A flight management system for a plurality of aerial vehicles includes a management apparatus and an operation terminal. The management apparatus includes processing circuitry to manage operation authorizations to operate the plurality of aerial vehicles. The operation terminal includes an operation interface and processing circuitry. The operation interface is operable by an operator. The processing circuit is connected to the operation interface. Based on an authorization grant request signal obtained based on a flight state of each aerial vehicle of the plurality of aerial vehicles, the processing circuit of the management apparatus transmits an authorization grant command to grant the operation terminal an operation authorization, among the operation authorizations, that is to operate a particular aerial vehicle among the plurality of aerial vehicles. The processing circuit of the operation terminal remotely controls the particular aerial vehicle while being granted the operation authorization to operate the particular aerial vehicle.

An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.

A self-driving device control system of the present invention includes an entry restricted area, at least one entrance opened and closed by a closing member, a self-driving device, and a control device, and further includes an outside identification device, an inside identification device, and a storage device. When identification information is acquired by the outside identification device, the control device sets the self-driving device to a stopped state. If the storage device is not storing even one piece of entry identification information regarding a worker for which a corresponding piece of exit identification information regarding the same worker is not stored in the storage device, and furthermore all of the entrances are in a passage restricted state, the control device resumes the driving of the self-driving device.

A waste collection system includes a movable waste box to automatically travel by using a sensor group including cameras, a sonar, a millimeter wave radar, and a LiDAR, and a supervision apparatus to manage the movable waste box. The movable waste box autonomously moves by following path information indicating a path. The movable waste box includes a waste box to accept waste a person who is present partway on a path has. The supervision apparatus includes a path information generating unit to generate the path information and to transmit the path information to the movable waste box.

An agricultural assistance system includes a controller configured or programmed to control an operation of one or more agricultural machines. In response to receiving from a terminal apparatus a signal requesting assistance in agricultural work for a field, the controller is configured or programmed to cause the one or more agricultural machines to move to the field to assist in the agricultural work for the field.

The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for optimized assignment of traversal tasks under imperfect sensing of autonomous vehicles. Most of the techniques assumes perfect equipment conditions. With the imperfect sensing, most of the optimized assignment and scheduling algorithm may not be effective during actual execution of the tasks. The present disclosure solves the technical problems in the art by providing an analytical model which estimates the basic performance metrics such as an expected travel duration and safety estimation such as collision probability on its path, under imperfect sensing, for optimal assignment of the tasks. An analytical model is integrated with a performance estimator as implemented by the systems of the present disclosure, which tracks, predicts, and alerts on any major deviations from its intended performance of safety parameters.

A system comprises a management system comprising at least one processor configured to define a set of queueing spaces associated with a workspace location for reach of a plurality of locations. In response to a request by an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) for access to the location, the management system is configured to grant access to the requesting AMR if the location is unoccupied or direct the requesting AMR to a queueing space associated with the location if the location is occupied by another AMR. In response to a signal indicating the location has been exited by the other AMR, the management system is configured to send instructions to the requesting AMR granting access to the location.

A method, system and non-transitory computer readable medium includes obtaining an electronic map of an agricultural field. One or more assignment instructions for each of a plurality of robotic systems in an assigned team are generated to optimize execution of a selected agricultural task with respect to at least one parameter based on the obtained electronic map, a number of the robotic systems in the team, and at least one capability of each of the robotic systems in the team. The robotic systems in the team are managed based on wireless transmission of the generated assignment instructions to the robotic systems.

Disclosed is a task performance method of a system configured to perform a task on a delivery object using a plurality of robots assisting a worker. The task performance method of a system includes assigning, by the server, at least one task of a plurality of tasks stored in advance to a first robot among the plurality of robots, determining, by the server, a path for arranging the first robot to a first location in which at least one delivery object related to the task assigned to the first robot is stored, guiding, by the server, the first robot to the first location according to the determined path, and guiding, by the server, the first robot arranged in the first position to a second position.

A method includes: storing, at a mobile robot, a local repository of self-assigned task definitions; determining, at a processor of the mobile robot, that a local activity metric associated with tasks assigned to the mobile robot by a central server meets an idle criterion; in response to determining that the local activity metric meets the idle criterion, selecting, by the processor, one of the self-assigned task definitions from the local repository; and initiating execution of a self-assigned task corresponding to the selected self-assigned task definition at the mobile robot.