966results 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.

An automated storage and retrieval system includes an automated storage and retrieval grid and a delivery system. The automated storage and retrieval grid includes a container handling vehicle rail system and a delivery column. The container handling vehicle rail system is for guiding a plurality of container handling vehicles. The delivery column is adapted for transport of a storage container from a container handling vehicle to a delivery port situated at a lower end of the delivery column, and further adapted for transport of a storage container from the delivery port to the container handling vehicle. The storage container is configured to be stored in a stack of storage containers beneath the container handling vehicle rail system. The delivery system includes a remotely operated delivery vehicle, which includes a container carrier adapted to support the storage container. The delivery vehicle is further adapted to transport the storage container between a delivery port and a second location for handling of the storage container by at least one of a robotic operator and a human operator.

The disclosure relates to the system and methods for generating a guidance path for automated navigation of large agricultural equipment. Vehicle path data from leading vehicles can be recorded, stored or inputted into the system for generation of guidance paths offset from the swaths traversed by the leading vehicle. Combines, planters sprayers and other vehicles utilizing guidance system can be used to record leading vehicle data for use by the following vehicle in real time or in subsequent cycles. Enterprise systems can manage multiple grain carts and / or combines or other vehicles to maximize efficiency.

An automated storage and retrieval system includes an automated storage and retrieval grid and a delivery system. The automated storage and retrieval grid includes a container handling vehicle rail system and a delivery column. The container handling vehicle rail system, which is for guiding a plurality of container handling vehicles, includes a first set of parallel rails arranged in a horizontal plane and extending in a first direction, and a second set of parallel rails arranged in the horizontal plane and extending in a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction, which first and second sets of rails form a grid pattern in the horizontal plane including a plurality of adjacent container handling vehicle grid cells. Each container handling vehicle grid cell includes a container handling vehicle grid opening defined by a pair of neighboring rails of the first set of rails and a pair of neighboring rails of the second set of rails. The delivery column is adapted for transport of a storage container arranged in a stack of storage containers beneath the container handling vehicle rail system between a container handling vehicle and a delivery port situated at a lower end of the delivery column. The delivery system includes a remotely operated delivery vehicle. The remotely operated delivery vehicle includes a vehicle body, rolling devices connected to the vehicle body, rolling device motors for driving the rolling devices in a horizontal plane, and a power source connected to the rolling device motors. A container carrier is adapted to support the storage container. The delivery vehicle is further adapted to transport the storage container between a delivery port and a second location for handling of the storage container by at least one of a robotic operator and a human operator.

An aquatic rescue vehicle formed by adding directional and speed controls to a watercraft along with an autonomous control system to guide the vehicle to specified waypoints is disclosed. The rescue vehicle includes search devices such as a radio direction finder (RDF) and an infrared sensor (or camera) to be used to narrow the search for an isolated person (IP). The rescue vehicle may be discharged from a larger watercraft or an airplane and autonomously set out on its rescue mission. The vehicle may first navigate to a designated waypoint near an IP, and then use signals gathered from the RDF and infrared sensor to finally locate, assist, and retrieve the IP. The vehicle also includes a self-righting mechanism so that the vehicle can complete its mission even under the most adverse conditions.

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.

Provided is an object detection method including detecting a first object by using an object detection filter in an original image and images of which resolutions are downscaled and detecting a second object by using a neural network-based object detection model of which an input is a target image that is determined to be one of the original image and the images of which resolutions are downscaled.

There is provided a mobile device that operates in order to image a subject, the mobile device including an imaging unit, a sensor that recognizes a surrounding environment, and a light emitting unit disposed on a housing in a ring shape or on the entire surface of the housing. The operation of the mobile device includes imaging, based on a set photographing plan, with the imaging unit, the subject recognized by the sensor as the mobile device moves. The light emitting unit performs a light emission expression corresponding to at least one of the photographing plan and the operation of the mobile device.

A method is provided for detecting conflict along a route for a robot to travel. The method includes generating a predicted trajectory of a nearby moving object, generating a trajectory of the robot, and performing a comparison of the nearby moving object and the robot on their projected trajectory and trajectory to detect a conflict that may be avoided. The comparison includes determining updated positions and velocities of the nearby moving object and the robot. The comparison also includes determining if the nearby moving object is within a clear region that includes the robot from the updated positions, and if a time to closest point of approach between nearby moving object and the robot is less than a time threshold value from the updated velocities. The conflict is then detected when the nearby moving object is within the clear region, and the time to closest point of approach is less than the time threshold value.

A vehicle agnostic removable pod can be mounted on a vehicle using one or more legs of a pod mount. The removable pod can collect and time stamp a variety of environmental data as well as vehicle data. For example, environmental data can be collected using a sensor suite which can include an IMU, 3D positioning sensor, one or more cameras, and / or a LIDAR unit. As another example, vehicle data can be collected via a CAN bus attached to the vehicle. Environmental data and / or vehicle data can be time stamped and transmitted to a remote server for further processing by a computing device.

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.

To provide an automatic running method, an automatic running system and an automatic running program capable of maintaining a work precision even if the positioning scheme of a work vehicle changes.SOLUTION: A positioning process unit 181 measures the position of a work vehicle 10 by a predetermined positioning scheme on the basis of satellite signals received from a satellite 20. A running process unit 111 causes the work vehicle 10 to automatically run on the basis of positional information representing the position of the work vehicle 10 measured by the positioning process unit 181. Moreover, when the work vehicle 10 can automatically run by the first positioning scheme and when the positioning scheme changes to a second positioning scheme that has a different positioning precision from that of the first positioning scheme, the running process unit 111 prohibits the automatic running.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To disclose that an inventor has been aware that it is not easy to appropriately obtain a straight route reference point when straight advancing assist is over and a vehicle body is being moved for a next straight advancing assist.SOLUTION: A rice planting machine includes: a controller 110 which performs straight advancing assist for advancing a vehicle body 100 straight along a straight route; and a straight advancing assist start instruction member 120 for giving a straight advancing start instruction to the controller 110 in accordance with a user's manual operation. When the straight advancing is over and the vehicle body 100 is being moved for next straight advancing assist, the controller 110 obtains a location of the vehicle body 100 as a straight route reference point and stores the straight route reference point when it is determined that a straight route reference point acquisition condition is satisfied, and when the straight advancing assist start instruction is given after the straight route reference point is stored, starts the straight advancing assist.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

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 method for docking a boarding bridge with an aircraft, an electronic equipment and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: planning a path from a position at which a bridgehead is located when the boarding bridge is at a parking position to a pre-docking position which is 1 to 2 meters away from a cabin door of the aircraft, driving the boarding bridge to move the bridgehead towards the pre-docking position along the path until the bridgehead moves to a position within 2 meters away from the pre-docking position; acquiring an aircraft image of the aircraft, obtaining a spatial position of the cabin door according to the aircraft image, and moving the boarding bridge according to the spatial position to enable the bridgehead to dock with the cabin door.

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.

A system for autonomously inspecting intrusions into a reach envelope of a vehicle traveling along a ride path of a park ride. The system includes a test vehicle that travels along the ride path at test speeds. The system includes a reach envelope inspection assembly including a housing supported by the test vehicle. The reach envelope inspection assembly includes a distance measurement assembly in the housing operable to measure distances between the distance measurement assembly and surfaces of the physical environment. The inspection assembly includes a processor executing code to provide an examination program that compares the plurality of distances to one or more predefined reach envelopes to determine whether an intrusion into any of the one or more predefined reach envelopes exists along the ride path. The test vehicle is a ride vehicle for the park ride or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated to follow the ride path.

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 work information projection system estimates a position in a workplace. The work information projections system includes a camera (13), a stereo camera (14), and a controller. The camera (13) is arranged facing in a first direction and acquires first environment information which is information about an object arranged in and around the first direction. The stereo camera (14) is arranged facing in a second direction and acquires second environment information which is information about an object arranged in and around the second direction. The controller estimates a position in a first coordinate system based on the first environment information when it determines that the second environment information becomes unacquirable.

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.

An area recognition system, an area recognition method, and a program that simplify a control logic for recognizing a movement between travel areas are provided. An area recognition system recognizes a travel area of a robot. A magnetic member having a first magnetic pole and a magnetic member having a second magnetic pole different from the first pole are disposed between different travel areas. The robot includes a first magnetic sensor, a second magnetic sensor provided at a position different from a position where the first magnetic sensor is provided along a traveling direction of the robot, and a recognition unit configured to recognize a movement of the robot between the different travel areas by the first magnetic sensor detecting the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic sensor detecting the second magnetic pole.

A method may include detecting one or more objects within an agricultural environment based on an analysis of a first aerial image of the agricultural environment and determining a first navigational route for an autonomous tractor system to follow to perform an agricultural task within the agricultural environment in view of the detected objects. The autonomous tractor system may be configured to navigate through the agricultural environment via the first navigational route. The method may further include, while autonomous tractor system is navigating through the agricultural environment via the first navigational route, obtaining, from one or more sensors of the autonomous tractor system, data regarding a second object within an agricultural environment. The method may also include determining a second navigational route for the autonomous tractor system to follow to perform the agricultural task within the agricultural environment in view of the first navigational route and the second object.

A system for enabling varied ridesharing services is provided. The system may include: a communications interface; a memory for storing accounts of the users including a restriction associated with a user, the restriction including limiting a distance from a starting point to a pick-up location and limiting a distance from a drop-off location to a destination; and a processor configured to: receive a request for a shared-ride from the user, the request including an indication of a starting point and a destination; access the database to retrieve the restriction; receive vehicle location data for a fleet of vehicles; identify candidate vehicles to pick up the user based on location information and an ability of candidate vehicles to comply with the restriction; provide to the user offers associated with candidate vehicles; receive a selection of an offer; and direct a vehicle associated with the offer to pick up the user.

An image processing apparatus includes an extractor and an object identifier. The extractor is configured to extract a feature quantity included in a captured image. The object identifier is configured to perform identification of an object on the basis of the feature quantity. The extractor is configured to extract the feature quantity by performing, on the captured image, a convolution calculation multiple times using a filter including multiple filter values that are two-dimensionally arranged. The multiple filter values are initially set at values that are line-symmetric with respect to an axis of symmetry along a predetermined direction. Augmentation batch data of learning data to be used in an update process of the filter by machine learning is configured to include any unflipped image extracted and a flipped image as paired images, the flipped image resulting from applying image-flipping to the unflipped image with respect to the axis of symmetry.

A three-dimensional information processing method and a three-dimensional information processing device are provided. The three-dimensional information processing method includes the following processing: determining whether first three-dimensional position information within a first range can be obtained via a communication path; and if the first three-dimensional position information cannot be obtained via the communication path, obtaining second three-dimensional position information within a second range narrower than the first range via the communication path.

A technique for determining and compensating for a dead time of at least one actuator for lateral guidance or longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle includes a device including at least one sensor or at least one sensor interface for detecting at least one actual value of a state of motion of the lateral guidance or longitudinal guidance. A unit of determination of the device is configured to determine the dead time of at least one actuator by comparing at least one target value of the state of motion calculated from a dynamic model with the recorded at least one actual value. A control unit of the device is configured to control the actuator depending on the detected state of motion and the certain dead time of at least one actuator, wherein the control unit outputs time-preceding control signals to the actuator around the dead time.

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

A storage network includes a plurality of storage systems. Each storage system includes a storage grid structure, having at least one transfer column and a horizontal top rail grid upon which the container handling vehicle moves in two perpendicular directions, and at least one container handling vehicle. The storage system includes at least one container transfer vehicle and transfer rails forming a transfer rail grid upon which the container transfer vehicle moves in at least one horizontal direction. The container transfer vehicle includes a container carrier for carrying a storage container and a wheel arrangement for moving the container transfer vehicle in two perpendicular directions upon the transfer rail grid. The at least one transfer column extends from the top rail grid to the transfer section, such that a storage container may be transferred between the top rail grid and the container carrier of the container transfer vehicle.

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