Disclosed is a cleaning robot including: a driving unit configured to move the cleaning robot; an obstacle sensor configured to sense an obstacle; and a controller configured to reduce, if a distance between the cleaning robot and the obstacle is shorter than or equal to a reference distance, a driving speed of the cleaning robot so that the driving speed of the cleaning robot is lower than a shock absorbing speed when the cleaning robot contacts the obstacle.

Disclosed are a method and system for generating a virtual boundary of a working region of a self-moving robot, and a self-moving robot and a readable storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring several recording points of a mobile positioning module circling along a patrol path; storing recording points corresponding to the first circle walked in a first storage linked list, and storing the remaining recording points in a second storage linked list; successively retrieving each recording point in the first storage linked list and taking the recording point as a basic coordinate point, and querying the second storage linked list to successively select m recording point groups corresponding to each basic coordinate point; according to each basic coordinate point and the m recording point groups corresponding thereto, respectively acquiring a boundary fitting point corresponding to the basic coordinate point, and forming a boundary fitting point sequence; acquiring boundary points according to the boundary fitting point sequence; and successively connecting the boundary points to generate a virtual boundary of a working region. In the present disclosure, a virtual boundary is generated according to recording points corresponding to a patrol path, such that human labor costs are reduced, and the working efficiency is improved.

An agricultural work assistance system includes a display to display a map representing an agricultural field, and a controller configured or programmed to define or function as an area setter to set a first area and a second area located inward of the first area in the map displayed by the display, and a route creator to create, in at least one of the first area or the second area, a travel route along which an agricultural machine is to travel. The route creator is configured or programmed to set at least a portion of the travel route as an automatic steering route on which the agricultural machine is to be automatically steered and a travel speed of the agricultural machine is to be changed manually.

A robotic working apparatus includes: a working robot configured to perform work while autonomously traveling in a set working area; and a controller configured to control motion of the working robot and including a working area setting section configured to partition and set the working area. The working area setting section sets an individual enclosed area overlapping with an existing working area.

A method of creating a virtual boundary for a robotic garden tool includes receiving location coordinates of a location in which the robotic garden tool is intended to be operated. The method also includes retrieving, from a first server and based on the location coordinates, a preexisting visual media file of the location in which the robotic garden tool is intended to be operated. The preexisting visual media file includes metadata that includes coordinate information of the location shown in the preexisting visual media file. The method includes generating virtual boundary coordinates of the virtual boundary based at least partially on the preexisting visual media file and the coordinate information. The method includes controlling, with a first electronic processor of the robotic garden tool, the robotic garden tool to be confined by the virtual boundary to remain in an operating area during operation of the robotic garden tool.

Some embodiments may include a working machine to perform one or more work tasks in a work area, the working machine comprising: a machine localization system to localize the working machine based on perception sensor observations indicative of data embedded on one or more markers placed in the work area or proximate to the work area, wherein the working machine obtains localization data responsive to reading one or more machine-readable optical images on the one or more markers, respectively, wherein the working machine determines, using the obtained localization data, an absolute position of the working machine or one or more absolute positons of the one or more markers, respectively; and wherein the working machine performs the one or more work tasks based on the determined absolution position(s). Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

A method for controlling a plurality of mobile robots is to be implemented by a server that communicates with the plurality of mobile robots and a communication device. The server stores a predetermined working route related to a target area. The method includes steps of: receiving a working instruction from the communication device, the working instruction including area information related to the target area and an input quantity of mobile robots; in response to receipt of the working instruction, dividing the predetermined working route into a plurality of sub-routes, wherein a quantity of the sub-routes equals the input quantity of mobile robots; and sending the sub-routes respectively to a plurality of selected robots that are selected from among the plurality of mobile robots to make the selected robots cooperatively implement a task on the target area by moving along the sub-routes, respectively.

A management system of a work site includes: a workplace data acquisition unit that acquires workplace data set in a workplace where an unmanned haul vehicle travels; and a sprinkling area setting unit that sets, on the basis of the workplace data, a sprinkling area on which the unmanned sprinkler vehicle sprinkles water in the workplace.

A concrete surface processing machine (100) for processing a concrete surface, wherein the concrete surface processing machine is arranged to be supported on the concrete surface by one or more support elements (150) extending in a base plane (101) of the machine parallel to the concrete surface, wherein the concrete surface processing machine comprises a control unit (110) connected to at least one linear photo sensor (130) extending transversally to the base plane (101), and wherein the control unit (110) is arranged to detect a height (h) of an incoming laser beam (H) relative to the base plane (101), based on a point of incidence of the incoming laser beam (H) on the linear photo sensor (130).

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.