A remote control device includes a step information acquisition unit that acquires production step information; a target setting unit that sets a target distance between a front moving object and a rear moving object according to the production step information; a signal generation unit that generates at least one of a front first control signal as a control signal to define the running operation of the front moving object and a rear first control signal as a control signal to define the running operation of the rear moving object so as to set the actual distance between the front moving object and the rear moving object to the target distance; and a transmission unit that transmits the first control signal to the moving object subjected to control of the operation.

A method of generating driving routes of a plurality of mobile robots including generating a plurality of virtual driving lines in a driving space, generating a pattern of driving behaviors of the mobile robots based on the plurality of generated virtual driving lines, inputting an initial position and a final position of each of the plurality of mobile robots, and generating respective driving routes from the initial position to the final position of each of the plurality of mobile robots on the plurality of generated virtual driving lines based on the generated pattern of the driving behaviors.

A moving object management device manages a plurality of moving objects, each moving object having a remote control function to move by remote control. The moving object management device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire vulnerability information regarding vulnerability of the remote control function; and a disablement instruction unit configured to instruct a moving object having the vulnerability extracted by using the vulnerability information to disable the remote control function.

A mobile robot and a safety control system therefor. The safety control system includes a first monitoring circuit to movement data of the mobile robot; a second monitoring circuit to monitor whether the mobile robot collides with an obstacle; a third monitoring circuit to monitor whether an obstacle exists within a preset range of the mobile robot; a safety control circuit to generate a first safety instruction based on the movement data, a second safety instruction based on the collision signal, a third safety instruction based on the alarm signal, and a fourth safety instruction based on state information of the safety input device; a servo circuit to receive and execute a corresponding safety instruction; and a main control board to output a drive control signal to the servo circuit, for causing the servo circuit to control a motor of the mobile robot based on the drive control signal.

A mobile terminal is operated by an operator to remotely support a moving body, and includes a communication device, a touch panel, and a processor. A motion of the moving body is controlled in accordance with an operation of the operator tilting the mobile terminal while touching the touch panel. The processor is configured to: determine, as a reference angle in a specific rotation direction of the mobile terminal, a tilt angle in the specific rotation direction at a time point of detection of a touch by the operator on the touch panel; generate a control signal for the motion based on the reference angle and the tilt angle in the specific rotation direction during a control validity period in which the touch is continued from the time point of the detection; and transmit the generated control signal to the moving body via the communication device.

The present invention relates to a monitoring sensor for the spatially resolved detection of objects in a monitored zone in accordance with the principle of triangulation, comprising a light transmitter for transmitting transmitted light into the monitored zone, wherein the light transmitter comprises a light source and a transmission optics that has an optical axis; a light receiver that has a plurality of receiver elements for receiving light from the monitored zone that is remitted by an object to be detected; and a reception optics arranged upstream of the light receiver.

The invention further relates to a floor-bound vehicle having a monitoring sensor.

According to the embodiments described herein, system and methods for determining relative pose of materials handling vehicles in an industrial environment may include utilizing ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array systems respectively mounted on the materials handling vehicles to send mutually received information to determine the relative pose between the vehicles, determining one or more fields of each materials handling vehicle, and determining one or more overlapping fields between the materials handling vehicles based on the determined one or more fields and the relative pose. A vehicle control may be implemented based on the determined relative pose and the overlapping fields as a field enforcement, such as a control action to avoid collision between the vehicles.

A controller in a vehicle control system includes a communication state determiner that determines a communication state between a facility communicator and a vehicle communicator in each vehicle, and a recorder. When the communication state determiner determines that the communication state between the facility communicator and the vehicle communicator in any vehicle has a communication failure, the controller obtains vehicle state information indicating a state of a target vehicle being the vehicle having the communication failure at at least one data obtaining point in a target period including at least one of a failure-occurrence point or a failure-recovery point of the communication failure, and records the vehicle state information in the recorder.

The group control system controls a plurality of mobile objects capable of autonomously traveling in a predetermined area. The group control system includes a position information estimation unit that estimates position information of each mobile object, a route planning unit that creates a route plan of each mobile object based on the estimated position information, an acceleration data acquisition unit that acquires acceleration data acquired from the acceleration sensor, and a mobile object position acquisition unit that acquires an actual position of each mobile object using the position sensor, and learns the deep reinforcement learning model so as to correct a deviation amount between an actual position of the mobile object acquired using the position sensor and an estimated position of the mobile object based on the acquired acceleration data.

An autonomous transport robot for transporting a payload is provided and includes a frame with an integral payload support, a transfer arm connected to the frame for autonomous transfer of payload to and from the frame, and a drive section with at least a pair of traction drive wheels astride the drive section, the drive section being connected to the frame. The at least the pair of traction drive wheels have a fully independent suspension coupling each traction drive wheel of the at least the pair of traction drive wheels to the frame, with at least one intervening pivot link between at least one traction drive wheel and the frame configured to maintain a substantially steady state traction contact patch between the at least one traction drive wheel and a rolling surface over rolling surface transients throughout traverse of the at least one traction drive wheel over the rolling surface.