Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for autonomous vehicle operation, in which a processor is configured to receive sensor data collected by a first sensor of a first autonomous vehicle during navigation of the first autonomous vehicle through a particular location and prior to a control signal subsequently generated by a controller of the first autonomous vehicle; determine based on the sensor data an event that triggered the control signal. A communication device coupled to the processor is configured to transmit to a second autonomous vehicle an instruction, based on the determined event, to adjust sensor data collected by a second sensor of the second autonomous vehicle during navigation of the second autonomous vehicle in the particular location.

Abstract: Elements of a machine are moved relative to one another along several axes. A monitoring device receives groups of position values of the axes which specify the relative position of the elements to one another. The surfaces and/or volumes of the elements taking up working space are determined therefrom. The monitoring device checks whether a collision risk between the elements exists. The monitoring device models at least parts of the surfaces of the elements with two-dimensional splines defined by nodes and checkpoints. The monitoring device further determines from the checkpoints of the splines for sections envelopes which envelop respective element in the respective section, and uses the respective envelope as a surface that is taken up by the respective element in the respective section. Boundary lines of faces of the envelopes are straight connecting lines of the checkpoints.

Abstract: A lawn vehicle network includes a charging station having a visual identifier, a lawn vehicle having a battery, a blade system, a drive system whose output effects lawn vehicle forward movement, a processor board connected to both systems, the processor board capable of processing image data and sending commands to both systems, and a vision assembly connected to the processor board and able to transmit image data to the processor board, and the processor board, having received the image data, able to, if the image data represent a first object, maintain the drive system's output at the time of that determination, if the image data represent a second object, change the drive system's output at the time of that determination, and if the image data represent the visual identifier, maintain the drive system's output or send a shutoff command to the vision assembly at the time of that determination.

Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: an empty stall determiner that determines, based on sensing of surroundings by a sensor section provided in a vehicle, whether or not a parking stall present in surroundings of the vehicle is an empty stall; an empty stall storing section that stores information regarding a location of the empty stall determined by the empty stall determiner in association with a passing route of the vehicle; and an automatic travel controller that generates a travel route from a current location to the empty stall based on the sensing of the surroundings by the sensor section, the automatic travel controller performing control to cause the vehicle to travel along the travel route and be parked in the empty stall in a head-in manner.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor. Before the vehicle passes through an inflection point of a curvature of a target trajectory, the processor sets a first reference point before the inflection point. After the vehicle passes through the inflection point, the processor sets a second reference point at a position where a second distance from a current position of the vehicle after the vehicle passes through the inflection point to the second reference point is longer than a first distance from a current position of the vehicle before the vehicle passes through the inflection point to the first reference point when compared under travel conditions identical in a vehicle speed, an acceleration rate, a deceleration rate, or a steering angle. The processor sets a target steering angle based on the curvature of an arc passing through the current position and the first reference point or the second reference point.

Abstract: A method for constraining robot autonomy language includes receiving a navigation command to navigate a robot to a mission destination within an environment of the robot and generating a route specification for navigating the robot from a current location in the environment to the mission destination in the environment. The route specification includes a series of route segments. Each route segment in the series of route segments includes a goal region for the corresponding route segment and a constraint region encompassing the goal region. The constraint region establishes boundaries for the robot to remain within while traversing toward the goal region. The route segment also includes an initial path for the robot to follow while traversing the corresponding route segment.

Abstract: An information providing device includes a storage section configured to register and store information related to a work robot and information on processing models related to the structures, an operation program configured to execute an operation of a work system in a virtual space by using information on the structures and information on a processing model related to the structures; and a control section configured to acquire selection information in which the information on the two or more structures and the processing model related to the structures stored in the storage section are selected, read the information on the structures and the information on the processing model included in the selection information from the storage section, execute processing of the processing model in a state in which the two or more structures are connected by the operation program in the virtual space, and output an executed processing result.

Abstract: A securement apparatus is provided that includes a robotic arm having a plurality of axes of rotation, one or more position cameras, a controller in communication with the robotic arm to control displacement and articulation of the robotic arm using at least in part, position data received from the one or more position cameras, a mirror gripper positioned at a first end of the robotic arm for engaging a mirror, and an air knife having one or more nozzles for providing an air sheet of forceful air.

Abstract: A robot controller for controlling motion of a robot includes a motion control unit configured to control the motion of the robot in accordance with an operation program, a motion path storage unit configured to store a motion path of a predetermined movable part of the robot when the robot operates in accordance with the operation program, a restricted motion area generation unit configured to generate restricted motion area data representing a restricted motion area for restricting the motion of the robot based on the stored motion path, and a motion restriction unit configured to restrict the motion of the robot in the restricted motion area based on the restricted motion area data.

Abstract: A system and strategy for reducing rapid steering wheel movement at the end of an autopark maneuver. The strategy includes maintaining or ramping-out power-steering motor torque to reduce steering wheel movement that may occur due to tire windup that has occurred up to that point in the autopark maneuver. The strategy may include the stopping of an autopark maneuver at any time during the maneuver, or functioning at the end of an autopark maneuver. The autopark event may be a park-out maneuver.

Abstract: A robotic system includes a user interface configured to receive a jog command for manually operating a robotic unit; a control unit, coupled to the user interface, configured to: real-time parallel process the jog command including to: execute a collision check thread to determine whether the jog command results in a collision or results in an unobstructed status for the robotic unit within an operation environment based on an environment model and a robot model, execute a jog operation thread to determine whether the unobstructed status is provided within a collision check time limit; and execute the jog command by the robotic unit based on the unobstructed status provided before the collision check time limit.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving controller controls one of or both steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle, and a mode determinator determines any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, in which tasks imposed on a driver in the second driving mode are less significant than in the first driving mode and one of or both steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle are controlled by the driving controller, the driving controller controls the vehicle in the second driving mode, and the driving mode is changed to the first driving mode when an abnormality occurs in a combination switch, combination switch related equipment which is connected between the driving controller and the combination switch via a communication line, or communication which is performed by the combination switch and the driving controller.

Abstract: An automatic steering control apparatus includes a lane line detector, a shape data detector, a traveling processor, and a steering angle processor. The lane line detector is configured to detect right and left lane lines. The shape data detector is configured to detect shape data. The traveling processor is configured to, in a case where both the lane lines are detected, execute a first lane-line control that is an automatic steering control to be executed on the basis of both the lane lines, and configured to, in a case where only one of the lane lines is detected as a detected lane line, execute a determining process that compares data on the detected lane line and the shape data and that determines whether to execute a second lane-line control that is the automatic steering control to be executed on the basis of only the one of the lane lines.

Abstract: Autonomous or automated mobile robots can be configured for transport and logistics applications. Systems for docking of such robots with wheeled carts can be used in methods for operation of such robots.

Abstract: An autonomous driving system configured to make an abnormality determination for an in-vehicle device at an abnormality determination point while an autonomous vehicle is driving autonomously includes: a route search unit configured to search for a travel route from a departure point to a destination point; a route determination unit configured to determine a determination route for making the abnormality determination for the in-vehicle device from the searched travel route, based on necessity of making the abnormality determination for the in-vehicle device and the number of the abnormality determination points on the travel route; and an abnormality determination unit configured to make the abnormality determination for the in-vehicle device at the abnormality determination point while the autonomous vehicle is driving along the determination route.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a moving robot that generates image information by accumulating results of sensing a corner area using a 3D camera sensor, and detects an obstacle by extracting an area for identifying the obstacle from the image information, and a traveling method thereof in corner areas.

Abstract: A mobile object control device includes a first controller that recognizes a surrounding situation of a mobile object based on an output of a detection device having a space around the mobile object as a detection range and generates a first movement plan for the mobile object in a first period based on the recognized surrounding situation of the mobile object, and a second controller that generates a second movement plan for the mobile object in a second period shorter than the first period, and when the second controller generates label data in which label information indicating different values depending on at least the presence or absence of a moving object is imparted to each of division elements obtained by dividing the space around the mobile object into a finite number, and generates the second movement plan based on the label data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transferring a pourable medium (10) from a first vessel (12) into a second vessel (14), by means of a robot arm (16), wherein a movement 118) of the robot arm (16) can be controlled by at least one movement parameter (BP), including, inter alia, the following method steps: d) determining the mass of the medium (10) transferred into the second vessel (14) as an actual filling mass (IFM), and also the variation over time of the actual filling mass (IFM) of the medium (30; as an actual mass flow (IMS), by means of a balance 124), c) calculating a correcting mass flow (StMS) as a correcting variable (26) of a first control circuit (28) while taking into account the actual filling mass (FM) and the intended filling mass (SFM), f) using the correcting variable (26) of die first control circuit (28) as a reference variable (30) of a second control circuit (32) for the purpose that the calculated correcting mass flow (StMS) is used as the intended mass flow (SMS), g) calculating

Abstract: A lane keeping control apparatus, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof, may include a processor that generates a target path based on line information, upon lane keeping control of the vehicle, determines whether the vehicle arrives adjacent to the target path, determines a feedback compensation distance in a direction opposite to a current steering direction of the vehicle based on a yaw rate of the vehicle, when the vehicle arrives adjacent to the target path, and performs steering control of the vehicle based on the feedback compensation distance and a storage storing data and an algorithm run by the processor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a moving robot, a moving robot system, and a method for moving to a charging system of the moving robot, wherein the moving robot moves to the charging system based on a reception result obtained by receiving a plurality of transmission signals transmitted from the charging station and a sensing result obtained by sensing a magnetic field state.