The present invention makes an instruction for causing a transport robot to carry out transport easier for a person to understand. A transport system (1) is such that an address indicating a transport destination or a transport source is represented by a tree structure including a node indicating loading locations and a node indicating equipment to which the loading locations are provided, and when the address of the transport destination indicates equipment, a transport robot (20) sequentially loads objects to be transported in accordance with a preset loading priority order in loading locations where no objects to be transported have been loaded, from among the loading locations belonging to that equipment.

In order to allow for the mounting of two transported objects without increasing the width of a transport vehicle, a mobile manipulator (1) is provided with: an unmanned transport vehicle (2); a robot base portion (3) mounted on the unmanned transport vehicle; a robot arm (4) mounted on the robot base portion; and brackets (5), (6) for mounting cassettes (11) over the robot base portion. The bracket (5) holds the cassettes in an inclined state, and a part of the bracket (6) overlaps the bracket (5) in plan view.

An apparatus for efficient targeting or removal of weeds or other plants. The apparatus may include a vehicle having a frame, a motor and a plurality of ground engaging members adapted to propel the vehicle over a surface. It may also include a robotic arm comprising a distal portion and a proximal portion coupled to the frame, and an implement, such as a tool or hoe connected to the distal portion of the robotic arm. The implement can be raised and lowered, and also moved relative to the surface by the robotic arm by pivoting or rotating the robotic arm at or near the proximal portion.

The present disclosure discloses an autonomous mobile grabbing method for a mechanical arm based on visual-haptic fusion under a complex illumination condition, which mainly includes approaching control over a target position and feedback control over environment information.

According to the method, under the complex illumination condition, weighted fusion is conducted on visible light and depth images of a preselected region, identification and positioning of a target object are completed based on a deep neural network, and a mobile mechanical arm is driven to continuously approach the target object; in addition, the pose of the mechanical arm is adjusted according to contact force information of a sensor module, the external environment and the target object; and meanwhile, visual information and haptic information of the target object are fused, and the optimal grabbing pose and the appropriate grabbing force of the target object are selected.

By adopting the method, the object positioning precision and the grabbing accuracy are improved, the collision damage and instability of the mechanical arm are effectively prevented, and the harmful deformation of the grabbed object is reduced.

A conveyance robot system according to the present disclosure includes an intrusion detection sensor that detects an intrusion of an object into the arm opening, and a distance sensor that measures a clearance distance indicating a distance between an arm entry/exit surface and a shelf, the arm entry/exit surface being a surface of the conveyance robot in which the arm opening is provided from among surfaces of the conveyance robot 1 constituting the safety cover, and the object being stored in the shelf. The distance sensor is disposed at a fixed height of the shelf in a horizontal direction and at a height of the shelf corresponding to a part to be measured.

A robotic post includes a processor and a memory. The robotic post may include a manipulation arm and a swiveling or otherwise movable trunk or base. One or more sensors provided on the robotic post enable the robotic post to determine the position and location of a piece of luggage. The processor, based on the sensor input, causes the robotic post to rotate, tilt or move toward the luggage to orient and secure a hook or gripper onto the handle of the luggage. The post may move, under control of the processor, to another location. When presented with authorization by a user, the luggage is released at the second location.

There is provided a method of controlling a mobile manipulator for tracking a surface. The mobile manipulator includes a mobile base movable in an axial direction of the mobile manipulator and a manipulator supported on the mobile base having an end effector adjustable in a lateral direction of the mobile manipulator. The method includes detecting the surface from the mobile manipulator, including positions of the surface at points along the surface, determining a reference path for the end effector to track based on an offset from the surface detected, determining a tracking error in the reference path determined, and adjusting a position of the end effector in the lateral direction based on the tracking error to compensate for the tracking error in the reference path determined. There is also provided a corresponding mobile manipulator.

A method and system for determining position and/or pose of an object. A robotic device moves throughout an environment and includes a master transceiver tag and, optionally, additional tags. The environment includes a plurality of anchor nodes that are configured to form a network. A master anchor node is in communication with at least a portion of the plurality of anchor nodes and is configured to transmit a ranging message as a UWB signal, receive a ranging message response from each other anchor node in the network, generate a reference grid representing physical locations of the plurality of anchor nodes within the network based upon the received ranging message responses, and distribute the reference grid to each of the other anchor nodes. The master transceiver tag receives the reference grid information and, based upon further calculations, determines a specific position and pose of the robotic device within the environment.

Provided is an autonomous moving body that controls driving wheels by allowing a trailing caster to be located on a front side with respect to a traveling direction when it is recognized that there is no step in a traveling direction and controls the driving wheels to change the orientation of a base body in which the driving wheels and the trailing caster are arranged and approach the step so that at least one of two driving wheels contacts the step before the trailing caster contacts the step when it is recognized that there is a step in the traveling direction.

A mechanical tower climber system for performing operations on a cell tower includes a body; a plurality of members disposed or connected to the body and each comprising one or more robotic hands; and a wireless interface and a processing device configured to receive commands from a remote operator; climb the cell tower based on the commands; and perform one or more operations on cell site components associated with the cell tower based on the commands and manipulation of the plurality of members and associated one or more robotic hands.