SELF-TRAVELING MOVING OBJECT AND METHOD FOR SETTING TARGET POSITION OF THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carrier to which the stop position and attitude of a carrier body in unloading can be taught in a practical environment. SOLUTION: A user operates the carrier using a joystick and collects geometric data of an environment obtained by a laser distance sensor, provided to the carrier and the button depression data of the joystick corresponding to setting of an unloading position. By having time-series geometric data obtained by the collection match with each other to find out the position and attitude of each piece of geometric data with the measurement start time of the sensor as a reference. Whether each piece of geometric data is associated with the button depression data corresponding to the setting of the unloading position is checked; and when the geometric data are associated with one another, the position and attitude of the geometric data are calculated as the unloading position and attitude of the carrier. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT