OBJECT RANGE ESTIMATION METHOD, OBJECT RANGE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND ROBOT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the possibility of contact with an object even when only a part of the object can be observed.SOLUTION: The object range estimation method comprises: an observation step of observing a surrounding object in an observation range restricted to a predetermined range; an identification step of identifying a range that can be taken by the object using a part of the object observed in the observation step as a criterion on the basis of the shape of the object shown by object shape data stored in a storage part; and an integration step of integrating a range that can be taken by an object newly identified in the identification step and the range that can be taken by the object recognized at present to update the integrated result as a range that can be taken by the object recognized at present.