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.

A buried person search device using a detachable module is disclosed. The device includes a ground drone 10 deployed at a site of a collapse disaster, the ground drone 10 having a communication device 80 and a first beacon, a camera device 40 mounted on the ground drone 10 to photograph surroundings of the ground drone 10, a storage 50 installed on the ground drone 10, a plurality of repeater modules 60 connected by a wireless communication network to relay wireless communications between the ground drone 10, a flying drone 32, and a command and control center 100, each of the repeater modules 60 having a second beacon, and a sensing device 70 installed on the ground drone 10 or the repeater modules 60 to collect a sound, wherein the storage 50 accommodates the repeater modules 60, and throws the repeater modules 60 in response to an operation signal.

A UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) including a first barometer and a processing unit is provided. The first barometer provides a first air pressure value. The processing unit is coupled to the first barometer for receiving the first air pressure value from the first barometer, performing timing-synchronization on the first air pressure value provided by the first barometer and an external reference air pressure value provided by an external reference barometer to obtain a timing-synchronized first air pressure value and recalculating the timing-synchronized first air pressure value to generate a compensated air pressure value, wherein the processing unit performs data fusion calculation on the first air pressure value, the compensated air pressure value and a sensor data to obtain a target fused data and real-timely controls the altitude and the posture of the UAV according to the target fused data.

An agricultural autonomous vehicle is provided which is operable to traverse a field and perform one or more detection tasks.

An agricultural autonomous vehicle is provided which is operable to traverse a field and perform one or more detection tasks.

A method of operation of an unmanned autonomous vehicle includes autonomously maneuvering the unmanned autonomous vehicle about a facility, collecting gas concentration data using one or more sensors carried on or integrated with the unmanned autonomous vehicle, and monitoring the collected gas concentration data to detect a high concentration due to a gas leak. The method further includes, if a high concentration is detected, estimating a location of the gas leak and maneuvering the unmanned autonomous vehicle toward the estimated location of the gas leak.

A computer-implemented method for autonomously exploring, by a mobile robot, one or more objects of interest, the mobile robot comprising a computing unit and a laser scanner module for scanning surfaces of the one or more objects of interest, the laser scanner module having a field of view. The method comprising defining a 3D exploration map, wherein the one or more objects of interest are situated in the exploration map, partitioning the exploration map into a multitude of 3D exploration blocks, and an autonomous exploration of the exploration map by means of the mobile robot, wherein the exploration comprises, by the laser scanner module, generating scan data related to a point cloud while the mobile robot is travelling along an exploration path.

A method is usable to inspect an environmental device includes using a mobile inspection device to collect data of a site where the environmental device is positioned, generating information of changes in the site where the environmental device is positioned based on the data collected by the mobile inspection device, acquiring operation data of the environmental device and information of an initial operation time of the environmental device, and identifying a health state parameter of the environmental device. The health state parameter of the environmental device is identified based on the information of changes in the site where the environmental device is positioned, the operation data of the environmental device, and the information of the initial operation time of the environmental device.

A method for characterizing a radiofrequency environment, comprising: obtaining measurements of geometrical properties of physical objects in the environment, geometrical properties including at least respective positions and dimensions of objects, simulating radiofrequency ray-tracings involving a multiplicity of simulated rays, each ray being: emitted by a transmitter located in said environment in a transmitter position, and/or received by a receiver located in said environment in a receiver position, each pair of a transmitter and a receiver positions defining therebetween a radiofrequency path where rays possibly interact with at least a part of objects, selecting, among all the paths, at least one path defined by rays interacting with the objects which interact the most with rays, obtaining radiofrequency measurements of a radiofrequency channel defined by the selected path and estimating radiofrequency properties of objects interacting in selected path, radiofrequency properties and geometrical properties of objects characterizing thereby environment.

A method, an apparatus for continuous path planning, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method designs the optimization function based on the rapidly exploring random tree to plan path, and the optimal path is screened out from the random tree according to target function including the reconstruction completeness optimization function, the path effectiveness optimization function, and the path smoothness optimization function when the reconstruction degree of the preset sampling points is determined to meet the preset requirement.