Abstract: An accompanying mobile body in which a response to an abrupt change in a traveling direction of a user is restrained from being delayed. A movement state recognition section recognizes a moving direction and a moving speed of a user. A predicted location calculation section calculates a predicted location of the user after a first predetermined time period based on the moving direction and the moving speed of the user. An accompanying control section performs accompanying control to cause an accompanying mobile body to move by a traveling unit toward a target location of accompanying that is a location apart from the predicted location by a specified distance in a specified direction.

Abstract: An air cleaner includes a base member including a base wall extending substantially horizontally, and a cover member attached to an upper side of the base wall to jointly define a filter chamber for receiving a filter element therein. The air cleaner further includes a passage member communicating with the filter chamber and incorporated with a plurality of air ejection pipes each surrounded by an annular air inlet passage fitted with guide vanes for rotating the air flow, and a case member defining separation chambers for separating dust from the rotating air flow. The passage member is interposed between the cover member and the case member.

Abstract: An information providing device includes an information acquisition part configured to acquire environment information which indicates a growth environment of grass in a predetermined area and state information which indicates a growth state of the grass in the predetermined area, and an information generating part configured to determine a good area which indicates an area in which the growth state of the grass in the predetermined area is good and a bad area which indicates an area in which the growth state of the grass in the predetermined area is bad based on the state information, and configured to generate management information which indicates a content of treatments to be performed with respect to the good area and the bad area based on the environment information.

Abstract: An autonomous work system includes a first work machine configured to have a communication unit, a plurality of second work machines having different functions configured to have communication units, a setting device configured to store work schedule information indicating work schedule content, performance of the first work machine, and performance of the plurality of second work machines and to have a communication unit, and a terminal configured to have a communication unit and a notification unit. The first work machine acquires a state of work performed by the host device and transmits detection result information indicating the acquired state of work to the setting device.

Abstract: An autonomous work machine includes a detection unit configured to detect a person present in an advancing direction of an own apparatus, a notification unit configured to perform a first notification on the detected person, a reaction detection unit configured to detect a reaction of the person when the first notification is performed, and a control unit configured to determine whether or not a notification from the notification unit is continued on the basis of the detected reaction, and select a second notification different from the first notification on the basis of the detected reaction and cause the notification unit to perform the second notification in a case where it is determined that the notification is continued.

Abstract: A mower includes: a cutting part which is able to cut grass; a machine body which includes the cutting part and a cover configured to cover the cutting part from above; and a state control part which controls a state of at least one of the cutting part and the cover such that at least one of grass in a space provided between the cutting part and the cover and grass outside the cover is able to be cut in the cutting part in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A control device and a working machine capable of improving the position accuracy of map data as compared with the related art is provided. There is provided a control device which is configured to acquire information which is output from a working machine which includes a working part and works along a boundary between a working area and a non-working area. The control device includes an operating state acquisition part configured to acquire information indicating an operating state of a machine body of the working machine; a judgment part configured to determine the operating state of the machine body, based on information acquired by the operating state acquisition part; a position information acquisition part configured to acquire position information indicating a position of the machine body; and a storage control part configured to store the position information acquired by the position information acquisition part in the storage, based on a determination result of the judgment part.

Abstract: A control system including a charging station, a plurality of autonomous work machines, and a control apparatus configured to control the plurality of autonomous work machines, wherein the control apparatus comprises: an obtain unit configured to obtaining power information of each autonomous work machine; and a control unit configured to control each autonomous work machine based on the power information such that charging timings of the autonomous work machines at the charging station do not match each other.

Abstract: A work machine that operates based on an image of a camera, comprising: a plurality of cameras; a detection unit configured to detect a failure or a trouble in one of the plurality of cameras; a distance obtaining unit configured to, if the failure or the trouble is not detected, obtain distance information between the work machine and an object based on images with a parallax which are captured by the plurality of cameras, and if the failure is detected, obtaining the distance information based on an image captured by another camera in which the failure or the trouble is not detected; and a control unit configured to control the work machine based on the distance information obtained by the distance obtaining unit.

Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to acquire individual information indicating a state of a predetermined member of a work machine configured to execute work using the predetermined member, and instruct a state adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the state to adjust the state so that a difference between the state indicated by the individual information and a reference value of the state common to other work machines is reduced.

Abstract: An autonomous work machine that includes a camera configured to capture an image of an external world, comprises an obtainment unit configured to obtain, based on date and time information, azimuth information of the sun, and imaging date and time information of the autonomous work machine, sun information that indicates one of a position and an azimuth of the sun in which backlighting can occur while the autonomous work machine is traveling in a work area, and a control unit configured to set, based on the sun information obtained by the obtainment unit, tracks by which the autonomous work machine will avoid backlighting.

Abstract: An autonomous work machine that performs a work in a working area defined by a marker, comprising: a camera; a detection unit configured to detect the marker from a captured image of the camera; and a control unit configured to, if the marker deviates from a detection range of the detection unit, control at least one of a traveling speed and a traveling direction of the autonomous work machine.

Abstract: An autonomous work machine that works on a target object in a work area while performing an autonomous travel operation in the work area, comprises an obtainment unit configured to obtain a distribution the target object of the work, a determination unit configured to determine a turn direction of the autonomous work machine in accordance with the distribution of the target object, and a control unit configured to control the autonomous work machine so that the autonomous work machine will turn in the turn direction at a turn timing during the autonomous travel operation.

Abstract: An autonomous work machine that includes a camera configured to capture an image of an external world, comprises a determination unit configured to determine, based on an image captured by the camera, whether backlighting has occurred, and a control unit configured to control, in a case in which the determination unit has determined that the backlighting has occurred, the autonomous work machine so as to avoid the backlighting.

Abstract: An autonomous work machine for automatically performing a work on a work area while moving in the work area, includes an image capturing unit configured to capture the work area; and a control unit configured to specify, based on an image of the work area captured by the image capturing unit, contents of a failure having occurred in the work area, and control the autonomous work machine based on the specified contents of the failure.

Abstract: The air cleaner (32) comprises a base member (41) including a base wall (41A) extending substantially horizontally, and a cover member (42) attached to an upper side of the base wall to jointly define a filter chamber (70) for receiving a filter element (43) therein. The air cleaner further includes a passage member (44) communicating with the filter chamber and incorporated with a plurality of air ejection pipes (44C) each surrounded by an annular air inlet passage (44E) fitted with guide vanes (44D) for rotating the air flow, and a case member (45) defining separation chambers (45C) for separating dust from the rotating air flow. The passage member (44) is interposed between the cover member (42) and the case member (45).

Abstract: An autonomously traveling device and/or vehicle capable of autonomously traveling in front of a person and enhancing crime prevention and reliability. The autonomously traveling device includes a distance sensor and a camera (person detection sensor) that detect at least a behavior of the person and a distance from the person, and a control unit that controls the autonomously traveling device based on detected information from the distance sensor and the camera.

Abstract: A work system comprising a first autonomous work machine and a second autonomous work machine, wherein the first autonomous work machine includes: a detection unit configured to detect dirt on the second autonomous work machine; and a notification unit configured to, if the detection unit detects dirt, notify the second autonomous work machine of dirt information indicating the detection of the dirt, and the second autonomous work machine removes the dirt or waits in a predetermined position in response to the notification of the dirt information by the notification unit.

Abstract: A cleaning system includes a mower that executes a mowing work while traveling autonomously, and a cleaning station that cleans the mower. The cleaning system includes: an acquirer that acquires dirt information relating to a state of dirt of the mower; a determiner that determines at least one of a necessity of cleaning the mower and a method of cleaning the mower, based on the dirt information; and a first cleaning executor that executes a cleaning operation, according to a determination result of the determiner.

Abstract: A mower executes a mowing work while traveling autonomously. Furthermore, the mower includes a mower main body and a first controller that controls an operation of the mower main body so that the mower main body is washed with tap water that is supplied from a washing station. The mower includes, for example, a work unit that executes the mowing work, and the first controller operates the work unit so that the mower main body is washed.