A steering control system for a vehicle that detects a magnetic field generated from an electromagnetic induction line and that is capable of autonomous travelling along said electromagnetic induction line, where the steering control system includes: a plurality of induction line detection sensors attached to said vehicle; and a control device that, for every control cycle and on the basis of a deviation of said vehicle from said electromagnetic induction line calculated from detection data acquired by said plurality of induction line detection sensors, generates and outputs a travelling control signal that causes said vehicle to turn so as to cancel the deviation or causes said vehicle to advance straight forward, wherein a deviation detection reference point of said plurality of induction line detection sensors is disposed at a position separated from a pivot serving as the turning center of said vehicle.

An outdoor power equipment system includes a removable rechargeable battery module, a robotic lawn mower, and a portable power equipment. The robotic lawn mower includes a receptacle configured to receive the battery module, and an electric motor electrically coupled to the receptacle to receive electricity to drive at least one of a wheel and a cutting implement. The portable power equipment includes a receptacle configured to receive the battery module, and at least one of an electric motor, a light source, and an amplification circuit coupled to the receptacle to receive electricity.

An external device for use with one or more robotic tools, the external device including a display and an electronic processor, where when an initiate setup button is selected by a first user input, the processor is configured to send a signal to the first robotic garden tool to travel from a dock and along a perimeter of an operating area. When the add start point button is selected by a second user input, the processor is configured to retrieve a first position of the first robotic garden tool, the first position being indicative of a first start point remote of the dock, and where the first robotic garden tool is configured to return to the dock after traveling along the perimeter and to communicate a calculated boundary length based on the data gathered by the odometry unit to the processor.

A robotic work tool system comprising at least one robotic work tool arranged to operate in a work area, the robotic work tool comprising at least one sensor and a communication interface, the robotic work tool being configured to establish a connection to a cloud service through said communication interface; receive data gathered by the at least one sensor and transmit the gathered data to the cloud service causing the cloud service to analyze the gathered data; receive operating data from the cloud service; and to operate at least one robotic work tool based on the operating data received from the cloud service.

A device for use with a robotic garden tool, the device including a display, a device network interface configured to allow the external device to wirelessly communicate with the robotic tool, and an electronic processor coupled to the display, the device network interface, and a memory. The electronic processor is configured to retrieve a first position of the robotic garden tool when an add start point button is selected, the first position being indicative of a first start point remote of the dock.

Embodiments provided herein include systems and methods for determining a two-dimensional position of a materials handling vehicle. One embodiment includes determining a position of a vehicle in a free range area of a covered environment, determining that the materials handling vehicle is entering an aisle in the covered environment, and in response to determining that the materials handling vehicle is entering the aisle, automatically enabling a second position system of the materials handling vehicle to determine a first dimension of the position using a vehicle sensor and determine a second dimension of the position using the vehicle transceiver receiving communications from a subset of transceiver anchors of the plurality of transceiver anchors. Some embodiments include utilizing the second position system to determine the position of the materials handling vehicle from the first dimension and the second dimension.

A motor vehicle including a mobile induction charging device is disclosed. The motor vehicle is configured to: receive alignment fields generated by stationary induction charging devices of parking spaces of a parking lot and to detect the signal strength and alignment frequency of the alignment fields, recognize based on a stronger alignment field and the alignment frequency of the stronger alignment field that the mobile induction charging device is to be aligned with the stationary induction charging device associated with the parking space as it approaches one of the parking spaces, and output a navigation instruction for aligning the motor vehicle on the parking space via the alignment field associated with the approached parking space.

A autonomous moving device is configured to travel and/or work in a working area. A control method comprises: obtaining an image of the working area; detecting a target area in the working area based on the image, the target area being a local area in the working area, and a distance between opposite sides of the target area being less than a threshold; determining a width of the target area; and controlling an angle and/or a distance between the autonomous moving device and a boundary of the target area based on the width of the target area.

A smart lawnmower and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the smart lawnmower, in a real world-to-simulated world (real-to-sim) training phase, the smart lawnmower constructs a simulated environment corresponding to a mowing-relevant portion of a real-world environment relative to semantic information, which may include received location signalization at an antenna In a simulated world-to-real world (sim-to-real) mowing phase, a mowing policy is applied to control the cutting subsystem and the drive subsystem in response to the semantic information, which may include the location signalization. In each of the real-to-sim training phase and the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may provide a user interface including the simulated environment. Further, in the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may synchronize the real world and the simulated world.

A lawnmower is instructed to move from a reference point along the boundary wire and to follow the boundary wire along a boundary path back to the reference point, using data from at least one wire sensor of the lawnmower. One or more elements are determined along the boundary path using distance data from at least one distance sensor of the lawnmower and using angular velocity data from at least one direction sensor of the lawnmower. The one or more elements are identified as one of at least three different types of elements. The mowing area is calculated from the identified types of the one or more elements and the distance data and angular velocity data received for the one or more elements. Other important features are obtained from the calculation of the mowing area including, but not limited to, multiple starting points and a parallel mowing pattern.