The present disclosure relates to a tracking system for tracking a position and orientation of an object, the tracking system including: a tracking base provided in an environment, the tracking base including: a tracking head support; and, at least three tracking heads mounted to the tracking head support, a target system including at least three targets mounted to the object, each target including a reflector that reflects a radiation beam to the base sensor of a respective tracking head; and, a control system that: causes each tracking head to track a respective target as it moves throughout the environment; determines a position of each target with respect to a respective tracking head; determines an orientation of the target system using at least in part the determined position of each target; and, determines the position and orientation of the object using at least in part the position and orientation of the target system.

Link for an articulated manipulator, comprising a tubular body extending along a longitudinal axis thereof and having a first joint end and a second joint end, wherein the first joint end and the second joint end define a first joint plane and a second joint plane, respectively. The first joint plane and the second joint are each at an inclination angle with respect to the longitudinal axis, wherein the first joint plane is arranged parallel to a first axis and wherein the second joint plane is arranged parallel to a second axis, the longitudinal axis being perpendicular to the first axis and second axis, and wherein the first axis and second axis are at a mutual twist angle of at least one times the inclination angle.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a method for charging a robot and apparatus thereof. The invention according to the environment map and robot self-positioning information which is the position and orientation of the robot in the environment map, moves the robot to a position near a potential or registered charging pile; uses acquisition apparatuses such as laser to carry out line extraction of the structural data of the identification when the robot moves to short-range pile-searching connecting area, and combines with the preset structural data of the identification template, to carry out the recognition of the charging pile, after the collected structural data of the identification and the structural data of the identification template satisfy the preset matching degree, then the charging pile can be connected to the robot for charging.

An apparatus for measuring a thread includes a holder for detachably holding a tube having a thread formed at an end of the tube. A first optical measuring section having an optical sensor is attached to a manipulator in order to move the measuring section relative to the tube. The optical measuring section is adjustably tiltable about a first adjusting axis relative to a thread axis of the thread. A second optical measuring section having a second optical sensor is arranged at the manipulator, wherein the optical measuring sections collectively form a measuring channel to provide simultaneous measurement of opposite sides of the thread of the tube.

A method for operating a transport robot includes receiving image data representative of a group of objects. One or more target objects are identified in the group based on the received image data. Addressable vacuum regions are selected based on the identified one or more target objects. The transport robot is command to cause the selected addressable vacuum regions to hold and transport the identified one or more target objects. The transport robot includes a multi-gripper assembly having an array of addressable vacuum regions each configured to independently provide a vacuum. A vision sensor device can capture the image data, which is representative of the target objects adjacent to or held by the multi-gripper assembly.

In an embodiment a system includes: an automated vehicle configured to traverse a first predetermined path; and a sensor system located on the automated vehicle, the sensor system configured to detect a vertical obstacle along the first predetermined path along one or two floorboards ahead of the automated vehicle, wherein the automated vehicle is configured to traverse a second predetermined path in response to detecting the vertical obstacle.

There is provided a robot including a first light source, a second light source, an image sensor and a processor. The processor is used to calculate an image quality of an image frame captured by the image sensor when the second light source is being turned on. The processor then determines whether to switch the second light source back to the first light source according to the image quality to accordingly identify the material of an operation surface.

An articulated arm coordinate measuring machine includes an arm having multiple segments and an end assembly. The end assembly has multiple accessory interfaces that allow multiple accessories to be coupled to the end assembly. The accessory interfaces are configured to allow the accessories to be repeatably interchanged between the accessory interfaces.

A transporter network for determining robot actions based on sensor feedback can afford robots with efficient autonomous movement. The transporter network may exploit spatial symmetries and may not need assumptions of objectness to provide accurate instructions on object manipulation. The machine-learned model of the transporter network may also allow for learning various tasks with less training examples than other machinelearned models. The machine-learned model of the transporter network may intake observation data as input and may output actions in response to the processed observation data.

Provided is a manipulator including: a link; a joint unit configured to rotate the link; and a distance sensor configured to detect an obstacle entering in a monitoring space that is determined so as to include at least a rotating direction side of the link, the distance sensor being installed so that a sensing direction faces a direction parallel to a surface of the link. Further, provided is a moving robot including the aforementioned manipulator.