Abstract: An apparatus may comprise a plurality of wheels, a body coupled to the plurality of wheels, and a controller configured to determine an angular velocity of the body with respect to a ground surface, and control, based on the angular velocity, a rotational speed of the plurality of wheels.

Abstract: An embodiment wheel base includes a first base including a first wheel, a second base including a second wheel and coupled to the first base, a locking unit including a driving part and a fixing part operated by the driving part and selectively coupled to a plurality of fixing reception parts in the second base for coupling between the first and second bases, and a processor electrically connected to the locking unit, wherein, in response to receiving a base length adjustment command, the processor initializes a position value of the driving part acquired by a position value acquisition part, drives the driving part to achieve an unlocked state, and in response to an absolute value of the position value of the driving part acquired after the driving part is driven being less than or equal to a first reference position value, determines that an unlocking failure has occurred.

Abstract: A robot includes a body, a pair of wheels rotatably provided at a lower part of the body, a cargo box provided at an upper part of the body, an inertial measurement sensor configured to measure a tilt angle of the body, a pair of wheel encoders configured to measure a rotational angle of each of the pair of wheels, a cargo box encoder configured to measure a tilt angle of the cargo box, a pair of wheel motors configured to transmit a torque to each of the pair of wheels, a cargo box motor configured to transmit a torque to the cargo box, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the pair of wheel motors and the cargo box motor to allow the robot to make a double axis inverted pendulum motion on an axis of each of the pair of wheels and the cargo box.

Abstract: A mobile apparatus is provided. The mobile apparatus may include: a body including a material of which a shape is reversibly deformable; a first link rotatably coupled to the body; a second link having one side rotatably coupled to the first link and the other side rotatably coupled to the body; a first shaft provided in a region, in which the first link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the first link and the body; a second shaft provided in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the first link, and inserted into the first link and the second link; and a third shaft provided in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the second link and the body.

Abstract: A wheel includes a deformable part reversibly deformable in shape by an external force, wherein the deformable part includes an inner region having a shape extending in a peripheral direction, an outer region having a shape extending in the peripheral direction and spaced apart outward from the inner region in a radial direction, and a spoke region provided between the inner region and the outer region and having a first side connected to the inner region and a second side connected to the outer region. The spoke region includes a first spoke region having a section protruding in a first of two peripheral directions and a second spoke region disposed at a first side of the first spoke region based on a second of the two peripheral directions opposite the first peripheral direction, wherein the second spoke region has a section protruding in the second peripheral direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile object including a body part, a drive part coupled to one side of the body part and including one or more wheels, and an accommodation part coupled to the other side of the body part and having an internal space capable of accommodating an article, in which the drive part is coupled to a lower region of the body part, and the body part is rotatably coupled to the drive part, and in which the accommodation part is coupled to an upper region of the body part, and the accommodation part rotatably coupled to the body part.

Abstract: An embodiment wheel includes a frame configured to rotate about an axial direction, an absorber coupled to a side of the frame in a radially outward direction, and a connector connecting the absorber and the frame, wherein a first portion of the connector is configured to be movable along the radially outward direction and a radially inward direction of the frame, and a second portion of the connector is configured to be rotatable on a plane that crosses the axial direction.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling driving of a moving object that climbs up or down stairs comprises a tilt sensor configured to sense a slope of the moving object in a pitch direction, and a processor configured to reduce a speed of the moving object in a specific section while the moving object climbs up or down the stairs, based on the sensed slope.

Abstract: A delivery robot control apparatus for controlling a delivery robot to unload an object and a method thereof are disclosed. A camera is provided in the delivery robot having an internal loading space for one or more floors and obtains an image including a door module which is provided in the delivery robot and connected to a frame forming the internal loading space. The controller determines up and low positions of the door module based on the image, and controls a first motor to move the door module to a target position based on the determined up or low position of the door module.

Abstract: An embodiment mobile object includes a frame part having an internal space, a wheel part coupled to a first side of the frame part and comprising a wheel, movable modules coupled to a second side of the frame part and configured to be movable in a vertical direction relative to the frame part, and a door module coupled to a first side of the movable modules, the door part being rotatable relative to the movable modules in a direction toward the internal space or a direction away from the internal space.