Abstract: A robot system including a plurality of robots, controllers that respectively control the robots, hands attached to wrist ends of the robots and configured to hold and release a workpiece, and a sensor configured to detect that the workpiece is being held by the hands of the robots. The controllers are interconnected and configured to exchange signals so that the robots operate in coordination in response to an operation command that includes a coordination command, and prohibit operation of each of the robots based on an operation command that lacks a coordination command in a state in which the sensor detects the workpiece being held.

Abstract: A modular vehicle management system is described, comprising a controller module configured to control different types of carrier modules. The controller module includes a computer system and optionally one or more sensors. The computer system is configured to perform operations comprising detecting whether a carrier module is connected to the controller module. If the carrier module is connected to the controller module, the carrier module is authenticated. If the authentication fails, operation of the vehicle is inhibited. The control module is configured to determine carrier module capabilities including information regarding a navigation processing device, and/or a radio modem. The controller adapts to the capabilities of the controller module. Using information from the sensors and the navigation processing device, the vehicle management system navigates the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for a remote collaboration, as a method for providing an augmented reality (AR)-based remote collaboration between a robot located in a worksite, a field worker terminal, and a remote administrator terminal located outside the worksite, includes acquiring a captured image including a field image captured by a robot located at the worksite or a captured image including a user image captured by the field worker terminal, displaying the captured image of the worksite, generating virtual content based on an input of a remote administrator and a field worker with respect to the displayed captured image, and displaying an AR image in which the virtual content is augmented on the displayed captured image.

Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive a set of points indicating a lane boundary; select a first subset of the points, wherein the set of points includes a first point that is not in the first subset; determine a path of the lane boundary based on the first subset of the points; and, upon determining that the first point is greater than a threshold distance from the path, add the first point to the first subset.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a robot control method, apparatus and device, a computer storage medium and a computer program product and relate to the technical field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: acquiring environment interaction data and an actual target value, indicating a target that is actually reached by executing an action corresponding to action data in the environment interaction data; determining a return value after executing the action according to state data, action data and the actual target value at the first time of two adjacent times; updating a return value in the environment interaction data by using the return value after executing the action; training an agent corresponding to a robot control network by using the updated environment interaction data, and controlling the action of a target robot by using the trained agent.

Abstract: A robotic work tool system (200) comprising a robotic work tool (100), the robotic work tool (100) being configured to determine (410) that the robotic work tool (100) has entered a state of limited movement; determine (420) an exit path; and exit (430) the state of limited movement by navigating the exit path.

Abstract: An erroneous start suppression device equipped with an electronic control unit that controls a drive device that generates a driving force of a vehicle, and the electronic control unit determines whether or not an accelerator operation of a driver is an erroneous operation based on whether or not a predetermined determination condition is satisfied; limits a driving force generated by the drive device when the electronic control unit determines that the accelerator operation of the driver is an erroneous operation; determines whether or not the vehicle is towing a towed vehicle; and changes the predetermined determination condition so that it becomes difficult to determine that the predetermined determination condition is satisfied when it is determined that the vehicle is towing a towed vehicle.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for air traffic control (ATC) flight management are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive airport information associated with an airport, generate, using the airport information, an ATC flight management analysis that includes an airport map showing locations of aircraft at the airport and a card panel including a number of flight cards, where each respective one of the number of flight cards corresponds to a different respective one of the aircraft at the airport, and a user interface to display the ATC flight management analysis in a single integrated display.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a primary axle, a secondary axle, and a powertrain. The powertrain has an engine coupled to the primary axle and selectively coupled to the secondary axle. The vehicle also includes a clutch associated with the secondary axle. A controller is programmed to, responsive to (i) a request to shift from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive and (ii) a current engine-torque command exceeding a torque limit associated with the clutch, override the current engine-torque command to reduce a torque of the engine below the torque limit, and, responsive to the torque of the engine being less the torque limit, command engagement of the clutch.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatically cleaning a portion of an environment. One of the methods includes detecting, by an automated cleaning system, movement within a physical environment; determining, by the automated cleaning system and using data that represents the movement, that one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least a portion of the physical environment are satisfied; and in response to determining that the one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least the portion of the physical environment are satisfied, sending, by the automated cleaning system, an instruction to a device in the physical environment to cause the device to initiate a cleaning process of at least the portion of the physical environment.

Abstract: A crane in which a boom that is capable of derricking and extending/retracting is provided to a swiveling base includes: an operable-range-setting unit that sets an operable range in which a load being transported can be transported, the operable range being set according to the weight of the load; a path generation unit that generates, within the set operable range, a plurality of nodes through which the load can pass and a plurality of paths connecting adjacent nodes; and a transport path determination unit that determines a transport path of the load on the basis of a priority sequence for actuating a plurality of actuators of the crane, the transport path satisfying a prescribed condition, and being determined from the generated plurality of nodes and plurality of paths.

Abstract: Methods and devices for generally fungible robots that autonomously cooperate to transport a load are provided. A method of transporting a load includes providing first and second robots each having a motive mechanism independently operable from the other. Each robot obtains estimates of a width, length, and height of the load. Each robot can obtain estimates of a weight or stability information of the load. Each robot autonomously determines how to engage the load for transportation based at least partially on the width, length, height, and weight of the load, as well as physical limitations of each robot and the terrain between the load and the delivery point. The robots autonomously cooperate with each other to transport the load. In another aspect, robots autonomously monitor the stability of a load, determine optimum configuration for stable transport of the load, and reconfigure based on stability changes during transport.

Abstract: A system for control of an automated device includes a control system configured to operate a device during an operating mode corresponding to a first state in which the control system automatically controls operation, the operating mode prescribing that a user monitor the device operation during automated control, and a scheduling module configured to, during the operating mode, receive a request for the user to temporarily stop monitoring in order to perform a task unrelated to the device operation, allocate a time period during which automated control is maintained and the user stops monitoring, the time period including a non-monitoring period having a duration based on a minimum amount of time for the task, and put the device into a temporary state at initiation of the allocated time period during which the user stops monitoring and automated control is maintained.

Abstract: A method performed by a surgical robotic system. The method determines a surgical procedure that is to be performed using a robotic arm. The method determines, for the robotic arm, a planned trajectory based on the surgical procedure, where the planned trajectory is from a current pose of the robotic arm to a predefined procedure pose that is within a threshold distance from a trocar that is coupled to a patient. The method drives the robotic arm along the planned trajectory from the current pose to the predefined procedure pose.

Abstract: To obtain a rider-assistance system capable of providing a rider of a straddle-type vehicle with a sense of comfort and safety during a turn, and a control method for such a rider-assistance system. The present invention provides the rider-assistance system that assists with driving by the rider of the straddle-type vehicle and includes a controller.

Abstract: A method for estimating the absolute angular position of a steering wheel equipping a power-steering device, referred to as “relative steering wheel position”, of the shaft of a power-steering motor is assessed, a first estimation (Angle1) of the absolute angular position of the steering wheel is assessed from at least one first model using the speed difference between the left and right rear wheels, a first dynamic offset equal to the difference between the first estimation (Angle1) of the absolute angular position of the steering wheel and the relative steering wheel position is estimated, and the absolute angular position of the steering wheel is calculated by adding to the relative steering wheel position a total compensation offset determined from the first dynamic offset, also when restarting the vehicle, a switching-off offset corresponds to the value of the total compensation offset at the time when the vehicle was previously switched off.

Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes an image processor and a camera that views through the windshield of the vehicle. The camera captures image data as the vehicle travels along a road, and the image processor processes image data captured by the camera. The vehicular vision system, responsive at least in part to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, determines when the vehicle is at a construction zone. Responsive to determining that the vehicle is at the construction zone, the vehicular vision system adjusts a vehicular driver assistance system of the vehicle. The vehicular vision system determines that the vehicle exits the construction zone based at least in part on processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera.

Abstract: In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method for autonomous vehicle control includes determining whether a cargo container is attached to the vehicle base. The method includes controlling a front shield associated with an autonomous vehicle to move from a closed position to an opened position when a cargo container is determined to be attached to a vehicle base associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes controlling the front shield to move from the opened position to the closed position when the cargo container is not attached to the vehicle base.

Abstract: A vehicle control method and apparatus to reverse a trailer are provided. The method includes storing a moving path of a trailer connected to the vehicle by a hitch, measuring a location of the trailer or a heading of the trailer when the trailer is reversed upon activation of a reversing mode, comparing the location of the trailer or the heading of the trailer in the stored moving path of the trailer with the measured location of the trailer or the measured heading of the trailer, and minimizing a difference between the location of the trailer in the stored moving path of the trailer and the measured location of the trailer, or a difference between the heading of the trailer in the stored moving path of the trailer and the measured heading of the trailer, and t performing an operation of reversing the trailer.

Abstract: A method for operating a two-wheeler. The two-wheeler includes a drive unit and a sensor system, the sensor system including a rotation rate sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a wheel speed sensor. The wheel speed sensor detects at least one measuring pulse per revolution of a wheel of the two-wheeler. The method includes: detecting three-dimensional rotation rates of the two-wheeler, detecting acceleration values of the two-wheeler, and estimating a motion state of the two-wheeler based on the detected rotation rates, the motion state including estimated values for estimated acceleration values and an estimated speed and an estimated distance covered, first correction of the estimated motion state based on the detected acceleration values, ascertaining an instantaneous steering angle of the two-wheeler based on the corrected estimated motion state, and actuating the drive unit and/or an antilocking system of the two-wheeler as a function of the ascertained instantaneous steering angle.