Image-Based Localization Model Deployment Across Diverse Robot Sites

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing robot navigation systems face challenges in scaling custom navigation models across multiple diverse environments, especially when deploying large fleets of robots, as manual adjustments are required for each environment, leading to inefficiencies and performance issues.

Innovation Solution

An automated robot training and deployment system for image-based localization models is implemented, which includes multiple temporal data decoupling strategies and a model system comprising data collection, training, deployment, and refresh modules, enabling scalable deployment across various environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual adjustments are made to navigation models for each environment, then robot navigation accuracy is improved, but deployment time and complexity increase significantly when scaling to large robot fleets

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenavigation accuracyVSAvoiddeployment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically collecting training data from multiple environments beforehand, pre-training navigation models across diverse scenarios, and preparing standardized model packages for deployment. This eliminates the need for manual adjustments during actual deployment, resolving the contradiction between achieving high navigation accuracy and reducing deployment time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service through automated data collection, automatic model training pipelines, and self-deployment mechanisms that eliminate human intervention. The navigation models automatically adapt to different environments through pre-collected training data, enabling rapid scaling to large robot fleets without manual adjustments, thus reducing deployment time while maintaining navigation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If custom navigation models are designed for specific environments, then robot navigation performance is improved, but system complexity and difficulty of scaling to multiple environments increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenavigation performanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates universal navigation models that can operate across multiple diverse environments through automated training on aggregated data from various locations. A single standardized model architecture serves multiple environments, eliminating the need for separate custom models for each location. This reduces system complexity while maintaining navigation performance through environment-specific adaptations learned during automated training.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters automatically through automated training processes, adjusting model weights and configurations based on environment-specific patterns learned from training data. Instead of manually redesigning models for each environment, the system modifies model parameters through automated learning, reducing system complexity while preserving navigation performance across diverse settings.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If manual model adjustments are performed for each robot deployment, then localization accuracy is improved, but productivity and scalability to large robot fleets decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelocalization accuracyVSAvoiddeployment scalability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service through automated data collection, automatic model training, and self-deployment capabilities that eliminate manual adjustments. Navigation models automatically learn environment-specific patterns from training data and deploy themselves across robot fleets, maintaining localization accuracy while enabling rapid scaling to hundreds or thousands of robots without proportional increases in manual work.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically collecting training data from multiple environments, pre-training models across diverse scenarios, and preparing standardized deployment packages beforehand. This preliminary automation enables rapid deployment to large robot fleets while maintaining localization accuracy, as models are already adapted to various environments before deployment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Productivity

If standardized navigation models are deployed across multiple environments, then deployment efficiency is improved, but adaptability to environment-specific conditions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedeployment efficiencyVSAvoidenvironment adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically changes model parameters through automated training on environment-specific training data, allowing standardized model architectures to adapt to local conditions. The automated training process adjusts weights and configurations based on patterns learned from data collected in each specific environment, maintaining deployment efficiency while achieving environment-specific adaptability through parameter optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically collecting environment-specific training data and pre-training models with location-aware patterns before deployment. This preliminary automated adaptation enables standardized models to incorporate environment-specific characteristics in advance, maintaining both deployment efficiency and adaptability to local conditions through pre-learned environmental patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250035443A1Temporal decoupling in image-based localization at scale
Publication Date: 2025.01.30 BEAR ROBOTICS INC
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AI summary

A computer-implemented method and apparatus to generate an image-based localization model for mobile robot navigation. The method includes performing data collection at a plurality of different service locations, to which a fleet of mobile robots is deployable, to generate collected data, dividing the collected data into a plurality of blocks of consecutive portions of the collected data, generating a first image-based localization model and a second image-based localization model for a first and respectively, second service location of the plurality of different service locations, using the collected data. The method further includes deploying the first image-based localization model and the second image-based localization model to a first and, respectively, second mobile robot of the fleet of mobile robots, the first image-based localization model and the second image-based localization model being used to navigate the first and, respectively, the second service location of the plurality of different service locations.