A mobile apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of imaging
devices, a measurement device for measuring a current position and
direction of the imaging devices, a map data storing section which stores
map data including at least registered information on positions of
stationary objects, a recognized distance calculating section which
obtains a parallax for a plurality of images, a reference distance
calculating section which calculates a reference distance from the
imaging devices to a front border of each stationary object, a retracting
section for determining a range of image processing, which selects a set
of pixels to be processed so as to generate a retracted image, a
detecting section for detecting objects from the retracted image, a
transport device, and a transport controller for controlling movement of
the transport device according to information about the objects detected
by the detecting section.