Provided is a path planning method of a handling device, a handling device, and an electronic device. The method includes: based on position information of a target goods placement area in a truck bed and an initial position, determining a handling path corresponding to the target goods placement area, where the handling path includes a first handling path including a turn-around position and a loading-unloading position corresponding to the target goods placement area; sending the handling path to a target handling device such that the target handling device, based on the first handling path, travels to the turn-around position in a forward mode, and rotates at the turn-around position to enable a bearing assembly of the rotated target handling device to face toward the target goods placement area, and then travels, in a backward mode, to the loading-unloading position to perform goods loading or unloading operations.

Provided is a path planning method of a handling device, a handling device, and an electronic device. The method includes: based on position information of a target goods placement area in a truck bed and an initial position, determining a handling path corresponding to the target goods placement area, where the handling path includes a first handling path including a turn-around position and a loading-unloading position corresponding to the target goods placement area; sending the handling path to a target handling device such that the target handling device, based on the first handling path, travels to the turn-around position in a forward mode, and rotates at the turn-around position to enable a bearing assembly of the rotated target handling device to face toward the target goods placement area, and then travels, in a backward mode, to the loading-unloading position to perform goods loading or unloading operations.

According to the embodiments described herein, system and methods for determining relative pose of materials handling vehicles in an industrial environment may include utilizing ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array systems respective mounted on the materials handling vehicles to send mutually received information to determine the relative pose between the vehicles, determining one or more fields of each materials handling vehicle, and determining one or more overlapping fields between the materials handling vehicles based on the determined one or more fields and the relative pose. A vehicle control may be implemented based on the determined relative pose and the overlapping fields as a field enforcement, such as a control action to avoid collision between the vehicles.

A system and method are described that provide for queueing robot operations in a warehouse environment based on workflow optimization instructions. In one example of the system/method of the present invention, a control system causes certain robots to queue proximate to one another to permit resources to be obtained, transported, deposited, etc. without the robots crashing into one another (or into other objects), or forming traffic jams. A robot may remain at an assigned queue position at least until another position assigned to the robot becomes available.

A location information system includes: an autonomous mobile robot that has map data of a specific area and a sensor configured to estimate a location of a vehicle by detecting surrounding condition and that is configured to travel in the specific area; a communication terminal to be carried by a person in the specific area; and a location information providing portion that is configured to provide the autonomous mobile robot with information regarding a location of the person based on short-range wireless communication with the communication terminal.

A device includes: an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire measured appearance information on an appearance of a mobile body; a movement information acquisition unit configured to acquire movement information on movement of the mobile body; a determination unit configured to determine whether a deficiency has occurred in the measured appearance information; a complement unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the deficiency has occurred, use the movement information to complement the deficiency in the measured appearance information; and an estimation unit configured to estimate at least one of a position and an orientation of the mobile body by comparing reference appearance information on the appearance of the mobile body with the measured appearance information, and, in a case where the determination unit determines that the deficiency has occurred, compare the complemented measured appearance information with the reference appearance information.

Disclosed are various embodiments for optimizing robot utilization in autonomous mobile robots by accounting for the battery charge state when assigning missions to be performed by the autonomous mobile robots in a material handling facility. In particular, mission data associated with one or more missions and robot data including a battery charge state associated with one or more robots can be analyzed to determine a robot mission assignment that accounts for battery state charge in order to maximize robot utilization and productivity of material handling tasks.

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 computing system may be configured as a fleet controller for autonomous mobile robots operating within a physical environment. The system may include a communication interface receiving sensor data from the robots including image data captured by visible light cameras located on the robots, an environment mapper determining a global scene graph representing the environment and identifying navigable regions of the environment, a workflow coordinator determining a workflow including tasks to be performed within the environment by one or more of the robots in cooperation with a human, and a route planner configured to determine routing information for the one or robots including a nominal route from a source location to a destination location. The robots may be configured to autonomously navigate the environment to execute the tasks based on the routing information.

Techniques for asset tracking. A method includes identifying a starting point event based on an asset carrier interacting with an asset at a starting point location. An ending point event is identified. The ending point event is detected based on an ending point event activity of the asset carrier around an ending point location. The asset is identified with respect to the starting and ending point events. A path of the asset between the starting and ending point locations is determined based on locations occupied by the asset carrier between the starting point event and the ending point event. The path includes multiple locations of the asset at different times and the locations occupied by the asset carrier between the starting point event and the ending point event correspond to respective times. Locations of the assets at any of the different times may be determined based on the path.