Abstract: One or more aspects of the present disclosure are directed to fixturing mechanisms for placement of battery cells inside an ultrasonic testing system. The disclosed fixturing mechanisms enable accurate and predictable loading, placement, and unloading of battery cells inside ultrasonic testing systems allowing all faces of battery cells of different types (e.g., pouch cells, prismatic cells, cylindrical cells, etc.) to have sufficient exposure to transmission and reception of acoustic signals. This fixturing mechanism furthers the goal of providing a robustly designed ultrasonic test system and producing accurate inspection results for batteries.

Abstract: A power machine can be configured to automatically travel along a planned path based on pursuit of a target point. A location of the target point along the planned path can be determined based one or more of local curvature of the planned path or travel speed of the power machine. In some cases, a circular buffer can be used to store mapping data.