Patent ID: 7660665

Claim:
An autonomous mobile equipment designed to autonomously move in an environment in which an object other than the autonomous mobile equipment is present, and provided with a position-of-object and own position detecting system and a moving means, the position-of-object and own position detecting system including: a position measuring means for measuring information on the object; a traveling planning means for planning a traveling route along which the autonomous mobile equipment travels; a database in which information on the object placed in the environment is recorded; and a collating means for collating the information on the object acquired by the position measuring means with the information on the object recorded in the database, wherein: the position measuring means irradiates radiation to the object and radially scans the radiation so as to measure a relative angle, at which the autonomous mobile equipment meets the object, and a relative distance to the object, and thus detects the superficial shape of the object; the database records, in advance, binary information on the superficial shape with a pattern of irregularities of the object placed in the environment using a predetermined unit length as a reference, position information of the object placed in the environment, attribute information of the object laced in the environment, and data that associates the positional information on the object, the information on the shape of the object and attribute data with one another according to the superficial shape of the object; the collating means produces binary information on the superficial shape of the object detected by the position measuring means using the predetermined unit length as a reference, recomposes the produced binary information into binary information associated with the unit length, converts the recomposed binary information into binary data devoid of space data, and collates the converted binary information with the binary information on the superficial shape of the object recorded in the database; the information on the object recorded in the database is transmitted to the traveling planning means in case where the collated superficial shapes agree with each other; the information on the object acquired by the position measuring means is transmitted to the traveling planning means in case where the collated superficial shapes disagree with each other; and the traveling planning means plans a traveling route, along which the autonomous mobile equipment travels, on the basis of the information on the object sent from the collating means.