Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coiled cord capable of increasing the length of a cable while preventing a winding diameter of the coiled cord in a plane orthogonal to the direction in which the coiled cord is extended and contracted in a natural state from increasing. A first exemplary aspect is a coiled cord around which a cable is wound, the cable being capable of being freely extended and contracted, the coiled cord including: a first layer in which the cable is wound from an inner side of the coiled cord to an outer side thereof in a radial direction, and a second layer in which the cable is wound from the outer side of the coiled cord to the inner side thereof in the radial direction, in which the first and the second layers are continuously connected to each other.

Abstract: The traveling unit main body and the accommodation unit are adapted to be uncoupled and re-coupled. The traveling unit main body includes a first driving unit and a second driving unit configured to perform at least one of operations of taking out or storing the article from or in the accommodation unit and transporting the article taken out from the accommodation unit. The traveling unit main body performs at least one of the operations of taking out, storing, and transporting the article using the first driving unit and the second driving unit in a state in which the traveling unit main body and the accommodation unit are uncoupled.

Abstract: A first exemplary aspect is a delivery shelf includes: a housing; and a plurality of pairs of supports extended inside the housing in a depth direction thereof and arranged inside the housing at regular intervals in a height direction thereof. The delivery shelf is capable of housing all of returnable containers for delivery of a plurality of predefined sizes along the plurality of respective pairs of supports, and is installed in a house.

Abstract: The plurality of passage areas include a first passage area and a second passage area, the first passage area being a passage area for which a traveling condition for a transportation vehicle carrying an object to be transported is specified, and a second passage area being a passage area for which a traveling condition for restricting traveling of the transportation vehicle more strictly than in the first passage area is specified. The traffic management system includes a traffic management unit configured to change a regulation in at least a part of the second passage area in regard to the permission/prohibition of the traveling of the transportation vehicle based on at least one of information about a demand for the object to be transported and information about a traffic environment.

Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a placement part, an arm configured to extend from and retract into the placement part in a horizontal direction, and a control unit configured to control a movement of the arm. The control unit moves a tip of the arm into a groove formed in a bottom surface of an object supported from underneath thereof, and then the control unit returns the tip of the arm hooked in the groove to the placement part, or the control unit moves the tip of the arm hooked in a groove formed in a bottom surface of an object placed on the placement part toward a rack configured to support the object from underneath thereof.

Abstract: A management system, a management method, and a program capable of reducing occurrence of delivery failures by an autonomous mobile robot are provided. The management system is a management system configured to manage a delivery by an autonomous mobile robot that delivers a package to a delivery destination, the management system including: an environment information acquisition unit configured to acquire environment information, which is information regarding an environment that inhibits a delivery by the autonomous mobile robot in the vicinity of the delivery destination; and a delivery determination unit configured to determine whether or not to cause the autonomous mobile robot to deliver the package to the delivery destination based on the environment information.

Abstract: A planning system, a planning method, and a program capable of efficiently collecting collection target objects are provided. The planning system is a system for making a plan to collect collection target objects from a collection site, and includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire, using a sensor, collection target object information, which is information regarding the types and the amounts of the collection target objects that are present in the collection site; and a plan generation unit configured to generate a plan to collect the collection target objects based on the collection target object information.

Abstract: A risk of theft is reduced in transportation by an autonomous mobile body. A route determination system according to the present disclosure determines a transport route of an article to be transported by an autonomous mobile body. The route determination system according to the present disclosure includes a judgement unit that judges whether or not an area including a position of a person is dangerous based on position information of the person and a credit rank of the person and a route determination unit that determines, as the transport route, a bypass route for bypassing a dangerous area when a candidate of the transport route passes through the dangerous area judged to be dangerous by the judgement unit.

Abstract: A delivery system includes an autonomously-moving-type delivery vehicle configured to deliver an article to a delivery destination thereof, and a transportation vehicle configured to carry and transport the delivery vehicle. A control unit configured to control an operation of the delivery vehicle acquires information about an acceleration of the transportation vehicle from the transportation vehicle, and controls the operation of the delivery vehicle based on the information about the acceleration so that a displacement that is predicted to occur in the delivery vehicle due to the acceleration of the transportation vehicle is reduced.

Abstract: A route determination system according to the present disclosure determines a transport route of an article from among a plurality of candidates. Autonomous mobile bodies for transporting the article on the plurality of candidates are different from each other. The route determination system includes a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of the plurality of candidates, a theft risk based on a degree of theft easiness and a time required for the transportation by the autonomous mobile body, the degree of theft easiness representing likelihood of an occurrence of theft in the autonomous mobile body, and the theft risk representing a magnitude of a risk of the occurrence of the theft, and a determination unit configured to determine the transport route from among the plurality of candidates so that the theft risk is reduced based on the theft risk calculated by the calculation unit.

Abstract: A route determination system according to the present disclosure determines a transport route of an article from among a plurality of candidates. The transport route includes a first transport section for transporting the article on by a first autonomous mobile body and a second transport section for transporting the article on by a second autonomous mobile body smaller than the first autonomous mobile body. The second autonomous mobile body is mounted on the first autonomous mobile body in the first transport section. The system includes a judgement unit configured to judge whether or not weather is suitable for traveling of the second autonomous mobile body based on weather information along the transport route and a determination unit configured to determine the transport route from among the plurality of candidates so that a length of the second transport section becomes short when it is judged that the weather is not suitable.

Abstract: A delivery system includes an autonomously-moving-type delivery vehicle configured to deliver an article, and a transportation vehicle configured to carry and transport the delivery vehicle, in which the delivery system is configured so that after the transportation vehicle carrying the delivery vehicle travels toward a delivery destination of the article, the delivery vehicle gets out of the transportation vehicle and delivers the article to the delivery destination. The delivery system makes a computer perform processes including determining whether or not the delivery vehicle can get out of the traveling transportation vehicle based on a situation of the transportation vehicle, and making the delivery vehicle get out of the transportation vehicle only when it is determined that the delivery vehicle can get out of the transportation vehicle.

Abstract: A transport system, a transport method, and a program capable of selecting an appropriate support position when a target object is supported and lifted by an autonomous mobile robot are provided. The transport system supports and transports a target object by an autonomous mobile robot, the transport system including: a marker position specifying unit configured to specify a position of a marker attached to a target object; and an operation controller configured to determine a support position of the target object based on the position of the marker that has been specified.

Abstract: A route determination system determines a transport route for an autonomous mobile body to transport an article from among a plurality of candidates. The system includes an acquisition unit that acquires setting information related to necessity of at least one of cooling retention and heat retention of the article and an extraction unit that extracts, for each of the plurality of candidates, a low-temperature environment part in which a temperature in a delivery environment of the article along the candidate is estimated to be lower than temperatures of other parts of the candidate when the setting information about the cool retention is acquired, and a route determination unit that determines the transport route from among the plurality of candidates so that the temperature in the delivery environment of the article becomes low based on a length of the low-temperature environment part.

Abstract: A transportation management system according to an aspect is a transportation management system configured to manage transportation of a testing apparatus for diagnosing a health condition of a user by using a computer. A reservation for a test that a user undergoes is received, and a testing apparatus to be transported to the user is determined based on the reservation. The testing apparatus is transported to the user, and the user is diagnosed by using the testing apparatus.

Abstract: A delivery system configured to put an article into a freight-and-passenger vehicle, which travels according to an operation schedule, and transport the article by the freight-and-passenger vehicle, and then unload the article from the freight-and-passenger vehicle and deliver the article to a delivery destination is provided. The freight-and-passenger vehicle is configured to cause a computer to perform processes of notifying a passenger on the freight-and-passenger vehicle transporting the article of a request for requesting the passenger to deliver the article from a stop place where the article is unloaded to a delivery destination thereof, and giving an incentive to the passenger who has undertaken the request after the passenger has delivered the article.

Abstract: The delivery management system stores identification information identifying an article to be delivered to a user and storage place information indicating a storage place of the article in a living space of the user while associating the identification information and the storage place information with each other, and reads the identification information attached to the article and extracts the storage place information associated with the identification information when the article arrives at a delivery destination.

Abstract: An extension/contraction mechanism in which an extension/contraction part is able to turn is provided. An extension/contraction mechanism according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first drive source connected to a sending/pulling part so as to be able to transmit a drive force, and a second drive source connected to the sending/pulling part and a turning part that rotatably supports the sending/pulling part so as to be able to transmit a drive force via a gear group. When a rotational speed transmitted to the sending/pulling part to rotate the sending/pulling part by the first drive source is equal to a rotational speed transmitted to the sending/pulling part to rotate the sending/pulling part by the second drive source, an extension/contraction part turns via the turning part. When the above rotational speeds are different from each other, the extension/contraction part is extended or contracted.

Abstract: An extension/contraction mechanism capable of preventing a swing of an extension/contraction part when it is extended or contracted is provided. An extension/contraction mechanism according to one aspect of the present disclosure is an extension/contraction mechanism including a telescopic extension/contraction part and a base part that supports the extension/contraction part so that it can be extended/contracted, in which the extension/contraction mechanism includes a support part that contacts an inner peripheral surface or an outer peripheral surface of the extension/contraction part in order to prevent a wobble in a root part of the extension/contraction part with respect to the base part, and the support part is provided on a side surface of the base part that is opposed to the inner peripheral surface or the outer peripheral surface of the extension/contraction part that the support part contacts.

Abstract: To make it possible to freely move a moving body between level surfaces located at different heights that are not connected by a vertical member. A moving body includes a movable moving part, an expansion/contraction part disposed in the moving part and configured to expand and contract in a vertical direction, a first engagement part disposed at a tip of the expansion/contraction part and configured to engage with a member located in a surrounding environment, and a control unit configured to control the moving part and the expansion/contraction part. The control unit moves the moving part to a target height position by engaging the first engagement part with a member located at the target height position and then expanding or contracting the expansion/contraction part.