A method for exchanging data within a robotic system including at least three robotic units, each robotic unit having a first communication device with a short range communication reach for exchanging data with each other and a data storage. The method includes the acts of recognizing a necessity of a data transfer for a first robotic unit of the at least three robotic units, determining an area of interference of the short range communication reach of the first robotic unit and the short range communication reach of a second robotic unit of the at least three robotic units, the second robotic unit being out of the short range communication reach of the first robotic unit, determining a waypoint within the area of interference for a third robotic unit of the at least three robotic units, and commanding the third robotic unit to move to the waypoint.

A moving robot and a controlling method for the same are disclosed, in which mapping is performed along a wire provided in a boundary of a task area. According to various embodiments disclosed in the present disclosure, since the moving robot self-drives along the wire when setting the task area, a user may acquire map information corresponding to the task area without directly manipulating the moving robot.

An acquisition processing part acquires a captured image from a camera which is installed on a work vehicle. A detection processing part detects an obstacle on the basis of the captured image which is acquired by the acquisition processing part. When an obstacle is detected by the detection processing part, a reception processing part receives a traveling stop instruction for stopping automatic traveling of the work vehicle or a traveling continuation instruction for continuing automatic traveling of the work vehicle. A traveling processing part stops the automatic traveling of the work vehicle when the reception processing part receives the traveling stop instruction, and continues the automatic traveling of the work vehicle when the reception processing part receives the traveling continuation instruction.

An automatic travel system includes a prohibition boundary line setter to set a prohibition boundary line beyond which the vehicle is prohibited from entering, a turning circle setter to set a virtual turning circle as a target route for entry turning travel to enter a subsequent travel route, a transition turning travel controller to control tangent following travel using a vehicle body reference point that is calculated during travel to the virtual turning circle as a target orientation, and the entry turning travel using the virtual turning circle as a turning target route, an interference boundary line detector to detect the prohibition boundary line that is present in a moving direction of the vehicle in the tangent following travel, as an interference boundary line, and an interference avoidance travel controller to control travel for avoiding interference with the interference boundary line.

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.

An acquisition processing unit acquires position information of a predetermined position of a work vehicle in a field. A registration processing unit registers the predetermined position as a reference point when the work vehicle has traveled a predetermined distance from the predetermined position, or when a predetermined time has elapsed since the work vehicle started to travel from the predetermined position. A generation processing unit generates a target route based on the reference point.

A self-moving device, including: a moving module, a task execution module, a control module. The control module is electrically connected to the moving module and the task execution module, controls the moving module to actuate the self-moving device to move, controls the task execution module to execute a working task. The self-moving device further includes a satellite navigation apparatus, electrically connected to the control module and configured to receive a satellite signal and output current location information of the self-moving device. The control module determines whether quality of location information output by the satellite navigation apparatus at a current location satisfies a preset condition, controls, if the quality does not satisfy the preset condition, the moving module to actuate the self-moving device to change a moving manner, to enable quality of location information output by the satellite navigation apparatus at a location after the movement to satisfy the preset condition.

A system for determining a crop edge and a self-propelled harvester using the system for automatic control are disclosed. The system comprises a camera that generates optical information of a front environment of the harvester. The system further includes a computing unit that analyzes the images using artificial intelligence so that a planted area of a field on which a plant crop is located may be delimited from a remaining residual area of the field, thereby determining the plant crop. In turn, the computing unit is further configured to determine the crop edge of the plant crop based on the determination of the plant crop and to automatically control the harvester based on the determination of the crop edge.

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.