A device includes an optical sensing unit configured to sense an object so as to obtain a picture of the object. The device includes a drive unit configured to drive and to move the device. The device includes an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the picture in terms of an at least two-dimensional pattern and to evaluate the pattern in terms of at least a first marking area and a second marking area. The evaluation unit is configured to obtain a marking result by comparing the first marking area and the second marking area, and to determine, on the basis of the marking result, relative localization of the device with regard to the object. The device includes a control unit configured to control the drive unit on the basis of the relative localization.

According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for rescuing a malfunctioning drone is provided. The present invention may include responsive to detecting a total failure in a malfunctioning drone comprising a drone fleet, operating one or more rescue drones to physically or virtually attach to the malfunctioning drone; reconfiguring sub-missions comprising a mission assigned to the drone fleet based on an absence of the malfunctioning drone and the one or more rescue drones; and transporting, by the one or more rescue drones, the malfunctioning drone to a safe landing location.

A delivery system, including a robot and an application of a communication device. The robot includes a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: receiving, with the processor, a first location to deliver the one or more items to; obtaining, with the processor, first data of an environment captured by a camera disposed on the robot; detecting, with the processor, at least one object in the environment based on at least the first data; actuating, with the processor, the robot to drive around the at least one object; and actuating, with the processor, the robot to transport the one or more items to the first location while avoiding collision with objects detected in the environment.

The invention relates to the transport of a load with a transport system comprising a first driven transport chassis and a second driven transport chassis, wherein in a first driving manoeuvre the second transport chassis follows the first transport chassis, wherein after the end of the first driving manoeuvre and switching to a second driving manoeuvre an alignment of the second transport chassis takes place, wherein after the alignment the load is transported with the transport system in the second driving manoeuvre, wherein in the second driving manoeuvre the second transport chassis follows the first transport chassis, wherein expediently at least one of the, preferably both, transport chassis can be freely positioned under the load.

In a system for controlling a number of mobilities, in which the mobilities include a driving mobility and a driven mobility that can be mechanically connectable to the driving mobility by a mechanical coupling. The driving mobility and the driven mobility may be communicatively connected to each other. The system may include a control server that is communicatively connected to the driving mobility and the driven mobility, and is configured to receive data confirming a state of the driving mobility and the driven mobility, determine whether a connection condition is satisfied based on the data, and transmit a connection command to the driving mobility and the driven mobility in response to the connection condition being satisfied. A method for controlling a number of mobilities using the system is further disclosed.

A distributed control system and method for decentralized, collaborative platform navigation, routing, and/or control are disclosed employing a distributed, factorized positioning, navigation, and timing chain that can link platforms or nodes having local sensors together by their local inertial and ranging measurements. In the distributed, factorized PNT chain, each platform maintains and contributes local measurements as states to a set of dynamically assigned parent node for a platform cluster, each parent nodes and associated clusters links to at least one other parent node aggregates the states of the platforms in the cluster and passes/propagates states of a linked clustered.

A vehicle platooning system includes a lead vehicle including a lead powertrain system, a lead steering system, and a lead breaking system, a follower vehicle including a follower powertrain, a follower steering system, a follower braking system, and a follower vehicle control unit wherein the follower powertrain system, the follower steering system, and the follower braking system are each controllable by the vehicle control unit, and a hard connect including a mechanical linkage physically connected between the lead vehicle and the follower vehicle, a sensor unit, and a hard connect control unit configured to control the operation of the follower powertrain system, the follower steering system, and the follower braking system of the follower vehicle based on sensor data provided to the hard connect control unit by the sensor unit.

The present disclosure relates to a method, comprising: determining a state of an autonomous mobile device in response to a command received from a remote control apparatus; causing, in response to determining that the autonomous mobile device is in a first state, the autonomous mobile device to move toward a target to a first location; and causing the autonomous mobile device to move from the first location to a second location so as to release one or more mobile vehicles on the autonomous mobile device.

A semantic sensing system includes a processor, a memory, a plurality of wireless communication enabled devices and at least one sensing element, the memory storing a plurality of mapped endpoints wherein the processor is configured to apply semantic drift or entropy to determine non-affirmative circumstances based on inputs from the at least one sensing element to cause the system to perform semantic augmentation towards a first endpoint supervisor in relation with the non-affirmative determinations.

A mobile carrier includes a controller, the controller executing program instructions to implement operations including moving the mobile carrier to move toward a target, wherein a first mobile vehicle and a second mobile vehicle are stacked on the mobile carrier; lifting the second mobile vehicle away from the first mobile vehicle; and placing the second mobile vehicle down to a predetermined location after the first mobile vehicle moves away from the mobile carrier.