摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system that uses a cart robot for guiding a user to the required location at a shopping center, and the like. <P>SOLUTION: In the system for guiding the user to a shopping route, a management server stores information on locations of merchandise shelves, congestion information from cameras in a shop and route information from the cart robot, and transmits the information to the cart robot. The cart robot generates a route plan that minimizes the distances among the locations of the target merchandise shelves, based on the information on the locations of the merchandise shelves, moves a cart in accordance with the route, and automatically implements a steering operation, when a corner is detected. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |