specified moving object. The control signal is a signal for changing a driving mode of the moving object to an alert mode for giving an alert against the target person.

In a factory, a control device for controlling an operation of a moving body of at least a part of a plurality of types of moving bodies includes a first-type moving body and a second-type moving body having a time required for a process set in advance in a factory longer than that of the first-type moving body, wherein the control instruction creating unit creates a control instruction so as to adjust a distance between the moving body and the succeeding moving body in a process before entering the process set in advance, and the control instruction creating unit creates a control instruction so that a second distance that is an inter-moving-body distance in a case where the preceding moving body is the second-type moving body is larger than a first distance that is an inter-moving-body distance in a case where the preceding moving body is the first-type moving body.

A moving object comprises an unmanned driving mode that has at least one of a first driving mode in which the moving object moving by autonomous control and a second driving mode in which the moving object moving by remote control: an on-moving object device mounted on the moving object; and a moving object control device configured to control an operation of the moving object, wherein the moving object control device includes: a device identification information acquisition unit that acquires device identification information, which is identification information of the on-moving object device; a moving object identification information acquisition unit that acquires moving object identification information, which is identification information of the moving object; and a transmission unit that transmits the device identification information and the moving object identification information to a server device.

A UAV includes a body and rotor coupled to the body. The UAV may include a boom coupled to the body, and a nozzle coupled to a distal end of the boom, wherein an operational configuration of the nozzle is responsive to a second control signal. The rotor, boom, and nozzle are arranged such that the nozzle is disposed further away from the body than the rotor. The UAV may further include a sensor disposed on either the body or the boom, wherein the sensor is configured to generate a detection signal associated with a distance between the sensor and a surface disposed proximate to the sensor.

A control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result by a detector, wherein the detector is mounted on a moving object movable by unmanned driving; a determination unit configured to determine a landmark to be detected by the detector, wherein the landmark is located outside the moving object; and a control unit configured to move the moving object by unmanned driving, wherein the control unit performs different processing for moving the moving object depending on whether or not the landmark determined by the determination unit is included in the detection result.