Abstract: Detectors detect a user's touch operation to an airframe, and a motor control unit controls rotations of motors, based on the user's touch operation detected by the detectors. The motor control unit is configured to have a hovering function of making the airframe automatically perform a stationary flight at a hovering position. The motor control unit keeps the setting of the hovering function off during a period while the detectors are detecting a user's touch operation, and when the detectors stop detecting a user's touch operation, the motor control unit sets the hovering function on.

Abstract: A robot cleaner for recognizing a stuck situation through artificial intelligence includes a driving unit to drive the robot cleaner, a sensing unit configured to acquire three-dimensional (3D) image data and a bumper event, a memory configured to store a stuck situation recognition model for inferring the stuck situation of the robot cleaner, and a processor configured to convert the 3D image data and the bumper event into surrounding map image data, infer the stuck situation of the robot cleaner from the 3D image data and the bumper event using the stuck situation recognition model, and control the driving unit according to an inference result.

Abstract: A method of controlling a cleaning robot includes: acquiring a marked position of a charging station in a map; controlling the cleaning robot to travel to a front position of the marked position and identifying the charging station; when the charging station is not identified, generating a finding path based on the marked position; and controlling the cleaning robot to travel in accordance with the finding path and identifying the charging station in a traveling process.

Abstract: A vehicle steering system, including: a steering actuator including an electric motor, a steering rod configured to steer a wheel by a steering amount, and a motion converting mechanism configured to convert a rotating motion of a motor rotation shaft into a motion of the steering rod; first and second motor rotation angle sensors configured to detect a motor rotation angle; a steering amount sensor configured to detect a motion amount of the steering rod as the steering amount; and a controller configured to execute a steering amount control and to perform detection-value inappropriateness determination in which it is determined that any one or two of a detection value of the first motor rotation angle sensor, a detection value of the second motor rotation angle sensor, and a detection value of the steering amount sensor are inappropriate based on comparison among the detection values.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling a vehicle steering system, which are capable of improving a sense of unity between driver's driving input and vehicle motion and the stability of the vehicle by estimating a side slip angle and performing return control, may include an assist torque determination module for determining assist torque for steering assist, a return control module for determining steering return torque for returning the steering wheel to a neutral position, a side slip angle estimation module for estimating a side slip angle, a side slip control module for determining a return control gain value in a response to the estimated side slip angle, a correction unit of correcting the determined steering return torque in a response to the return control gain value, and a torque compensation unit of determining final assist torque by compensating the determined assist torque with the corrected steering return torque.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a grasping control device controls a grasping device including grasping members to grasp an object. The grasping control device includes a selector, a first determination unit and a controller. The selector selects at least one grasping form for the object based on first information relating to the object, from among a plurality of grasping forms determined by a number and an arrangement of the grasping members. The first determination unit determines a usage form realizing the selected grasping form, from among a plurality of usage forms determined by at least one of second information relating to the grasping device and third information relating to an obstacle. The controller controls the grasping device such that at least one of grasping members grasps the object according to the determined usage form.

Abstract: A vehicle lane change assist apparatus of the invention determines that objects approaching a vehicle and having a predicted reaching time equal to or shorter than a predetermined predicted reaching time, satisfy a first condition and selects the objects satisfying the first condition as condition-determining-target-candidate objects with the number of the condition-determining-target-candidate objects being limited to a first number. The apparatus selects the condition-determining-target-candidate objects satisfying a second condition, as condition-determining-target objects with the number of the condition-determining-target objects being limited a second number equal to or smaller than the first number when a lane change assist control is requested.

Abstract: An automatic driving assistance apparatus includes a driving state acquirer, an own vehicle location acquirer, a traveling environment information acquirer, a branch lane determining unit, a lane change calculator, and a traveling state controller. The driving state acquirer acquires a driving state of an own vehicle. The own vehicle location acquirer acquires a location of the own vehicle. The traveling environment acquirer acquires a traveling environment in which the own vehicle is traveling. The branch lane determining unit examines whether a target travel path toward which the own vehicle travels is set to a branch lane direction. The lane change calculator obtains a deceleration start position and a lane change start position of the own vehicle. The traveling state controller controls a traveling state of the own vehicle based on the deceleration start position and the lane change start position.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments a 6 degree-of-freedom (6DoF) correction trajectory in order to compensate movement of a treatment target in a patient supported by a patient support end-effector. An embodiment operates by receiving a starting end-effector position, a starting clinical target position, and a target destination position. The target destination position corresponds to a position in space receiving targeted treatment from a treatment delivery device. The embodiment determines a destination end-effector position in 6DoF associated with the end-effector that would cause the target to be positioned on the target destination position. A trajectory is calculated between the starting end-effector position and the destination end-effector position.

Abstract: A control method of a motor driven power steering (MDPS) for a vehicle may include determining a steering angle of a steering wheel of the vehicle; determining a steering torque variation rate of the vehicle; counting an exceeding number of times that the steering torque variation rate exceeds a predetermined value to store the counted number of times in an MDPS system; and deleting the number of times stored in the MDPS system when the exceeding number of times is less than a predetermined number of times, and applying a reverse phase compensation torque to a steering motor when the exceeding number of times is equal to or larger than the predetermined number of times.

Abstract: A traffic control system that controls mobile drive unit traffic within a facility by segmenting the map into smaller traffic control policy areas and controlling access to those traffic control policy areas in response to travel requests from mobile drive units.

Abstract: A robot includes a robot body, a control processor, a detection circuit, a memory, and a determining circuit. The control processor is configured to control the robot body to perform a work on a workpiece while the workpiece is conveyed. The detection circuit is configured to detect external force which the robot body receives from the workpiece. The memory is to store a threshold force. The determining circuit is configured to determine whether the external force is equal to or larger than the threshold force.

Abstract: To provide a working machine including a lower travelling body and an upper slewing body disposed in a slewable manner with respect to the lower travelling body, the working machine being capable of more reliably preventing the upper slewing body from coming into contact with an obstacle existing around the working machine. The working machine includes a detection device, a position identification device, and a movement control device. The position identification device includes a calculation section, a conversion section, and an identification section. The movement control device controls the movement of the upper slewing body in such a way as to prevent the upper slewing body from coming into contact with the obstacle based on the position of the obstacle relative to the virtual boundary surface, the position being identified by the identification section.

Abstract: A robotic system includes a docking station, a mobile working machine, and an electronic device. The mobile working machine includes a machine body and a transmission wheel device disposed on the machine body for loading and moving the machine body. The electronic device is detachably connected to the mobile working machine. The docking station includes a station base and a transferring device disposed on the station base for selectively carrying the electronic device away from the mobile working machine.

Abstract: Techniques for transferring highly dimensional movements to lower dimensional robot movements are described. In an example, a reference motion of a target is used to train a non-linear approximator of a robot to learn how to perform the motion. The robot and the target are associated with a robot model and a target model, respectively. Features related to the positions of the robot joints are input to the non-linear approximator. During the training, a robot joint is simulated, which results in movement of this joint and different directions of a robot link connected thereto. The robot link is mapped to a link of the target model. The directions of the robot link are compared to the direction of the target link to learn the best movement of the robot joint. The training is repeated for the different links and for different phases of the reference motion.

Abstract: A work vehicle control system includes an actual topography acquisition device, a storage device, and a controller. The actual topography acquisition device acquires actual topography information which indicates an actual topography of a work target. The storage device stores design topography information which indicates a final design topography which is a target topography of the work target. The controller acquires the actual topography information from the actual topography acquisition device. The controller acquires the design topography information from the storage device. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement along a first locus that follows a slope of the actual topography, and a second locus positioned above the actual topography and below the final design topography in front of the first locus.

Abstract: In some implementations, a navigation service can provide a plurality of navigation instructions for a user to traverse a route to an intended destination. The navigation service can also identify at least one portion of the determined route that requires additional guidance based on one or more factors. For each portion of the route that requires additional guidance, the navigation service may generate one or more additional guidance instructions to be inserted within the plurality of navigation instructions, forming an enhanced set of instructions for traversing the route.

Abstract: An automatic parking control apparatus includes a vehicle state determiner configured to determine whether a host vehicle is in a double-parked state in which a gear state of the host vehicle is neutral (N) and a starting state of the host vehicle is off, a movement detector configured to, when it is determined that the host vehicle is in the double-parked state, detect whether the host vehicle is moving, a parking space detector configured to, when it is detected that the host vehicle is moving, perform monitoring in a direction opposite to that of the detected movement and detect a parking space, and a controller configured to, when the parking space is detected, calculate a travel path for parking the host vehicle in the detected parking space and control the host vehicle so that the host vehicle is parked along the travel path.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a path planning system and method for a robot, the robot and a medium. The method includes: preselecting, by the path planning system for the robot, one or more position points from paths on which the robot can move in a predetermined regional map as reference positioning points; and if an instruction of moving the robot from a first position point to a second position point is received, analyzing a path from the first position point to the second position point according to the set reference positioning points and according to a predetermined path analysis rule, and controlling the robot to move to the second position point on the basis of the analyzed path.

Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture that handle secondary robot commands in robot swarms may operate by receiving, at a receiving device in a swarm of devices, a packet included in a signal broadcast within an environment from a transmitting device in the swarm of devices; parsing the packet for a command associated with a primary effect and a secondary effect; in response to determining that the receiving device is paired with the transmitting device, implementing, by the receiving device, the primary effect; and in response to determining that the receiving device is not paired with the transmitting device, implementing, by the receiving device, the secondary effect.