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 respectively 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.

An acquisition processing unit acquires position information of a work vehicle traveling in a predetermined area in response to a traveling operation by an operator. A recording processing unit records the position information, as a traveling trajectory of the work vehicle, and temporarily stops recording processing of recording the position information, in a case where the work vehicle is brought to a state in which the position information cannot be acquired during traveling. A notification processing unit notifies the operator of information indicating that the recording processing is temporarily stopped. A setting processing unit registers a field, based on the position information.

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 method is provided for managing and tracking scouting tasks to obtain map information using a fleet of autonomous vehicles. For instance, the method includes defining a scouting quest to obtain the map information. The scouting quest includes a plurality of objectives. Each objective is associated with a geographic location from which sensor data is to be captured. The method also includes receiving a first update message from an autonomous vehicle of the fleet. The update message identifies a location of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes assigning at least one of the objectives to the autonomous vehicle based on the location of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes sending instructions to the autonomous vehicle in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to complete the at least one objective and after sending, tracking a status of the scouting quest.

A sewer inspection or maintenance system is provided having a sensor system with which at least three distances between a predetermined first point in the sewer pipe and the sewer wall of the sewer pipe are detected. The system has a processing unit adapted for determining a diameter of the sewer pipe and a predetermined second point in the sewer pipe based on the detected distances, and for determining a horizontal offset and a vertical offset between the predetermined first point and the predetermined second point based on the determined diameter and the detected distances. The system also has a positioning unit which is adapted to correct the position of an inspection unit in the sewer pipe by the two offsets. A corresponding method is provided as well.

An individual access element to a room in a household can be brought into an open state and into a closed state. A method for recognizing an individual state of the access element includes the steps of determining a position at which an individual access element is located in the household, non-contact scanning the individual access element while it is in a predetermined state, storing information regarding the individual access element on the basis of its scan and state, capturing a further non-contact scan of the individual access element in the household, and recognizing a state of the individual access element on the basis of the further non-contact scan and the stored and predetermined information. A floor robot and a system having a floor robot, are also provided.

An optimized coverage-path planning method for a single unmanned surface mapping vessel (USMV) is implemented with a system including a computer processor executing a computer program loaded in a storage device and implanting the method. The method includes rasterizing and initializing an environmental map, and an unmanned vessel outputting position data and obstacle data according to the environmental map so that path planning is started to provide a target point to the unmanned vessel. In case of tripping in a local optimum at a current-level map for the target point, the map level is updated in an ascending order until the highest level, in order to identify a map level in which the target point is found.

An unmanned device for a marine environment comprises a location sensor configured to gather location data corresponding to the unmanned device; at least one propulsion system; a transmitter and memory including computer program code. The computer program code is configured to, when executed, cause the processor to cause the propulsion system to propel the unmanned device in a pattern along the body of water, cause the sonar transducer to emit the one or more sonar beams into the body of water, receive sonar return data corresponding to sonar returns, and generate a sonar image corresponding to the sonar return data. Further, the computer program code is configured to cause the processor to detect an object within the sonar image, assign a score to the object indicating the likelihood that the object is a desired object type, and send an alert to the remote electronics device upon assignment of the score.

A vehicular system includes a measuring unit attached to a vehicle to detect a magnetic marker laid along a traveling road, a database storing position information of the magnetic marker, and a control unit that acquires the position information of the magnetic marker by referring to a storage area of the database. The database has stored therein position information of each magnetic marker to which a distance from a reference point on the traveling road as a starting point to each magnetic marker is linked. By referring to the database by using a distance traveled until the magnetic marker is detected after the vehicle passes over the reference point, position information of newly detected magnetic marker is acquired.