An apparatus including an indicator and a video sensor arranged to generate sensor data dependent on a state of the indicator, control circuitry configured to select the state of the indicator, to process instructions received in the apparatus from a remote driving station, to provide to the remote driving station the sensor data and to at least one of: provide to the remote driving station an indication of the indicator's selected state to enable the remote driving station to detect a malfunction in the sensor data, and obtain an observation of the state of the indicator, based on the sensor data, and determine whether the observation and the selected state of the indicator are consistent, to detect a malfunction in the sensor data, wherein the apparatus is a remotely operated vehicle, or configured to be installed in one.

This traveling system includes: a setting processing unit that sets a travel route corresponding to each of the plurality of automatic traveling devices; a calculation processing unit that, when a first automatic traveling device interferes with a travel of other automatic traveling devices, calculates an evaluation value representing an influence level that the first automatic traveling device imposes on the travel of the other automatic traveling devices; and a change processing unit that, when the evaluation value calculated by the calculation processing unit is greater than or equal to a threshold, changes the travel route that is set to the first automatic traveling device by the setting processing unit.

Some embodiments may include a touchscreen or other user input interface to select part of a displayed map and one or more processors coupled to the touchscreen or other user input interface. The one or more processors may be configured to setup an autonomous operating zone for a working machine based on a user selection from a displayed map. The working machine may monitor its current location with respect to the autonomous operation zone, and may de-actuate at least one of its actuator(s) or send a new actuation signal to its actuator(s) to change an operation of at least one motorized device of the working machine. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

An example method to control an autonomous vehicle includes receiving a first signal and receiving a second signal. The first signal includes a first set of parameters that define a planned trajectory for the autonomous vehicle. The second signal includes a second set of parameters that define a planned trajectory for the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes generating a third signal by modifying the first set of parameters of the first signal to include the second set of parameters of the second signal. The method also includes outputting the third signal.

Some embodiments may include a working machine to perform one or more work tasks in a work area, the working machine comprising: a machine localization system to localize the working machine based on perception sensor observations indicative of data embedded on one or more markers placed in the work area or proximate to the work area, wherein the working machine obtains localization data responsive to reading one or more machine-readable optical images on the one or more markers, respectively, wherein the working machine determines, using the obtained localization data, an absolute position of the working machine or one or more absolute positons of the one or more markers, respectively; and wherein the working machine performs the one or more work tasks based on the determined absolution position(s). Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

A conveyance system according to the present disclosure includes a host vehicle position estimation unit that detects at least one of a traveled distance of a conveyance vehicle and a position of the host vehicle, and a control switching unit that switches, when the traveled distance or the position of the host vehicle detected by the host vehicle position estimation unit falls within a preset range while the conveyance vehicle is being controlled by an autonomous traveling control unit, a control mode from traveling control by the autonomous traveling control unit to traveling control by a guided traveling control unit.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of intelligent home, and provides a cleaning robot escape method, a cleaning robot escape device, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. The cleaning robot escape method includes: detecting, when the cleaning robot encounters an obstacle while cleaning along an edge of a first surface medium region and turns around, a second surface medium region in response to a surface medium change signal from the surface medium sensor, and determining whether a path allowing the cleaning robot to bypass the second surface medium region exists; controlling, if the path exists, the cleaning robot to travel along the path to avoid the second surface medium region; and ignoring, if the path does not exist, the surface medium change signal from the surface medium sensor, and controlling the cleaning robot to turn around and return along an original path.

This application discloses a self-moving device, a method for adjusting a movement trajectory. The device includes a body, an image acquisition module, and a control circuit. The image acquisition module acquires an image in a traveling direction of the body. The control circuit fits, according to the image, a boundary corresponding to a working region in which the self-moving device is located. In response to the body moves toward the boundary and the body and the boundary meet a preset distance relationship, an angle relationship between the traveling direction of the body and the boundary is recognized according to the image, and the body is controlled to steer.

A robot includes: at least one memory storing first map data corresponding to a first region of a specific space; a distance sensor configured to acquire distance data while the robot travels in the specific space; and at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one memory and the distance sensor. The at least one processor is configured to: based on second map data acquired based on the distance data, compare the first map data and the second map data and generate a comparison result, and based on identifying, based on the comparison result, that an error does not exist in the second map data and that the second map data comprises information on a second region, update the first map data with the second map data.

An autonomous distributed coordination system is provided which is intended to be used for a broad-area search in an unknown environment without the need for a prior plan and map sharing. It includes: a sensor input processing section 302 for acquiring (i) relative position information relative to another mobile body, (ii) path information in past and (iii) surrounding shape information; other mobile body avoidance module 310 for generating, based on the relative position information, a first action candidate for avoiding the another mobile body; a past path avoidance module 311 for generating, based on the path information, a second action candidate for avoiding the path information in the past; an obstruct avoidance module 312 for generating, based on the depth information, a third action candidate for avoiding a surrounding obstruct; and an integration module 313 for determining a velocity or angular velocity of the mobile body based on the first action candidate, the second action candidate and the third action candidate.