摘要:
The invention relates to a robotic mower, a system and a method for navigation a robotic mower wherein a two-dimensional working path is calculated for the robotic mower. According to the invention positioning errors caused by an inclination of the robotic mower due to slopes in the work area are compensated to maintain a high-accuracy of the positioning.
摘要:
A livestock management system for the autonomous performance of an animal-related action comprises an autonomously movable vehicle for performing the animal-related action in a livestock-related space, said system being equipped with an on-board navigation system having a sensor for vehicle movement information and a memory for navigation information, an external vehicle localisation device for repeatedly determining the external position of the vehicle in the livestock-related space, and a communication device for transferring the external position to the memory. The navigation information comprises at least one previous on-board position and a route to be travelled. The vehicle determines an instantaneous on-board position on the basis of the navigation information and the collected vehicle movement information. The on-board navigation system is configured to repeatedly receive the determined external position, and to calibrate the sensor on the basis of the received external positions and/or to update said navigation information in the memory. A livestock building having such a system is similarly provided.
摘要:
An autonomous lawn mower comprising a mower body having at least one motor arranged to drive a cutting blade and to propel the mower body on an operating surface via a wheel arrangement. The mower body includes a navigation system arranged to assist a controller to control the operation of the mower body within a predefined operating area. The mower body further includes a height adjustment system arranged to assist the controller to restrict the operation of the cutting blade within a predefined operating height.
摘要:
A solution for estimating the pose of a platform, such as a vehicle, is provided. Data from a plurality of types of sensing devices located on the platform can be used to independently calculate a plurality of preliminary estimates corresponding to the pose. A plurality of estimates corresponding to the pose can be generated using the preliminary estimates and at least one covariance matrix. One or more entries in the covariance matrix are adjusted based on an uncertainty for the corresponding preliminary estimate. The uncertainty can vary based on time, distance, and/or velocity of the platform.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for establishing a route for an autonomous vehicle, the method including: determining localization information for the vehicle with respect to a first frame of reference that is fixed with respect to a current state of the vehicle; determining localization information for the vehicle with respect to a second frame of reference that is fixed with respect to an entity (e.g. Earth), the vehicle being moveable with respect to the entity; establishing a route for the vehicle with respect to the second frame using the localization information for the vehicle with respect to the second frame; transforming the route from the second frame to the first frame; and determining a route for the vehicle with respect to the first frame using the localization information for the vehicle with respect to the first frame and the transformed route.
摘要:
The position and/or pose of a vehicle is determined in real time. An observed position and an observed pose of a vehicle are determined. A reference image is generated based on the observed position and the observed pose. The reference image comprises one or more reference static features. A captured image and the reference image are implicitly compared. Based on a result of the comparison, a correction to the observed position, the observed pose, or both is determined.
摘要:
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for updating a map of a mobile robot. An apparatus for updating a map of a mobile robot includes a key frame initializing unit which initializes seeds which constitute a key frame at a start position of the mobile robot and a key frame updating unit which when a current position is determined using a given key frame in accordance with movement of a mobile robot, projects seeds of the key frame to update the key frame for the current position using a disparity of the projected seeds.
摘要:
The method for localisation and mapping of pedestrians or robots using Wireless Access Points comprises the following steps: - Wireless Signal Strength and/or time delay measurements from wireless access points (e.g. Wireless Local Area Network access points (WLAN, Wifi, WIMAX), or mobile radio base stations (e.g. GSM, UMTS, LTE, 4G, IS95 or RFID tags or transmitters) are taken at regular or irregular time instances by a device carried by the pedestrian or robot in addition to odometry measurements (e.g. human step measurements, human pedestrian dead-reckoning, robot or wheelchair wheel counter measurements, robot motor or wheelchair motor control inputs), and - providing a particle filter which has a state model that comprises the pedestrian or robot location history for each particle, and also the location probability distribution of one or more wireless access points, - wherein at each time-step of the particle filter each particle of the particle filter is weighted and/or propagated according to the odometry measurements and weighted and/or propagated according to the wireless measurement, - wherein at each time-step of the particle filter the location probability distribution of the wireless access points for each particle is updated according to the measurement and the previous location probability distribution of that particle, and - wherein the location of the pedestrian or robot and/or the map of the wireless access point(s) is extracted from the particle population (e.g. from the state of the particle with greatest weight, from the weighted state across all particles, from the state of a randomly chosen particle, from the state of the maximum likelihood particle).
摘要:
A robotic vehicle may include one or more functional components configured to execute a lawn care function, a sensor network comprising one or more sensors configured to detect conditions proximate to the robotic vehicle, an object detection module configured to 5 detect objects proximate to the robotic vehicle using contact-less detection, a positioning module configured to determine robotic vehicle position, and a mapping module configured to generate map data regarding a parcel on which the robotic vehicle operates.