A method of operating a mobile robot includes generating a segmentation map defining respective regions of a surface based on occupancy data that is collected by a mobile robot responsive to navigation of the surface, identifying sub-regions of at least one of the respective regions as non-clutter and clutter areas, and computing a coverage pattern based on identification of the sub-regions. The coverage pattern indicates a sequence for navigation of the non-clutter and clutter areas, and is provided to the mobile robot. Responsive to the coverage pattern, the mobile robot sequentially navigates the non-clutter and clutter areas of the at least one of the respective regions of the surface in the sequence indicated by the coverage pattern. Related methods, computing devices, and computer program products are also discussed.

Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. In particular, a method may include receiving first sensor data from a first sensor disposed on a vehicle, the first sensor data associated with a first sensor modality, and receiving second sensor data from a second sensor disposed on the vehicle, the second sensor data associated with a second sensor modality different than the first sensor modality. The method may further include generating fused sensor data representing at least a portion of the first sensor data and the second sensor data, generating a trajectory for the vehicle based in part on the fused sensor data, and controlling the vehicle based in part on the trajectory.

A system providing a barrier for an autonomous floor cleaner includes an artificial barrier generator that radiates one or more infrared emission patterns. An autonomous floor cleaner can be configured to detect an overlapping emission pattern made of partially overlapping encoded infrared emissions. Methods for containing an autonomous floor cleaner within a user-determined boundary are disclosed.

A vehicle may include an authority tracker to grant and/or limit authority to provide guidance to the vehicle. The authority tracker may store a state in a memory identifying an actor that currently has the authority. An actor requesting to have authority to provide guidance to the vehicle may transmit a control message to the authority tracker which may, in turn, authorize or deny the request based on a policy. The authority tracker may periodically, and/or in response to a request, broadcast a state message identifying the actor that currently has authority, as recorded in the memory.

The present disclosure discloses a cleaning method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a to-be-cleaned area; determining a cleaning section set based on the to-be-cleaned area, the cleaning section set including at least one cleaning section and a cleaning order position corresponding to each of the at least one cleaning section, and the cleaning order position of each of the at least one cleaning section being related to a cleaning path of each of the at least one cleaning section; and cleaning each of the at least one cleaning section in turn based on the cleaning order position corresponding to each of the at least one cleaning section.

A remote control device is a remote control device configured to control one or more mobile objects via a network, which includes a receiver configured to receive mobile object information including a first state quantity of a state quantity of the mobile object and surrounding information around the mobile object, a trajectory generation unit configured to generate a target trajectory of the mobile object on the basis of the surrounding information, a mobile object estimation unit configured to estimate transmission latency of the network, a gain setting unit configured to set a control gain on the basis of the transmission latency, a control amount calculation unit configured to calculate a control amount for causing the mobile object to follow the target trajectory on the basis of the mobile object information and the control gain, and a transmitter configured to transmit the control amount to the mobile object.

A method is provided for simplifying a takeover of control of a motor vehicle by a vehicle-external operator. In the method, images of the surroundings of the vehicle are captured from the vehicle and semantically segmented. Errors in a corresponding segmentation model are predicted on the basis of at least one such image each. If a corresponding error prediction triggering a request for the takeover of control is made, an image-based visualization is automatically generated in which exactly one region corresponding to the error prediction is visually highlighted. The request and the visualization are then sent to the vehicle-external operator.

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 information generation method is performed by an information generation device which generates information for a learning model that infers whether a mobile object is movable in a predetermined region. The information generation method includes: obtaining at least (i) first information and (ii) second information when the mobile object moves in a first region, the first information being obtained from a sensor provided in the mobile object, the second information relating to movement of the mobile object; inferring whether the mobile object is movable in the first region according to the second information; and generating fourth information for a learning model, the fourth information associating the first information, the second information, and third information with one another, the third information indicating an inference result which is obtained in the inferring.