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Mobile robot control device giving consideration to field navigation patrol and transportation load

The invention discloses a mobile robot control device giving consideration to field navigation patrol and transportation load, and relates to the field of robot control, and the device comprises a sensor data collection module which forms multi-source sensor data; the environment understanding module is used for predicting terrain risks and weather influences based on the feature vectors and outputting environment feature data and risk prediction; the navigation control module is used for navigating a path based on the environment characteristic data and generating a robot motion control instruction; the load management module adjusts parameters of the navigation control module based on the load state; the feedback adjusting module is used for dynamically adjusting control parameters according to the load state and feeding back the control parameters to the navigation control module to optimize and modify a robot motion control instruction; and the intelligent detection module is used for detecting environment abnormity and dangerous case events and outputting an alarm signal. The method has the advantages that accurate prediction of environmental risks is realized through multi-sensor layered feature extraction and attention weighted fusion, and motion parameters are dynamically adjusted in combination with a moment balance model.
Owner:TIANZE SMART TECH (CHENGDU) CO LTD

Anti-interference control system for trajectory tracking of wheeled robot

PendingCN120523033AAdaptive controlDynamic modelsNonlinear dynamic modeling
The invention relates to the technical field of mobile robot control, and discloses a wheeled robot trajectory tracking anti-interference control system, which comprises a nonlinear dynamics modeling module used for establishing a nonlinear dynamics model of a wheeled robot so as to describe the motion characteristics of the robot under the influence of ground friction force, sliding force and modeling errors; the disturbance estimation module is used for estimating external disturbance and system modeling errors in real time through an extended state observer and providing disturbance compensation data for the controller; and the sliding mode control module is used for realizing rapid convergence of track deviation by constructing a sliding mode surface and enhancing the anti-interference capability of the system by dynamically adjusting the sliding mode gain. According to the invention, through nonlinear dynamic modeling, disturbance estimation, sliding mode control and model prediction control fusion and real-time trajectory optimization, high-precision trajectory tracking is realized, and the anti-interference capability and the dynamic environment adaptability are enhanced.
Owner:INNER MONGOLIA DATANG INT TUOKETUO POWER GENERATION

Mobile robot control method and system

The invention discloses a mobile robot control method and system, and relates to the technical field of mobile robot intelligent motion control, and the method comprises the steps: collecting environment feature data and motion state data; performing preprocessing and feature fusion to generate standardized state data; constructing a reinforcement learning training environment in an offline simulation environment, and obtaining a convergent reinforcement learning strategy model; inputting the current robot standardized state data into the reinforcement learning strategy model, and obtaining and outputting a preliminary motion control instruction and a reference trajectory; a prediction control model MPC is established, current robot standardized state data are input, short-time motion prediction and optimization are carried out, and a final control instruction meeting constraint conditions is obtained through solving; instructions are distributed to the four Mecanum wheel drivers, and the rotating speed and the direction of each wheel are adjusted. According to the invention, high-precision trajectory tracking, adaptive obstacle avoidance and energy efficiency optimization of the mobile robot in a complex dynamic environment are realized, and the system stability and the intelligent level are improved.
Owner:JINAN VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

Finite time robust trajectory tracking control method for wheeled mobile robot

The invention discloses a robust trajectory tracking control method for a wheeled mobile robot in finite time, belongs to the technical field of robots, and aims to solve the problems that the wheeled mobile robot is inevitably influenced by model uncertainty and external disturbance in a task execution process due to a complex working environment, and the robot is difficult to track. The design difficulty of a wheeled mobile robot control system is greatly increased due to the factors. The method comprises the following steps: 1, establishing kinematics and dynamics models of a wheeled mobile robot; the invention discloses a wheeled mobile robot finite time robust trajectory tracking control method based on a nonlinear extended state observer, and the method consists of a kinematics controller and a dynamics controller, the kinematics controller can guarantee that the position and attitude tracking error of a wheeled mobile robot is gradually converged to zero, and the kinematics controller can guarantee that the position and attitude tracking error of the wheeled mobile robot is gradually converged to zero. The dynamic controller can ensure that the speed and angular speed tracking errors of the wheeled mobile robot converge to zero within finite time.
Owner:STATE GRID JIBEI ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY +1

A multi-arm mobile robot control system and a control method thereof

The application relates to a multi-arm mobile robot control system, which comprises a robot, each joint position of the mechanical arm of which is configured with a joint controller for driving joint movement; a robot controller for realizing the operation of joint motors according to control quantities; a joint position hard analysis unit for calculating the coordinate positions of each joint or mechanical arm in a space coordinate system to output results; and a joint space point position trajectory constraint model for forming a correction quantity of a joint and superimposing the correction quantity on an original control quantity of the joint to become a final control quantity for controlling the joint, the final control quantity being used for output to the joint controller to realize joint movement. The application provides a multi-arm mobile robot control system, which effectively realizes the cooperative control among multi-arm robots, avoids the mutual collision among mechanical arms, improves the avoidance and dynamic response speed of the mechanical arms, and improves the agility of robot actions.
Owner:YAOSHI ROBOTICS (SHANGHAI) CO LTD +1

Mobile robot control method and system based on fault prediction

The invention relates to a mobile robot control method and system based on fault prediction, and the system comprises a multi-mode inverse kinematics solver which dynamically selects a solving mode according to the condition number of a Jacobian matrix, and carries out the solving of the Jacobian matrix according to the condition number from small to large; respectively selecting a transpose matrix method, a damping least square method and constrained quadratic programming to calculate the joint angle adjustment amount to adapt to bad working conditions such as singular configuration; the self-adaptive integral controller is used for independently adjusting position / attitude ring gain through a decoupling gain matrix, dynamically inhibiting vibration and reducing steady-state errors in combination with errors and fault indexes; and the fault prediction and reconstruction subsystem calculates a joint fault index in real time, and the index integrates torque deviation, temperature, harmonic distortion, vibration and wear data and implements hierarchical response. According to the system, the singular region stability is remarkably improved, the decoupling performance and the fault response speed are controlled, and the secondary fault risk is reduced.
Owner:INEXBOT

Mobile robot and control method therefor

Provided in an embodiment of the present invention for accomplishing the objective is a mobile robot control method comprising the steps of: collecting traveling state information while traveling in a traveling zone according to a basic map of the traveling zone; analyzing the traveling state information so as to set, as a dangerous region, a position where a plurality of abnormal situations occur, thereby creating a prohibited region map in the traveling zone; overlapping the predetermined number of prohibited region maps so as to calculate prohibited region candidates, if the prohibited region map is created to satisfy a predetermined number; and reflecting at least one of the prohibited region candidates on the basic map as a prohibited region so as to update the basic map to be used for subsequent traveling in the traveling zone. Therefore, various abnormal situations that cannot be sensed by a sensor for a space in which traveling is necessary can be recognized, and the type of situation, from among restriction, wandering and collision, can be accurately recognized according to various determination schemes and can be handled according thereto.
Owner:LG ELECTRONICS INC

Multi-modal sensing and decision-making integrated system for mobile robot

The invention relates to the technical field of mobile robot control, in particular to a multi-modal sensing and decision-making integrated system for a mobile robot, and provides the following scheme: performing joint smooth state estimation on multi-source sensing data to construct a state version diagram containing a time evolution relationship and a version evolution relationship; and under the constraint of an action locking window, establishing an action prefix index structure in combination with a historical action sequence, executing limited search on the state version diagram, and generating an updated action sequence with the minimum difference from the historical action structure. According to the method, the unstable change of event triggering and state machine transition can be inhibited under the condition that the smooth state estimation result is subjected to backtracking correction, the causal consistency and reproducibility of the action sequence are kept, and the operation stability and decision reliability of the mobile robot under the complex working condition are improved.
Owner:SHANGHAI HENGZE FUHUI INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO LTD +1

Control method and device of mobile robot, mobile robot, equipment and medium

The embodiment of the invention discloses a control method and device of a mobile robot, the mobile robot, equipment and a medium, the mobile robot comprises a machine body and a distance measuring assembly arranged at the top end of the machine body in a liftable mode, firstly, the mobile robot is controlled to be started at an initial position in a first state that the distance measuring assembly descends; the mobile robot is controlled to acquire the distance between the mobile robot and the obstacle above the mobile robot at the initial position, finally, based on the distance, whether the distance measuring assembly is switched to the second state or not is controlled, and in the second state, the distance measuring assembly ascends. In this way, the risk that hardware related to the distance measuring assembly is damaged when the mobile robot is started in a low area can be reduced; and lifting of the distance measuring assembly can be controlled more intelligently when the mobile robot is started so as to better adapt to the environment where the mobile robot is located when the mobile robot is started, and hardware safety and working performance are improved.
Owner:BEIJING ROBOROCK INNOVATION TECH CO LTD

Abnormality detection method and device, mobile robot and storage medium

The embodiment of the invention discloses an anomaly detection method and device, a mobile robot and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: enabling the mobile robot to control a first range finder to carry out the range finding, obtaining a plurality of range finding data, and enabling the mobile robot to carry out the detection according to whether the range finding data is null or not; according to whether the ratio of the ranging data lower than the preset height in the ranging data exceeds a preset threshold value or not, whether ranging of the first ranging device is abnormal or not is determined, and the ranging data are data obtained by the first ranging device when the mobile robot moves. The embodiment of the invention further discloses an anomaly detection device, the mobile robot and a storage medium.
Owner:BEIJING ROBOROCK INNOVATION TECH CO LTD

Motion planning for mobile robots

A computer-implemented method of planning actions for a mobile robot in the presence of occlusion The method comprises determining a first occluded region in a mobile robot field of view at a first time; sampling a first set of agent particles within the first occluded region; planning, using a robotic planner, based on a location and a motion state of a first agent particle of the first set of agent particles a first mobile robot action, the first mobile robot action accounting for predicted motion of the first agent particle; generating a first mobile robot control signal for causing execution of the first mobile robot action; determining a second occluded region in the mobile robot field of view at a second time; computing a propagated set of agent particles for the second time based on the first set of agent particles and a particle motion model; assigning an occlusion weight to each agent particle of the propagated set of agent particles with respect to the second occluded region; sampling a second set of agent particles within the second occluded region based on the propagated set of agent particles and the occlusion weight assigned to each agent particle; planning, using the robotic planner, based on a location and a motion state of a second agent particle of the second set of agent particles a second mobile robot action, the second mobile robot action accounting for predicted motion of the second agent particle; and generating a second mobile robot control signal for causing execution of the second mobile robot action.
Owner:FIVE AI LTD

Multi-arm mobile robot control system and control method thereof

The invention relates to a multi-arm mobile robot control system, which comprises a robot, and a joint controller for driving a joint to move is arranged at each joint position of a mechanical arm of the robot; the robot controller is used for enabling the joint controller to execute operation of the joint motor according to the control quantity; the joint position hard analysis unit is used for calculating the coordinate position of each joint or the mechanical arm in a space coordinate system so as to output a result; and the joint space point locus constraint model is used for forming the correction amount of the joint and superposing the correction amount to the original control amount of the joint to form the final control amount for controlling the joint, and the final control amount is used for being output to the joint controller to realize joint movement. According to the multi-arm mobile robot control system provided by the invention, cooperative control among multi-arm robots is effectively realized, mutual collision among mechanical arms is avoided, the avoidance and dynamic response speed of the mechanical arms is increased, and the flexibility of robot actions is improved.
Owner:YAOSHI ROBOTICS (SHANGHAI) CO LTD +1

Control method of following loading mobile robot based on gait recognition and inertia fusion

The invention relates to the technical field of following mobile robots, in particular to a following loading mobile robot control method based on gait recognition and inertia fusion. The method comprises the following steps: presetting a fixed track span as a fixed value L frame; acquiring image data of a target human body, and locking the target human body based on the image data; acquiring inertial data of the robot, fusing the image data and the inertial data, and tracking a target human body; calculating target tracking credibility based on the similarity between the tracking human body gait feature and the initial target human body gait feature; and completing a robot control decision according to the target tracking credibility. The problems that an existing robot depends on beacons and is prone to being lost and rigid in behavior are solved, and the robot is suitable for dynamic indoor scenes such as supermarkets and airports.
Owner:HEFEI UNIV OF TECH

Mobile robot, server, and mobile robot control method

A mobile robot that is capable of autonomous movement includes: a safe area obtainer that, when an anomaly in the mobile robot is detected during autonomous movement of the mobile robot, obtains information on a safe area identified based on a state of surroundings of the mobile robot, the safe area being an area at which the mobile robot can stop; and a controller that, when an anomaly in the mobile robot is detected during autonomous movement of the mobile robot, causes the mobile robot to move to the safe area based on the information on the safe area.
Owner:PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD

Multi-mobile-robot intermittent formation tracking control method for denial of service attack

The invention relates to a multi-mobile-robot intermittent formation tracking control method for denial of service attack, and belongs to the technical field of multi-mobile-robot control. Aiming at the problems of poor anti-interference performance, waste of communication computing resources, uncontrollable convergence time and strong model dependence in the prior art, a remote control terminal and ultrasonic radio station cooperative anti-attack switching scheme is provided, a distributed observer is adopted to realize leader state estimation, resource consumption is reduced by combining intermittent communication and an intermittent control mechanism, and the reliability of the system is improved. And a preset time adjustment function ensures user-defined convergence, and a reinforcement learning network optimization control strategy is introduced. The anti-attack capability and the self-adaptive performance of the system are improved, high-precision formation tracking is realized, the communication and calculation burden is remarkably reduced, and the expansibility is high.
Owner:CHONGQING UNIV

Robot AI model dynamic compression method and control system

The invention discloses a robot AI model dynamic compression method and control system, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the hardware state data and task type of a robot, and carrying out the normalization processing and storage of the hardware state data; based on the hardware state data and / or the task type, selecting a corresponding compression strategy in real time to compress the AI model so as to obtain a lightweight model, the compression strategy comprises at least one of compression of the AI model based on the hardware state data, compression of the AI model based on the hardware state data in combination with the reward function and the task type, and compression of the AI model based on the task type and / or the hardware state data. According to the method, the computing power of the robot control system, the complexity of the AI model and the computing speed can be balanced, the problem of how to effectively operate the AI small model in the mobile robot control system is solved, and the balance between the robot control precision and the speed is realized.
Owner:SHANGHAI SAGE INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD

Method and system for optimizing and controlling slip rate of crawler-type dredging robot

The invention discloses a crawler-type dredging robot slip rate optimization control method and system, and relates to the technical field of crawler-type mobile robot control, and the method comprises the steps: 1, importing a dredging robot three-dimensional diagram, carrying out the modeling of a crawler chassis, obtaining a kinetic model, applying torque drive in the model, and obtaining motion data; 2, establishing a dynamic mathematical model according to the dynamic characteristics of the dredging robot, and obtaining the relation between the motion state of the dredging robot and torque driving; 3, the slipping condition of the robot is analyzed through the motion data, and the slipping rate of the robot in actual motion is obtained; 4, according to a slip rate calculation result, identifying an optimal slip rate through a self-adaptive variable step size strategy; 5, designing a driving anti-slip controller of the fuzzy sliding mode according to the dynamic mathematical model, the slip rate in actual motion and the optimal slip rate; and 6, the motion of the robot is dynamically adjusted according to the driving anti-skid controller.
Owner:HOHAI UNIV

Safety control method for mobile robot under sequential logic and disturbance observer

The invention provides a mobile robot safety control method under a sequential logic and disturbance observer, relates to the technical field of robot safety control, establishes a novel high-order finite time barrier function control method with disturbance, and realizes mobile robot control under a sequential logic task. Under the condition that interference needs to be considered in a robot system and the relative order of a control obstacle function is a high order, an interference observer is constructed to solve the interference of the system, and a high-order interference observer control obstacle function is proposed to guarantee safe obstacle avoidance. Meanwhile, in order to encode complex task specifications, a control framework based on signal sequential logic is provided. In order to achieve the purpose, subsequent control design is carried out.
Owner:NORTHEASTERN UNIV CHINA

Mobile robot drive system

A mobile robot can include a chassis and support wheels configured to support the chassis on a ground surface. The mobile robot can have a drive assembly that includes a drive wheel mounted to a control arm for moving the mobile robot. The control arm can pivot about a pivot axis. The pivot axis can be rearward of the axis of rotation of the drive wheel. The pivot axis can be lower than the axis of rotation of the drive wheel. The pivot axis can be lower than the axis of rotation for one or more of the support wheels. A biasing member can bias the control arm downward. Braking using the drive wheel can increase the force of the drive wheel against the ground. Accelerating using the drive wheel can decrease the force of the drive wheel against the ground.
Owner:OMRON CORP

Autonomous mobile robot and system for controlling autonomous mobile robot

The present invention is an autonomous mobile robot (1) that moves by being guided by a plurality of signs that have a plurality of types of sizes, are aligned along a movement path (10), and includes a first sign and a second sign, the autonomous mobile robot (1) including: an imaging unit (26); a storage unit (25) storing individual identification information of each of a plurality of signs and an individual actual size of each of the plurality of signs; and a calculation unit (27) calculating a distance (D1) to the first sign on the basis of a size of the first sign on image data captured by the imaging unit (26) and the individual actual size of the first sign corresponding to the individual identification information of the first sign.
Owner:THK CO LTD

Industrial autonomous mobile robot control method, device, equipment and medium

The invention discloses an industrial autonomous mobile robot control method, device and equipment and a medium, is applied to a robot control system based on a hierarchical architecture, and relates to the field of automation, and the method comprises the steps: analyzing an input operation text instruction, and generating a navigation task and a grabbing task of a robot based on an obtained structured subtask sequence; calling preset laser equipment according to the navigation task to generate a three-dimensional semantic map of a target end point corresponding to the operation text instruction, and performing path planning and obstacle avoidance through the three-dimensional semantic map to obtain a target path; calling a preset image acquisition device to acquire a material image of a preset material area according to the grabbing task, and processing the material image to generate a material grabbing parameter; and converting the target path and the material grabbing parameter into a robot scheduling instruction corresponding to the robot, and controlling the robot to execute a navigation task and a grabbing task through the robot scheduling instruction. Therefore, autonomous operation of the industrial robot can be realized in combination with semantic understanding.
Owner:CHONGQING UNIV

Mobile robot control method and system based on fault prediction

The present invention relates to a mobile robot control method and system based on fault prediction. The system includes: a multimodal inverse kinematics solver that dynamically selects a solution mode based on the Jacobian matrix condition number. The system selects, from smallest to largest condition number, the transposed matrix method, damped least squares method, and constrained quadratic programming to calculate joint angle adjustments, adapting to adverse working conditions such as singular configurations; an adaptive integral controller that independently adjusts the position / attitude loop gain via a decoupling gain matrix, dynamically suppresses vibration and reduces steady-state error by combining error and fault index; and a fault prediction and reconstruction subsystem that calculates the joint fault index in real time. This index integrates torque deviation, temperature, harmonic distortion, vibration, and wear data, and implements a graded response. The system significantly improves singularity stability, control decoupling, and fault response speed, reducing the risk of secondary faults.
Owner:INEXBOT

Intelligent control system box

1.The name of the design product: intelligent control system box. 2.The use of the design product: the design product belongs to the intelligent robot motion control hardware system platform, which can be used for commercial or industrial floor cleaning robots, patrol robots, sweeping robots, carrying robots and other mobile robot control system boxes. 3.The design points of the design product: in shape. 4.The picture or photo that best indicates the design points: perspective view 1.
Owner:ZHITUSHI ROBOT TECHNOLOGY (JIANGSU) CO LTD

A lidar, control method, and related devices

This application discloses a lidar, a control method, and related equipment, relating to the field of mobile robot control. The lidar includes: a laser emitting component disposed on a rotating body of the lidar, the laser emitting component being used to emit coded laser light, the coded laser light being used for ranging and communication; a photosensitive component disposed on the rotating body, the photosensitive component being used to receive reflected laser light to obtain ranging information, the reflected laser light being the laser light reflected from the coded laser light onto the measured object and then onto the lidar; and an optoelectronic component disposed on the substrate of the lidar, the optoelectronic component being used to receive the coded laser light to obtain communication information.
Owner:BEIJING ROCKROBO TECH CO LTD

Control method for self-adaptively adjusting intelligent manned mobile robot

The invention discloses a control method for adaptively adjusting an intelligent manned mobile robot, and relates to the technical field of manned mobile robot control, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, building a map model, and carrying out the main path planning in the map model; s2, performing positioning analysis on the slope in the moving direction by combining the attitude data with the image data; s3, the mechanical parameters are combined with the road surface state and the weight data to carry out slope threshold value influence adaptation analysis; s4, performing branch path analysis according to the image data in combination with the main path and machine parameters, and obtaining passable branch paths; and S5, increasing the distance and combining the adjustment data to select and evaluate each passable branch path, and merging the selected branch paths into the main path. According to the invention, a distinctive path planning strategy is adopted, so that the robot can flexibly cope with a complex and changeable environment, the path is adjusted in time, and smooth travel is ensured.
Owner:SCI & TECH CO LTD HEFEI INTELLIGENT VEHICLE TECH CO LTD

Mobile robot control method and system based on multi-source fusion dynamic trajectory replanning

The invention discloses a mobile robot control method and system based on multi-source fusion dynamic trajectory re-planning. The method comprises the steps that vehicle kinematics data and environment characteristic observation data are acquired in real time; state prediction is carried out based on a kinematic model; performing multi-dimensional feature extraction and confidence evaluation on the environment features; carrying out measurement updating by utilizing extended Kalman filtering; performing time domain differential analysis on the posterior state; when the state jump is detected, generating a smooth dynamic transition track by taking the current posterior state as a starting point; acquiring predicted curvature information of the front path from the global map; inputting the confidence score and the predictive curvature into a fuzzy logic controller, and calculating the adjustment amount of PID control gain; and calculating a motor control instruction based on the dynamic transition trajectory by using an adaptive PID algorithm, and outputting a final control signal. According to the method, high-precision positioning and stable control can be realized only by depending on a low-cost vehicle-mounted sensor, the cost is low, the universality is high, and the method is suitable for various complex indoor scenes.
Owner:NANJING UNIV OF AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS

Distributed positioning system and method and self-positioning device

The present disclosure relates to distributed positioning systems and methods and self-locating devices. A self-locating device calculates its position relative to transceivers using time-tagged signals transmitted by the transceivers as part of a distributed positioning system. The transceivers and self-locating devices are arranged to use digital and analog reception and transmission electronics and one or more highly precise clocks, compensation units, positioning units, position calibration units, scheduling units or synchronization units for highly precise time tagging. The transceivers and self-locating devices are further arranged to allow full scalability in the number of self-locating devices and to allow robust self-locating with latency and update rates useful for high performance applications such as autonomous mobile robot control.
Owner:VERITY AG

Mobile robot behavior decision-making method inspired by functions of hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

The invention provides a hippocampus and prefrontal cortex function inspired mobile robot behavior decision-making method, and relates to the technical field of mobile robot control, the current state and the target position of a mobile robot are obtained from the environment, and a model-based reinforcement learning module is constructed through the spatial cognitive function of a hippocampus; reducing the dimension of the current state into a two-dimensional discrete state, inputting the two-dimensional discrete state into a model-based reinforcement learning module, and outputting an action to a decision controller; a model-free reinforcement learning module is obtained based on the basal ganglion and hippocampus memory function, the current state is input into the model-free reinforcement learning module, an action is output to a decision controller, and the decision controller is constructed by simulating the function that the prefrontal cortex is switched between the model-based reinforcement learning module and the model-free reinforcement learning module; and the decision controller outputs an execution action to complete the behavior decision of the mobile robot, so that the mobile robot is ensured to make a more reliable decision, and the performance of the mobile robot in the aspect of optimal decision is improved.
Owner:GANTRY LAB

Method and apparatus for controlling mobile robot for server transportation

The application provides a mobile robot control method and device for server carrying, the method comprising: realizing accurate positioning and mapping through a multi-sensor fusion SLAM navigation technology, accurately identifying a target cabinet through a 3D vision system and obtaining installation position information, calculating deviation parameters of a current pose of the server and a target installation position through a feature matching algorithm, and coordinating pose adjustment of a cargo platform and a lifter body based on deviation compensation. Through an integrated multi-dimensional pose compensation control mechanism, the application realizes full-process automatic control of the mobile robot from navigation positioning to accurate alignment, and effectively improves the positioning accuracy and success rate of automatic server installation.
Owner:SHENZHEN KEDING TECH CO LTD

Distributed localization systems and methods and self-localizing apparatus

A self-localizing apparatus uses timestampable signals transmitted by transceivers that are a part of a distributed localization system to compute its position relative to the transceivers. Transceivers and self-localizing apparatuses are arranged for highly accurate timestamping using digital and analog reception and transmission electronics as well as one or more highly accurate clocks, compensation units, localization units, position calibration units, scheduling units, or synchronization units. Transceivers and self-localizing apparatuses are further arranged to allow full scalability in the number of self-localizing apparatuses and to allow robust self-localization with latencies and update rates useful for high performance applications such as autonomous mobile robot control.
Owner:VERITY AG