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WO/2012/014134
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a self-propelled robot device, such as a robot device for mowing grass, and a control system that carries out the aforementioned method. According to the invention, the self- prop...  
WO/2012/012819
A three dimensional scanning beam system (100) and method (500) enable economical and efficient three dimensional scans of an environment. The system (100) includes a ranging apparatus (105), and a reactive linkage mechanism (110) having...  
WO/2012/010839
A laser system comprises a housing and a laser. The laser can be positioned in the housing such that its laser beam is transmitted at an angle and its path forms a cone as the housing rotates. The laser device may also contain two or mor...  
WO/2012/011895
A system and method for validating data stored in one or more vehicle electronic units includes confirming that a data validation package is present in a first electronic control unit on-board the vehicle, comparing data in the validatio...  
WO/2012/008702
Disclosed are a robot cleaner and a method for controlling the same. The robot cleaner is capable of recognizing a position thereof by extracting one or more feature points having 2D coordinates information with respect to each of a plur...  
WO/2012/008005
Provided is an inverted pendulum type moving body capable of easily moving to a target position by avoiding obstacles even if a space for changing directions cannot be obtained, by utilizing the merits of the pendulum type moving body ha...  
WO/2012/008516
Disclosed is a drive system for an unmanned vehicle and method of drive control for the purpose of rendering unnecessary the left-right determination and an operation by a left-right instruction button when presenting drive commands to a...  
WO/2012/008703
Disclosed are a robot cleaner and a method for controlling the same. A plurality of images are detected through an image detecting unit such as an upper camera, and two or more feature points are extracted from the plurality of images. T...  
WO/2012/008085
Provided is an autonomous mobile body capable of moving in an autonomously set waiting-position direction without presetting a stop zone so that a movable obstacle can safely pass through. The autonomous mobile body (1) comprises: a stor...  
WO/2012/009198
Various embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for assessing the performance of an actuator of a attitude control system (ACS), such as a control moment gyroscope (CMG). In one embodiment, a system includes a su...  
WO/2012/008084
Disclosed is an autonomous locomotion body capable of appropriately performing a stop action or an evacuation action in accordance with the conditions when an obstacle which may interfere with the locomotion body is present. An autonomou...  
WO/2012/005642
The present invention relates to a method 400 and a system 100 for controlling a robotic garden tool 202 around a working area 204 in a boundary wire aided system. The system includes the robotic garden tool 202 to perform an operation w...  
WO/2012/006606
An automated guided vehicle (12) is equipped with a stabilization system (16) for precisely locating, leveling, or otherwise positioning the AGV (12) and its payload (14) with respect to a work piece (15). The stabilization system (16) i...  
WO/2012/001203
The system comprises a sensor/slide element, the measured signal from which at the same time contains information relating to the surface speed and the variability thereof in a vessel; and signal processing sub-circuits and means for tha...  
WO/2012/002431
Reliable data transmission is secured without inviting large design changes by means of configuring the disclosed optical data transmission device (100) in a manner so as to be provided with: data conversion units (210, 310) and optical ...  
WO/2011/161211
An apparatus and a method for controlling energy consumption in a marine vessel having a plurality of energy consuming users and fuel consuming engines are disclosed. According to the invention the apparatus comprises a voyage management...  
WO/2011/160006
A method and apparatus for managing manned and automated utility vehicles, and for picking up and delivering objects by automated vehicles. A machine vision image acquisition apparatus determines the position and the rotational orientati...  
WO/2011/158347
Provided is a driving assistance device which is easy to sensuously operate without giving an uncomfortable feeling to a driver. In said driving assistance device, when an instruction to execute automatic driving is given by an automatic...  
WO/2011/158426
Disclosed is a travelling vehicle system having a plurality of travelling vehicles (110) which reciprocally move along a linear travelling path, the system being provided with: a reflection member (120) which is arranged at one end of th...  
WO/2011/154249
The invention relates to a method and device for protecting an aircraft during the flight phase, the aircraft having a plurality of slat and flap configurations. The method comprises the following steps: determining (201), for at least o...  
WO/2011/154680
An autonomous vehicle (4) comprising drive means, and control means for optimising the operation of the vehicle, the control means comprising: (i) first means for determining energy stored and remaining range of the autonomous vehicle (4...  
WO/2011/154679
A cellular route system (2, 4, 6) for autonomous vehicles, which cellular route system (2, 4, 6) comprises: (i) routes (8, 10, 12) for the autonomous vehicles; (ii) node stops (14) at which passengers can leave the autonomous vehicles an...  
WO/2011/151274
The present invention relates to a control system for travel in a platoon (1), the platoon comprising a lead vehicle (L) and one or more following vehicles (F1, F2,..., Fi-1, Fi,..., Fn) automatically following the lead vehicle, the lead...  
WO/2011/148729
A plurality of movement machines (1A, 1B) are used, and with respect all of the movement machines (1A, 1B), an arbitrary movement machine (1B (1A)) acquires space information including another movement machine (1A (1B)), and said another...  
WO/2011/144710
The invention relates to a method for treating a floor area by means of a floor-treating device having a floor-treating unit and at least one detection unit, wherein the floor-treating device is moved over the floor area, the at least on...  
WO/2011/143877
An intelligent robot mower of parallel motion type and a method for controlling the parallel motion thereof are provided. The intelligent robot mower includes a main control module (1), a mowing mechanism (4) and a traveling mechanism (3...  
WO/2011/144929
A method and apparatus for evaluating capabilities of a system (e.g. an autonomous vehicle) with respect to the performance of a task, the method comprising: providing a first model (8) corresponding to the task; providing a further mode...  
WO/2011/146349
An unmanned air module includes one or more rotors, engines, a transmission and avionics. Any of several different ground modules may be attached to the air module. The air module may fly with and without the ground module attached. The ...  
WO/2011/140606
A remote control assembly for use with a model vehicle is disclosed. The remote control assembly includes a rotatable station for supporting a user operating a remote control unit; a drive unit operably connected to the station; and a mo...  
WO/2011/141629
The present invention relates to a method for a safety system of a mining vehicle. The method comprises scanning the surroundings of the mining vehicle while the mining vehicle is driven and giving a collision warning if an obstacle is d...  
WO/2011/141619
The present invention relates to a method for positioning a mobile mining vehicle, which method determines scanning data by scanning the environment of the mining vehicle while being driven. Location information is determined for the min...  
WO/2011/141096
In order to park a vehicle (10) using a parking assistance system (20), a target position of the vehicle within a parking space is automatically determined. A parking process of the parking assistance system (20) is considered successful...  
WO/2011/134696
The invention relates to a method for detecting a position with respect to a defined area (4), in particular in a mobile working machine, comprising the following steps: providing (S1) a current signal in a boundary conductor (3), which ...  
WO/2011/131165
The invention relates to a method for determining the course of the road for a moving motor vehicle with at least one surroundings sensor system, wherein the sensor data generated by the surroundings sensor system which is aimed at the r...  
WO/2011/131884
The invention relates to a method for controlling an electric motor (14) driving a rotating stopper (13) of an exhaust-gas recycling valve (10) of an internal combustion engine, which includes the steps of: determining the angular positi...  
WO/2011/129728
The present invention relates to a method (300)and a system (100) for guiding a robotic garden tool to a predetermined position. The robotic garden tool includes a control unit (104) and a sensor unit (102) to detect signals. The sensor ...  
WO/2011/123324
A system for providing perceived first order control of an unmanned vehicle contains a memory and a processor configured by the memory to perform the steps of: receiving instructions for updating x-axis location, y-axis location, z-axis ...  
WO/2011/123182
According to one embodiment, a control station having a station processing system, a control system, a data link computing unit, a second data link and a back-up VSM (a second vehicle computing unit) is operable to communicate via an RF ...  
WO/2011/123758
A method for providing vision based hover in place to an air vehicle is disclosed. Visual information is received using one or more image sensors on the air vehicle and based on the position of the air vehicle. A number of visual displac...  
WO/2011/119358
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving an entry for a destination, a sub-destination, or a combination thereof with the sub-destination located within the destination; receiving a road obstacle image while trave...  
WO/2011/119358
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving an entry for a destination, a sub-destination, or a combination thereof with the sub-destination located within the destination; receiving a road obstacle image while trave...  
WO/2011/115534
The present invention relates to a method (300) and a system (100) for navigating a robotic garden tool (202) based on one or more operating parameters for subareas (210- 218) within the working area (204) and a current location of the r...  
WO/2011/115535
The present invention relates to a method (400) and a system (100) for guiding a robotic garden tool to a predetermined position. The robotic garden tool includes a control unit (104) and a sensor unit (102) to detect guiding signals. Th...  
WO/2011/114059
The invention relates to the field of systems and methods intended for capturing a visual or audiovisual sequence relating to a target subject in motion, on the basis of an autonomous or semi-autonomous aircraft. More particularly, the i...  
WO/2011/115563
The present invention relates to a method (300) and a system (100) for navigating a robotic garden tool (202) based on one or more operating parameters for subareas (210-218) within the working area (204) and a current location of the ro...  
WO/2011/113535
The invention relates to a system, to a method for determining the position of a vehicle within a system and to a method for creating an improved target path for a vehicle within a system, comprising at least one vehicle which has at lea...  
WO/2011/110924
A vehicle parking assist system includes: a camera (120); a first vehicle guiding section that recognizes the position of a power transmitter (220) external to a vehicle based on the image obtained via the camera (120) to guide the vehic...  
WO/2011/110156
The invention relates to a lane keeping system for a motor vehicle, comprising: a lane detection system for detecting and determining the lane in front of the vehicle, a vehicle position determination system for determining the vehicle t...  
WO/2011/110156
The invention relates to a lane keeping system for a motor vehicle (5), comprising: a lane detection system (6) for detecting and determining the lane (1, 1a) in front of the vehicle (5), a vehicle position determination system (7) for d...  
WO/2011/106772
Method for controlling a vehicle that includes a support, at least one wheel, a platform coupled to the at least one wheel, a coupling structure having a support portion coupled to the support and a platform portion coupled to the platfo...  

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