A method for controlling a warehouse robot to store or retrieve an inventory item on a shelf. The method includes: receiving an instruction to transport the inventory item, obtaining a position of the inventory item from the received instruction, directing the warehouse robot to move to the location of the inventory item, detecting a position shift of the inventory item away from the obtained position based on the location and the orientation of the inventory item, adjusting a position of the warehouse robot to compensate for the position shift, retrieving the inventory item from storage, and transporting the inventory item to a destination.

A method for ascertaining a position of at least one transport apparatus includes the step of capturing and ascertaining. The transport apparatus is configured to transport at least one component of a conveyor system. The step of capturing includes capturing at least one marking arranged in an area of a travel path, along which the transport apparatus travels through at least one route section, with an optical capture device of the transport apparatus. The step of ascertaining includes ascertaining a multidimensional position of the transport apparatus in the space with an electronic computing device, as a function of the captured marking.

A method for managing one or more robots that includes providing a zone subject to restrictions in a structure; providing robots in the zone subject to restrictions; applying a limit to or inhibiting operating functions of the robots, detecting the presence of a predetermined number of first identification elements in the zone for each of the robots, detecting the presence of a predetermined number of second identification elements of the zone subject to restrictions, which are of a different type from that of the first identification elements for which the presence of the predetermined number of first identification elements has been detected and for which the presence of the predetermined number of second identification elements is detected, disapplying the limit or allowing functions; when, for a number of robots the limit has been disapplied or functions has been allowed, actuating the robots to perform operating tasks in the zone.

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Aspects of the present application relate to an order fulfillment system that may include one or more product induction regions. A given product induction region may include a plurality of product storage apparatuses, each holding a plurality of products, and a product transfer apparatus operable to transfer a product, among the plurality of products, into a shipping container. The order fulfillment system may include autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). An AMR may move to a shipping container delivery system to receive a shipping container and then move the shipping container to the product transfer apparatus to receive the product. The AMR may then move to a further location for further processing of the shipping container. The order fulfillment system may be combined with a production system. The product storage apparatuses may be universal crates, which may be returned to production system when empty to be refilled with products.

A method for determining the position of a work vehicle in a silo facility including detecting via a detection device associated with the work vehicle at least one stationary identification feature, looking up via a control unit on the basis of the at least one stationary identification feature from a database a position associated therewith with respect to a predetermined reference position inside the silo facility including a number of bunker silos, calculating via the control unit a spatial location of the work vehicle relative to the stationary at least one identification feature, setting via the control unit the spatial location by comparison with the looked-up position of the at least one stationary identification feature with respect to the predetermined reference position, and outputting via the control unit the spatial location as the current position of the work vehicle.

This disclosure describes monitoring and operating subsea well systems, such as to perform operations in the construction and control of targets in a subsea environment. A submerisble ROV that performs operations in the construction and control of targets (e.g., well completion components) in a subsea environment, the ROV has one or more imaging devices that capture data that is processed to provide information that assists in the control and operations of the ROV and/or well completion system while the ROV is subsea.

An autonomous driving control system for a vehicle that travels on a road provided with a marker that emits a steady magnetic field or a quasi-steady magnetic field includes: a magnetic sensor array that is equipped on the vehicle and senses magnetism; and an information processing circuit that generates an image showing a magnetic field in a region closer to the marker than the magnetic sensor array, according to a sensing result of the magnetism and a fundamental equation of the steady magnetic field and the quasi-steady magnetic field, and controls travel of the vehicle according to the image.

A navigation system for navigating an autonomous mobile robot in an environment is provided. The navigation system includes at least one optical sensor attached to the autonomous mobile robot, a controller in communication with the at least one optical sensor, and a plurality of optical identifiers distributed within the environment at fixed locations and detectable by the at least one optical sensor. Each of the plurality of optical identifiers encodes a location within the environment. The controller is configured to obtain pictures of the environment via the at least one optical sensor, detect visible optical identifiers of the plurality of optical identifiers, which are within a field of view of the at least one optical sensor, decode the visible optical identifiers, and navigate the autonomous mobile robot based on real-time localizations of the autonomous mobile robot within the environment using the decoded visible optical identifiers.

Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for recognizing driving information using multiple sensors. The method for recognizing driving information according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes generating a magnetic sensing signal from magnetic paint applied to road markings, generating a frequency-converted signal using the magnetic sensing signal, and generating driving information for a vehicle using the frequency-converted signal.

A map generation device that generates a route. The map generation device includes: a node detector that detects a node; a node information obtainer that obtains detected node information including location information of the detected node and path information indicating a positional relationship between the detected node and a path connected to the detected node; a node determiner that determines whether the detected node information matches previously-reached node information; a node information adder that adds, to the route map, the detected node information as new previously-reached node information when the node determiner determines a mismatch; and a map corrector that, when the node determiner determines a match, determines that the detected node corresponding to the detected node information and a node corresponding to the previously-reached node information are a same node and corrects the route map.