AUTONOMOUS WORKING ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS WORKING ROBOT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous working robot enabling a person therearound to easily determine what is the obstacle detected by the robot.;SOLUTION: This autonomous working robot comprises an environmental information acquiring part for acquiring peripheral environmental information, a control part for controlling the autonomous operation according to the environmental information acquired by the environmental information acquiring part, and an operation part the operation of which is controlled by the control part. The autonomous working robot further comprises an obstacle recognition part for detecting objects present around the robot according to the acquired environmental information and recognizing an object, among the detected objects, which affects the operation part to normally operate the operation part, and an output part for visually outputting obstacle specifying information for specifying the obstacle recognized by the obstacle recognizing part to the outside.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT