564results about "Position/course control in two dimensions" patented technology

A robot in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes a neck region through which the robot is configured to transmit and receive light. The robot defines a robot height and includes a body, a head carried by the body, and a neck extending between the head and the body along the robot height. The robot further includes a structural neck frame at a periphery of the neck in a plane perpendicular to the robot height. The structural neck frame defines windows distributed around the periphery of the neck. The robot further includes a sensor disposed at least partially within the structural neck frame. The sensor includes a laser configured to transmit light via the windows and a detector configured to receive light via the windows. A field of view of the sensor extends at least 320 degrees around the neck.

A semantic sensing system includes a processor, a memory, a plurality of wireless communication enabled devices and at least one sensing element, the memory storing a plurality of mapped endpoints wherein the processor is configured to apply semantic drift or entropy to determine non-affirmative circumstances based on inputs from the at least one sensing element to cause the system to perform semantic augmentation towards a first endpoint supervisor in relation with the non-affirmative determinations.

An unmanned vehicle management system includes: an inter-vehicle distance determination unit that determines an inter-vehicle distance between a sprinkling vehicle and an unmanned vehicle traveling behind the sprinkling vehicle in a same direction as that of the sprinkling vehicle based on a sprinkling state from a sprinkling spray provided in the sprinkling vehicle traveling in a work site; and an output unit that outputs, to the unmanned vehicle, inter-vehicle distance data indicating the inter-vehicle distance determined by the inter-vehicle distance determination unit.

A concrete surface processing machine (100) for processing a concrete surface, wherein the concrete surface processing machine is arranged to be supported on the concrete surface by one or more support elements (150) extending in a base plane (101) of the machine parallel to the concrete surface, wherein the concrete surface processing machine is arranged to rotate (R) about an axis (C) normal to the base plane (101) by the one or more support elements (150), wherein the concrete surface processing machine comprises control unit (110) connected to at least one laser range finder (120) arranged pointing in a fixed direction from the concrete surface processing machine, and wherein the control unit (110) is arranged to determine a boundary geometry of the concrete surface based on a sequence of ranges obtained by the laser range finder (120).

A communication system may include a robotic garden tool with an electronic processor that may be configured to determine (i) a plurality of relative distances between the robotic garden tool and an object as the object moves in the operating area, and (ii) one or more locations of the robotic garden tool as the object moves in the operating area. The electronic processor may be further configured to determine a respective location of the one or more locations of the robotic garden tool at a respective time at which data was captured that allowed for the determination of each relative distance of the plurality of relative distances. A virtual boundary may be generated using each relative distance in combination with the respective location of the robotic garden tool at the respective time at which the data was captured that allowed for the determination of each relative distance.

To provide an attached posture detection device, an attached posture detection method, and an attached posture detection program with which it is possible to detect the attached posture of a distance measuring device attached to various devices, without using an apparatus for posture detection such as an inclination sensor or a level gauge.SOLUTION: An attached posture detection device 10 comprises a distance information acquisition unit 11, an angle information acquisition unit 12, and an attached posture detection unit 14. The distance information acquisition unit 11 acquires distance information to reference points P1, P2 on a floor surface FL in accordance with a phase difference between the received light wave and projected light wave of light with which the floor surface FL is irradiated from a lighting unit 21 that is included in a TOF sensor 20. The angle information acquisition unit 12 acquires angle information to the reference points P1, P2. The attached posture detection unit 14 detects the attached posture of the TOF sensor 20 to the floor surface FL on the basis of the distance information and angle information acquired by the distance information acquisition unit 11 and the angle information acquisition unit 12.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

A method of configuring robot fleets with additive manufacturing capabilities includes receiving a request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and determining a job definition data structure based on the request. The job definition data structure defines a set of tasks to be performed in furtherance of the job. The method includes determining a provisioning configuration for each additive manufacturing system based on the task to which the additive manufacturing system is assigned, the set of 3D printing requirements, the printing instructions, and the status of the additive manufacturing system. The method includes provisioning the additive manufacturing system based on the provisioning configuration and a set of additive manufacturing system provisioning rules that are accessible to an intelligence layer to ensure that provisioned systems comply with the provisioning rules. The method includes deploying the robotic fleet based on the robotic fleet configuration data structure to perform the job.

To provide an information processing device that outputs a data structure capable of efficiently managing a group of mobile robots.SOLUTION: An information processing device 10 includes: an acquisition unit 101 for acquiring a map in which passable areas and impassable areas of a mobile robot are distinguished and information on the size of the robot; a processing unit 102 for dividing the passable area of the map into a first area where the running direction of the robot is fixed and a second area where the running direction of the robot is not fixed, and generating a predetermined data structure that stores information on whether or not the robots have passed each other in the first area as the information on the first area and information on the number of robots that can exist at the same time as the information on the second area using information on the sizes of the robots; and an output unit 103 that outputs the data structure generated by the processing unit 102.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To provide an autonomous travel robot system capable of maintaining an autonomous movement function even if abnormality occurs in a portion of sensors.SOLUTION: A robot system recognizes a self position on the basis of previously stored map information and traveling road information, and detects an obstacle on a traveling road with a main sensor 55 and sub sensors 52, 54 for assisting the main sensor to autonomously travel. Then, the robot system temporarily stops the sub sensors to continue traveling in the case where the sub sensors are affected by disturbance and the self position is in a preset specific area. The operation of the robot system is maintained by stopping the function of a portion of the sub sensors in the specific area in which the sensors easily become an abnormal state.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

To provide a technique capable of preventing a large delay from occurring in the conveyance of articles as a whole system even when a processing load of a control device is increased.SOLUTION: A control system 100 includes a control device 2 that executes a plurality of pieces of processing, including allocation processing that assigns a movement task T for transporting an article to one of a plurality of transport vehicles 1. When a processing load of the control device 2 exceeds a predetermined reference load using at least some of the plurality of pieces of processing executed by the control device 2, excluding the allocation processing as target processing, a restriction mode is set in which the execution of the target processing by the control device 2 is restricted, thereby reducing the load on the control device 2.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

To provide a technology for an automatic traveling system for making a plurality of types of work vehicles travel automatically in a farm field in which ridges are to be formed, the technology making it possible to generate target traveling paths for the respective work vehicles as ones suitable for ridge formation positions in the same work region.SOLUTION: An automatic traveling system acquires in-work width ridge position information showing a position of a ridge U to be a work target in a work width for each of a plurality of types of work vehicles V1, V2; identifies a formation position for the ridge U in a work region from a target traveling path P1 and in-work width ridge position information generated for the first work vehicle V1 for performing first work including ridge formation; and, in generating a target traveling path P2 for the second work vehicle V2 for performing second work differing from the first work, refers to the identified formation position for the ridge U and the acquired in-work width ridge position information for the second work vehicle V2 to adjust a position of the ridge U to be a work target in the second work vehicle V2's work width to the formation position for the ridge U in the work region.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

To provide a distance measuring system with which it is possible to detect the attached posture of a distance measuring device attached to a body unit, without using an apparatus for posture detection such as an inclination sensor or a level gauge.SOLUTION: A conveyance system 50 comprises a body unit 31, a TOF sensor 20, and an attached posture detection device 10. The TOF sensor 20 includes a lighting unit 21 for irradiating a floor surface FL with light, an imaging element 23 for detecting light radiated from the lighting unit 21, a distance information acquisition unit 11 for acquiring distance information to reference points P1, P2 on the floor surface FL in accordance with a phase difference between the received light wave and projected light wave of light detected by the imaging element 23, and an angle information acquisition unit 12 for acquiring angle information to the reference points P1, P2, the TOF sensor being mounted to the body unit 31. The attached posture detection unit 14 detects the attached posture of the TOF sensor 20 to the floor surface FL on the basis of the distance information and angle information acquired by the distance information acquisition unit 11 and the angle information acquisition unit 12.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

To provide a transport vehicle capable of suppressing the slip of wheels in the case of accelerating or decelerating a vehicle body.SOLUTION: A transport vehicle includes a vehicle body including first wheels and second wheels arranged at mutually different positions in a travel direction, a first driving device for driving the first wheels, a second driving device for driving the second wheels, and a control device for controlling the first driving device and the second driving device. The control device controls the first driving device and the second driving device so as to make a load increasing wheel torque ratio R being a ratio of torque to be transmitted to a load increasing wheel to the sum of first wheel torque and second wheel torque higher than during constant speed traveling of the wheel body with torque transmitted from the first driving device to the first wheels as the first wheel torque, with torque transmitted from the second driving device to the second wheels as the second wheel torque, and with wheels in which a vertically downward load increases by vehicle body acceleration or deceleration between the first wheels and the second wheels as load increasing wheels.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

A controller is provided to control movement of a plurality of transporting devices. In particular, the controller provides improved robot shunting. More specifically, the controller delays the planning of a shunt path for an idle robot until closer to the time the idle robot needs to move out of the way. Advantageously this avoids the computing burden of planning shunts in advance that are never performed because the idle robot is subsequently tasked before the shunt were due to start. In particular, shunt paths can be planned very close to the time at which they need to be executed thereby providing a more efficient solution to robot shunting because very close to the execution time there is a very small probability that the plan will change in a way that the shunt needs to be recalculated.

To provide a practical moving object operation management device.SOLUTION: The invention relates to a moving object operation management device for managing operation of moving objects T that move in a passage PL provided in an area 10 and perform work at a specific place. When the work of a certain moving object hinders the movement of another moving object in the passage, the device sets exclusive sections E such that an exclusive section Es of one moving object Ts of the two moving objects is adjacent to an exclusive section En of the other moving object Tn thereof. When the movement of one moving object along the shortest path (solid line) to a next destination is hindered by the exclusive section of the other moving object, the device selectively issues: (A) a first operation instruction to move the one moving object to the next destination along a path (broken line) bypassing the exclusive section of the other moving object; and (B) a second operation instruction to move the one moving object to the next destination along the shortest path after the exclusive section of the other moving object is lifted; by comparing the time the one moving object arrives at the next destination in the cases of following these instructions.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

To provide an automatic driving device which allows maintenance of travel even in such a case that the automatic driving device deviates from a travel range, an operation management system which manages an operation of an automatic driving vehicle loaded with the same, and to further provide an automatic driving program.SOLUTION: An automatic driving device 100 is loaded on a vehicle VE as an automatic driving vehicle and comprises: a guide travel unit GD which causes the vehicle VE to perform guide travel along electromagnetic induction wire IW on the basis of electromagnetic waves RW received from the electromagnetic induction wire IW as a course guidance unit; a separation / restoration unit BC which performs separation from the guide travel and restoration to the guide travel; and an autonomous travel unit AD which causes the vehicle VE to autonomously drive until the vehicle VE restores to the guide travel after being separated from the guide travel.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To provide a construction management system capable of safely and efficiently performing construction machine work by autonomous operation.SOLUTION: A construction management system 10 includes: a plurality of construction machines 11 that perform work by autonomous operation at a construction site; a management device 12 that can be operated by an operator; and a platform 13 to which the plurality of construction machines 11 and the management device 12 are communicably connected. Each construction machine 11 is configured to acquire its self-position and to be able to transmit the acquired self-position to the platform 13. The management device 12 is configured to be able to transmit safety priorities for the plurality of construction machines 11 to the platform 13. During operation of each construction machine 11, the platform 13 determines whether or not an emergency stop is necessary for each construction machine 11 based on the self-position and the safety priority of each construction machine 11, and makes an emergency stop of the construction machine 11 that needs the emergency stop.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A control system capable of performing a control process while different autonomous mobile objects are sharing information of a spatio-temporal division region includes a control unit configured to issue a control instruction to at least one autonomous mobile object and a conversion / information holding unit configured to convert spatial information including information about time and information about a type of physical object present in a space defined by a predetermined coordinate system into a format in association with a unique identifier and hold the spatial information converted into the format in association with the unique identifier. The conversion / information holding unit is able to register that a predetermined physical object is present in a predetermined time. The control unit generates route information about a movement route of the mobile object on the basis of the spatial information acquired from the conversion / information holding unit and type information of the mobile object.

A method of operating a distribution system is described. The distribution system comprises a plurality of carriers, each adapted to carry one or more articles. A transfer surface of the distribution system supports the carriers. A controller controls the drive means. During initialization of the distribution system, the controller predefines a pattern of safety points on the transfer surface, on which the carriers can be positioned. After initialization of the distribution system, the controller calculates partial routes of the carriers such that the end position of each partial route is either one of the safety points or has a free path to one of the safety points reachable in the next partial route.

To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program capable of reducing errors when estimating the position and orientation of a mobile body .SOLUTION: The processing in an information processing device includes acquiring detection information detected by a sensor mounted on a mobile body, calculating degrees of similarity of a plurality of pieces of detection information detected at different positions or different orientations, determining, on the basis of the degrees of similarity, positions of additional objects to be added within a detection range of the sensor when the detection information is detected, and notifying a user of at least positions of the additional objects.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

There is described a control platform for autonomous systems, which integrates digital product and process information with data obtained by means of sensors, using artificial intelligence, for example, artificial neural networks for system feedback and decision making in the autonomous execution of activities.

An autonomous control system combines sensor data from multiple sensors to simulate sensor data from high-capacity sensors. The sensor data contains information related to physical environments surrounding vehicles for autonomous guidance. For example, the sensor data may be in the form of images that visually capture scenes of the surrounding environment, geo-location of the vehicles, and the like. The autonomous control system simulates high-capacity sensor data of the physical environment from replacement sensors that may each have lower capacity than high-capacity sensors. The high-capacity sensor data may be simulated via one or more neural network models. The autonomous control system performs various detection and control algorithms on the simulated sensor data to guide the vehicle autonomously.

Risk hedging is performed even if a communication delay occurs during the remote control of a working machine (1). A remote control system (100) for a working machine includes a monitor (25) to monitor a surrounding area of a working machine which is allowed to travel, and output a piece of monitoring data indicating a result of monitoring the surrounding area, a first assignor (21d) to assign a first time stamp to the piece of monitoring data, a storage and / or a memory (42, 22) to store a plurality of the pieces of monitoring data and a plurality of the first time stamps, a remote control terminal (30) to receive the piece of monitoring data and display the result of monitoring and to be operated to transmit a remote control signal, a second assignor (31d) to assign a second time stamp to the remote control signal, a signal acceptor (41a, 21a) to accept the remote control signal, determine whether the accepted remote control signal is appropriate based on the second time stamp assigned to the accepted remote control signal and the first time stamp assigned to the monitoring data stored in the storage and / or the memory, and invalidate the remote control signal determined to be not appropriate, and a controller (21) to control an action of the working machine based on the remote control signal determined to be appropriate by the signal acceptor.

To provide a travel system and travel method capable of properly coupling a carriage to a travel apparatus.SOLUTION: A travel system includes a display processing unit that, when a travel apparatus reaches a predetermined position, allows a display unit included in a carriage to display first identification information, a determination processing unit that determines a display size of the first identification information, which is displayed on the display unit, on the basis of a distance between the travel apparatus and carriage, and a coupling processing unit that, when the first identification information is read by a reading unit included in the travel apparatus, performs a coupling motion of coupling the carriage to the travel apparatus.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

To provide a method for correcting a shift in a transfer position of an article.SOLUTION: A control unit (80) is provided with a positional information acquisition unit (81) for acquiring positional information and a deviation of an identification code from a reference position from images taken by photographing units (61 and 62), and an operation control unit (82) for controlling operation of a conveying apparatus so as to correct the deviation of a transfer position of an article based on the positional information and the deviation of the identification code from the reference position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9

To provide a mobile robot capable of avoiding situations in which the mobile robot hinders people's evacuation in emergencies.SOLUTION: A mobile robot 130 that moves autonomously includes: means of transportation 132; and a movement controller 170 that controls the means of transportation 132. The movement controller 170 includes: a self-position recognition unit 171 that recognizes a self-position on the basis of, a piece of information from a sensor 136; an emergency information acquisition unit 172 that acquires emergency information; an area identification unit 173 that identifies a movable area on the basis of, the emergency information; a cost map acquisition unit 176 that acquires a cost map that indicates evacuation priority assigned to each partition within the identified region; and an evacuation unit 175 that controls the means of transportation 132 to move to a segment with higher priority than the priority corresponding to the segment that includes the self-position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a system that can appropriately transport a loaded object according to a weight or center of gravity coordinates of the loaded object.SOLUTION: According to an embodiment, an information processing device comprises a first interface and a processor. The first interface is connected to an automatic transport device that transports a loaded object and measures a force and a rotational moment applied to the loaded object. The processor acquires measurement data indicative of the force and the rotational moment from the automatic transport device through the first interface, calculates center of gravity coordinates of the loaded object based on the measurement data and transmits a set of parameters related to traveling of the automatic transport device to the automatic transport device based on the center of gravity coordinates through the first interface.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A self-propelled gardening robot (100) includes a positioning module (70), a control module (30), a material chamber (52), and a working module (50). The positioning module (70) of the self-propelled gardening robot (100) is used for path planning, and the control module (30) controls the self-propelled gardening robot (100) to walk according to the planned path; while the self-propelled gardening robot (100) is walking, the working module (50) performs corresponding work. When different materials are placed in the material chamber (52), the self-propelled gardening robot (100) can complete different functional tasks according to the same control program. Preferably, the self-propelled gardening robot (100) also has an accessory interface (12). By connecting different functional accessories through the accessory interface (12), the self-propelled gardening robot (100) can achieve multiple functions. This path-planning, multi-functional self-propelled gardening robot (100) improves the efficiency of machine use and reduces the user's operating costs.

To provide a precise docking control method and a vehicle system for drawing a 4-wheel steering vehicle sideways to stop.SOLUTION: A precise docking control method for drawing a vehicle (2) including at least a 4-wheel steering vehicle whose rear wheels are steered in an opposite phase to a platform (15) sideways to stop, executes preliminary control for setting a virtual platform (159) virtually extending along a stopping direction being a direction of the vehicle (2) when the vehicle (2) is drawn to the platform (15) sideways to stop to a position that is the front side of the platform (15), and drawing the vehicle (2) to the virtual platform (159) sideways before control for drawing the vehicle (2) to the platform (15) sideways to stop.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

An automated vehicle (AV) is configured to perform automated travel, and includes vehicle sensors configured to detect a second vehicle in a surrounding environment of the AV. The AV includes at least one of a brake mechanism, an accelerator mechanism, a steering control, and a user interface configured to generate a user response to automated travel by the AV. The AV includes a computing device configured to identify an interaction between the AV and the second vehicle while executing an automated travel path, and receive user responses to automated travel by the AV. The computing device is configured to determine at least one aspect of wellbeing, trust, and satisfaction of the user riding the AV based on the user responses, and determine a learned optimal policy which increases the at least one aspect of wellbeing, trust, and satisfaction based on the user responses.