A portable robotic platform system and method for automatically detecting, locating, and marking underground assets are provided. The portable robotic platform includes a housing with a sensor module including ground penetrating radar (GPR), LiDAR, and electromagnetic (EM) sensors. The robotic platform automatically collects GPR and EM data and uses onboard post-processing techniques to interpret the sensor data and identify the location(s) of underground infrastructure. The portable robotic platform can be deployed to apply paint to a ground surface to identify the located underground assets.

Stored data structures describe a plurality of paths used to work within a field of a work region. The paths include at least one transition path used to enter or exit the field. The plurality of paths are presented to an operator via a user interface and facilitate arrangement of the plurality of paths into an ordered collection that together defines sequentially executed movements and operations of an autonomous work vehicle within the work region. The ordered collection is stored via a network-accessible data center where it can be user selected. In response to the selection, the ordered collection is downloaded from the data center to the autonomous working vehicle in order to perform the sequentially executed movements and operations within the work region.

Disclosed are a method for determining a working start point in a movement limit frame of a robot (P) and a method for controlling movement of a robot. The method for determining the working start point includes: setting a limit frame on a map constructed by the robot (P); and selecting, according to an overlap relation between a map area framed by the limit frame and the map constructed by the robot (P), an overlap area for developing a working start point of the robot (P), and determining a center point (O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O6, O7, O8) of the overlap area which is selected as the working start point in the limit frame of the robot (P); and the limit frame encloses an area for limiting a working range of the robot (P).

A map display method comprises: obtaining room map data and regional map data; drawing a room map according to the room map data, and drawing a regional map layer on the room map according to the regional map data; and displaying the room map that is covered by the regional map layer.

An automatic working system, a turning method thereof, and a self-moving device. When the self-moving device reaches a boundary, a control module controls a movement module to turn to leave the boundary. In addition, the control module may control, based on coverage values corresponding to each movement range when the self-moving device reaches the boundary, the movement module to turn to a movement range with a coverage value that meets a preset requirement.

Embodiments of the present application provide a method, device, storage medium, and electronic device for controlling flight equipment, wherein the method includes: acquiring positioning position information from a positioning system deployed on a target flight equipment; detecting an operating state of the positioning system according to positioning position information, wherein the operating state comprises: normal state and abnormal state; when the operating state is an abnormal state, controlling the target flight equipment to return to a ground control terminal according to the relative position information between the target flight equipment and the ground control terminal of the target flight equipment.

Systems, methods, and devices are provided herein for controlling one or more movable objects via a graphical user interface. A method for controlling a movable object may be provided. The method may comprise obtaining one or more parameters of a target object, and generating a motion path for the movable object based on the one or more parameters of the target object. The motion path may comprise a plurality of spatial points that are defined relative to the one or more parameters of the target object. The plurality of spatial points may be configured to be on one or more planes.

A method of operating a mobile robot includes generating a segmentation map defining respective regions of a surface based on occupancy data that is collected by a mobile robot responsive to navigation of the surface, identifying sub-regions of at least one of the respective regions as non-clutter and clutter areas, and computing a coverage pattern based on identification of the sub-regions. The coverage pattern indicates a sequence for navigation of the non-clutter and clutter areas, and is provided to the mobile robot. Responsive to the coverage pattern, the mobile robot sequentially navigates the non-clutter and clutter areas of the at least one of the respective regions of the surface in the sequence indicated by the coverage pattern. Related methods, computing devices, and computer program products are also discussed.

A system for autonomous or semi-autonomous operation of a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a machine automation portal (MAP) application configured to enable a computing device to (a) display a map of a work site and (b) provide a graphical user interface that enables a user to (i) define a boundary of an autonomous operating zone on the map and (ii) define a boundary of one or more exclusion zones. The system also includes a robotics processing unit configured to (a) receive the boundary of the autonomous operating zone and the boundary of each exclusion zone from the computing device, (b) generate a planned command path that the vehicle will travel to perform a task within the autonomous operating zone while avoiding each exclusion zone, and (c) control operation of the vehicle so that the vehicle travels the planned command path to perform the task.

The automatic traveling system includes a generation processing unit, an acquisition processing unit, and a correction processing unit. The generation processing unit generates a target route along which the work vehicle is caused to travel automatically. The acquisition processing unit acquires a correction position of the target route. The correction processing unit corrects the target route based on the correction position.