Abstract: Provided is a robot including: a chassis; wheels; electric motors; a network card; sensors; a processor; and a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: capturing, with at least one exteroceptive sensor, a first image and a second image; determining, with the processor, an overlapping area of the first image and the second image by comparing the raw pixel intensity values of the first image to the raw pixel intensity values of the second image; combining, with the processor, the first image and the second image at the overlapping area to generate a digital spatial representation of the environment; and estimating, with the processor using a statistical ensemble of simulated positions of the robot, a corrected position of the robot to replace a last known position of the robot within the digital spatial representation of the environment.

Abstract: Systems for collision avoidance for a vehicle. One or more inputs are used to determine an impending collision. Once determined, corrective actions are taken to reduce the severity of the collision. The corrective actions can avoid the collision and/or reduce the damage caused by the collision. The systems and methods can be performed at the vehicle based on data available to a control unit in the vehicle. The systems and methods can also be performed at a system level that controls one or more vehicles and/or objects.

Abstract: Provided are a marker for space recognition, a method of moving and lining up a robot based on space recognition, and a robot, and the robot that lines up and moves based on space recognition includes: a camera sensor that images a marker disposed on a traveling floor of the robot or a side of the traveling floor; and a control unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera sensor, calculates a moving direction or a moving speed of the robot on the basis of the marker, and controls a movement unit.

Abstract: A motion planning system includes: a processor; and memory to store instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: identify a reference path between a departure point and a destination point in an environment including one or more obstacles; generate decomposition segments of a space surrounding the reference path, the decomposition segments including a first free-space segment and a second free-space segment that are devoid of the obstacles; generating a first path segment relative to the reference path for traversing the first free-space segment, and a second path segment relative to the reference path for traversing the second free-space segment; and connecting the first and second path segments to each other to generate a navigational path to traverse the environment.

Abstract: A control device includes: a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot, wherein the processor is configured to: display a first edit screen on which an operation sequence of the robot can be edited by selecting images representing one or more operations among images representing a plurality of operations and arranging the images on a screen, and a second edit screen on which the operation sequence expressed in a programming language, which is obtained by converting the operation sequence edited via the first edit screen is displayed and the operation sequence expressed in the programming language can be edited, on a display; and control the robot based on the operation sequence edited via at least one of the first edit screen and the second edit screen.

Abstract: A method of obstacle handling for a mobile automation apparatus includes: obtaining an initial localization of the mobile automation apparatus in a frame of reference; detecting an obstacle by one or more sensors disposed on the mobile automation apparatus; generating and storing an initial location of the obstacle in the frame of reference, based on (i) the initial localization, and (ii) a detected position of the obstacle relative to the mobile automation apparatus; obtaining a correction to the initial localization of the mobile automation apparatus; and applying a positional adjustment, based on the correction, to the initial position of the obstacle to generate and store an updated position of the obstacle.

Abstract: A system for removing carryback material from within a dump body of a haul truck includes a clean out implement. A controller is configured to determine the pose of the dump body, determine the pose of the clean out implement, determine a path of the clean out implement to remove carryback material from the interior surface of the dump body based upon a map of the carryback material, the pose of the dump body, and the pose of the clean out implement, and generate movement command signals to move the clean out implement along the path to perform a clean out operation on the interior surface of the dump body.

Abstract: A robot automatically annotates items by training a semantic segmentation module. The robot includes one or more imaging devices, and a controller comprising machine readable instructions. The machine readable instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the controller to capture an image with the one or more imaging devices, identify a target area in the image in response to one or more points on the image designated by a user, obtain depth information for the target area, calculate a center of an item corresponding to the target area based on the depth information, rotate the imaging device based on the center, and capture an image of the item at a different viewing angle in response to rotating the view of the imaging device.

Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter includes a method and system directed for calculating azimuth of an airborne platform during flight based on IMU measurements, without using GNSS data, gyrocompassing or magnetometers operating on the ground for determining the azimuth.

Abstract: The steering system includes: a first steering device to-steer left and right wheels in a mechanically associated manner by changing an angle of left and right chassis frame components; and a second steering device to drive a supplementary turning actuator to change angles of the wheels relative to the chassis frame components. The second steering device includes a supplementary turning control section to perform a control to cause turning by a steering angle that is a difference between a steering angle determined by a numerical model of vehicle motion on the basis of the steering command angle and the vehicle velocity and an actual steering angle.

Abstract: A system has a first floor processing device guided manually by a user within an environment, a second, exclusively automatically operated floor processing device, and a computing device. The first floor processing device has a detection device for detecting a parameter of the environment and/or a surface to be processed, and the second floor processing device has a navigation device for navigating and self-localizing in the environment. In order to enable an optimal floor processing of the environment with as little assistance by the user as possible, the computing device is set up, based on the parameter detected by the detection device of the first floor processing device, to determine whether a specific partial surface area of the surface to be processed is suitable for floor processing by the second floor processing device.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium for displaying an AR navigation are provided. The method may include: recognizing a navigation scene at a current moment during an AR navigation; determining, according to a preset mapping relationship between a navigation scene and a service function, a current service function corresponding to the navigation scene at the current moment; and displaying the current service function corresponding to the navigation scene at the current moment in the navigation scene at the current moment. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, different service functions may be flexibly displayed for different navigation scenes. Therefore, a multi-channel output in the different navigation scenes may be realized, thus saving maintenance time and a maintenance cost.

Abstract: A slave manipulator manipulates a medical device in response to operator manipulation of an input device through joint control systems. The stiffness and strength of the slave manipulator are adjustable according to criteria such as the mode of operation of the slave manipulator, the functional type of the medical device currently being held by the slave manipulator, and the current phase of a medical procedure being performed using the slave manipulator by changing corresponding parameters of the control system. For safety purposes, such changes are not made until it is determined that it can be done in a smooth manner without causing jerking of the medical device. Further, an excessive force warning may be provided to surgery staff when excessive forces are being commanded on the slave manipulator for more than a specified period of time.

Abstract: A serving system using a robot may include a caller mounted on each of a plurality of tables, and a robot driving to a target table among the plurality of tables based on information received from the caller, and the robot may store information on the location of each of the plurality of callers, the size and shape of each of the plurality of tables, the location of the caller mounted on the table, and the rotational angle with respect to a baseline of the caller, and the caller may transmit to the robot information on the distance from the caller to the robot and the direction of the robot with respect to the caller during driving of the robot.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product provide vehicle driving assistance, wherein candidate travel routes for the vehicle are analyzed to identify one of the travel routes as a selected travel route. The selection includes calculating a route cost associated with directing the vehicle to ride over a center of a travel lane, for each of the candidate routes and selecting the one with the lowest cost.

Abstract: Four-wheel steering of a vehicle, e.g., in which leading wheels and trailing wheels are steered independently of each other, can provide improved maneuverability and stability. A first vehicle model may be used to determine trajectories for execution by a vehicle equipped with four-wheel steering. A second vehicle model may be used to control the vehicle relative to the determined trajectories. For instance, the second vehicle model can determine leading wheels steering angles for steering leading wheels of the vehicle and trailing wheels steering angles for steering trailing wheels of the vehicle, independently of the leading wheels.

Abstract: A system for teaching a robot includes a wearable device having a plurality of sensors for sensing signals representing at least one movement, orientation, position, force, and torque of any part of a user's body applied on a target. The system further includes a processing device configured to receive the sensed signals, the processing device further configured to store the sensed signals defining as data of teaching commands, a controller for controlling a robot receives the data of teaching commands and operates the robot according to the received data of teaching commands, an object sensor to detect position and orientation of an object as a workpiece of the robot, and a visual input device communicatively coupled to at least one of the processing device and the controller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a storage unit configured to store congestion information for each road link by time zone; and a control unit configured to obtain information about a departure place, a destination and an arrival deadline from a user, and to determine a route connecting between the departure place and the destination and a movement schedule including a departure time and an estimated arrival time; wherein the control unit determines the movement schedule that allow a user to arrive at the destination by the arrival deadline and to move through the route in a required time shorter than a predetermined value set for each route.

Abstract: Provided is a movement robot configured so that various types of operation can be executed according to motion of other objects or a movement body and a utilization area can be expanded accordingly. The movement robot includes a robot body 1, a control unit 2, a traveling unit 3, and a detection unit 4.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed generating candidate trajectories and selecting one of them to be implemented. In particular, a computing system can obtain an initial travel path for an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can obtain sensor data describing objects within an environment of the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can generate a plurality of trajectories for the autonomous vehicle based on the sensor data and the initial travel path. The computing system can determine whether the initial travel path, an offset profile, and a velocity profile meet flatness criteria. In response to determining that the initial travel path, the offset profile, and the velocity profile meet the flatness criteria, the computing system can combine the initial travel path, the offset profile, and the velocity profile into the respective trajectory. The computing system can determine a trajectory from the plurality of trajectories.