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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185265 | Path planning device, path planning method, and computer program A path planning device includes: an initial position and posture path acquiring unit which acquires an initial position and posture path including a plurality of nodes connecting present position and posture of a control target to target position and posture and whi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170739 | Path generation algorithm for automated lane centering and lane changing control system A system for providing path generation for automated lane centering and/or lane changing purposes. The system includes a desired path generation processor that receives signals detecting the roadway on which the vehicle is traveling, a request for a lane change, veh... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160765 | Method and system for coordinated vehicle control with wireless communication A control system controls a pair of vehicles in coordination to traverse a respective pair of trajectories. The control system is configured to specify a plurality of successive waypoints, a safe stopping interval and an intermediate interval greater than the safe s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8131415 | Method and apparatus for automatic vehicle guidance using continuous 2-D poly-point path A method for using an arbitrary shape 2-D poly-point path for an automatic vehicle guidance comprising the steps of: (A) determining a set of 2-D reference points; (B) selecting a set of 2-D interpolating curves to fit the set of 2-D reference points, wherein each 2... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8090491 | Guidance, navigation, and control system for a vehicle A guidance, navigation, and control method and system for an underground mining vehicle wherein an operator directly or indirectly guides the vehicle along a route as vehicle-mounted sensors including odometric sensors and rangefinders log motion data to a file whic... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7957859 | Methods for cleaning lines on a game playing surface A method for clearing lines on a playing surface is provided. The method includes automatic direction of a cleaning device along the lines to clean the lines. The method also preferably includes calibrating the means of measuring the distances moved by the cleaning ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953526 | Robotic vehicle controller A control system is provided for automatically moving a machine along a desired path. The machine uses a “learn and follow” system in which the machine is first operated in a manual mode along a desired path. The control system learns the desired path and then o... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7912596 | Vehicle trajectory visualization system A vehicle trajectory visualization system capable of displaying real-time (or recorded) vehicle orientation, position, velocity, and waypoint data using a 3D rendering system. The aforementioned data is transmitted from the vehicle to a base station that processes a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899589 | Control information storage apparatus and program for same A navigation apparatus stores control information used for controlling a vehicle in a portion of a road between two intersections (i.e., an exit from an intersection) in a form that is associated with each of plural links in road data. For example, a stop line at an... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7840319 | Core area territory planning for optimizing driver familiarity and route flexibility Route planning methods for use by a package delivery service provider are disclosed that satisfy a stochastic daily demand while taking advantage of drivers' route familiarity over time. A model for estimating the value of driver familiarity is disclosed along with ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7788001 | Navigation system and method, and computer program product A navigation system (500) is provided with: a navigation apparatus (510); a server apparatus (520) and a route information transmittance apparatus (530), which are inter-communicable via a communication network (540). The route inf... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7769506 | Driver assistance system controller and driver assistance control method for vehicles There are provided a navigation apparatus, a forward recognition apparatus using a camera or the like, which can capture a situation around the vehicle and calculate a distance to a particular object and a relative velocity, and sensors mounted on the vehicle to acq... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761199 | Termination map for an aircraft A method of creating a termination map for an aircraft over an area of interest indicating the lowest allowable flight altitude to achieve a glide path of a vehicle to a termination point of the area of interest and a map of vectors of the area of interest indicatin... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756614 | Mobile device control system A system of mobile device control is provided, which includes moving a surrogate under wireless control, and autonomously moving the surrogate to regain wireless control when the wireless control is lost. ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756615 | Traffic management system for a passageway environment The present invention provides a system for coordinating multiple vehicles in a passageway environment (e.g., in underground mines). The system includes methods and apparatus for determining the global position and orientation of a vehicle in said passageway environ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7729821 | Method for mounting pattern in actual machine When dot-sequential data indicating a temporal variation in position, speed, or acceleration is stored in a memory in an automated guided vehicle as it is, the capacity of the memory is insufficient and thus needs to be increased. A pattern is mounted in a stacker c... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7665559 | Inputs for optimizing performance in hybrid vehicles A hybrid vehicle controller operates to use GPS navigation information to determine how much energy should be delivered from or sent to, the battery. The battery charge can be better managed by using knowledge of the future path of the vehicle. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7660651 | Core area territory planning for optimizing driver familiarity and route flexibility Route planning methods for use by a package delivery service provider are disclosed that satisfy a stochastic daily demand while taking advantage of drivers' route familiarity over time. A model for estimating the value of driver familiarity is disclosed along with ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7474945 | Route generating system for an autonomous mobile robot In a route generating system for an autonomous mobile robot, a plurality of nodes are designated within an area of movement of the robot and an edge is defined between a pair of nodes only if a distance from the one node to the other node is less than a threshold va... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7447573 | Driving control device for a vehicle A base station is installed in a driver's house or the like where the precise position has been measured beforehand, includes a GPS antenna, a GPS receiver, and a wireless communication device, and functions to transmit various data to a vehicle serving as a moving ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444206 | Robotic vacuum cleaner An autonomous robot, that is for example, suitable for operations such as vacuuming and surface cleaning includes a payload configured for vacuum cleaning, a drive system including a steering system, a navigation system, and a control system for integrating operatio... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444239 | Telematics terminal and method for transmitting route guidance information data fitted to a receiving terminal Disclosed are a telematics terminal and a method for transmitting route guidance information data fitted to a receiving terminal. The method includes the steps of initializing operational conditions of a mobile communication terminal by transmitting device informati... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437244 | Obstacle detection apparatus and a method therefor An obstacle detection apparatus includes an image input unit inputting a image sequence captured by an image sensor, a velocity detector deriving velocity vectors representing motions of a to-be-detected point and a to-be-compared point on each image of the image se... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437226 | Method of constructing artificial mark for autonomous driving, apparatus and method of determining position of intelligent system using artificial mark and intelligent system employing the same A method for constructing an artificial mark for autonomous driving of an intelligent system, an apparatus and method for determining the location of an intelligent system using the artificial mark, and an intelligent system employing the same. The apparatus and met... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430455 | Obstacle following sensor scheme for a mobile robot A robot obstacle detection system including a robot housing which navigates with respect to a surface and a sensor subsystem aimed at the surface for detecting the surface. The sensor subsystem includes an emitter which emits a signal having a field of emission and ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7421336 | Automobile navigation device with guidance A navigation device decreasing the frequency at which a user data stored in a data storage section, the navigation device includes a route receiving section for receiving route data, a data selecting section for selecting candidate location data indicating at least ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421341 | Method of collecting information for a geographic database for use with a navigation system A method for collecting geographic data for use with a navigation system is disclosed. A route between a first location and a second location is identified. Data providing directions for traveling from said first location to said second location is collected. The da... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421339 | Apparatus and method for controlling traffic information display in navigation system A navigation system displays different colors on sections of a travel route according to traffic density. A method for controlling a traffic information display in the navigation system includes the steps of: if a traveling route is received from a user of a moving ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415331 | System for controlling unmanned vehicles A system ensures safety and security of teams of collaborative autonomous unmanned vehicles in executing a mission plan. The system includes a plurality of components, a first device, a second device, and a third device. The plurality of components perform situation... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401013 | Method to optimize test data A method for optimizing data gathering, is provided wherein the method comprising the steps of designing a first system test comprising two or more maneuvers, compiling a one or more data variable for each of the two or more maneuvers from the first system test, poo... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389156 | Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386364 | Operation control device for leg-type mobile robot and operation control method, and robot device A legged mobile robot gives up a normal walking motion and starts a tumbling motion when an excessively high external force or external moment is applied thereto and a behavior plan of a foot part thereof is disabled. At this time, the variation amount ΔS/Δt of th... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383107 | Computer-controlled power wheelchair navigation system A wheelchair navigation system for a motorized wheelchair includes dual cameras, proximity sensors, microphones, and rotation sensors for the wheels. Small markers are placed on the walls of a location or room. The navigation system uses the proximity sensors, rotat... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373218 | Image distribution system An information distribution system capable of presenting an image photographed by a moving body, such as a robot or vehicle, selected by a user. The information distribution system includes moving bodies, local managers, and a global manager. When a user requests a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363126 | Core area territory planning for optimizing driver familiarity and route flexibility Route planning methods for use by a package delivery service provider are disclosed that satisfy a stochastic daily demand while taking advantage of drivers' route familiarity over time. A model for estimating the value of driver familiarity is disclosed along with ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362439 | Method of detecting the condition of a turf grass A method of detecting the condition of a turf grass is described. According to one aspect of the invention, the method comprises steps of attaching an active sensor to a mower; traversing a section of turf grass; and processing the output of the sensor. A device for... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353084 | Generator controller A generator controller, in its various embodiments, displays genset fault messages, a genset elapsed time hour meter, service countdown reminder, monitors battery voltage changes over multiple periods of time to establish and display the “battery level,” uses th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349800 | Adaptable navigation system The invention is a new and useful improvement to navigation system software that, when combined with conventional navigation system hardware, provides an operator with a means for modifying a course generated by a navigation system, and for saving the modified cours... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343230 | Method of operating an automated land maintenance vehicle A method of operating an automated land maintenance vehicle over a work area includes (a) determining a work regime by dividing the work area into regions; selecting at least one instruction for the vehicle to follow with respect to each region; providing data relat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337046 | Automotive control apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for controlling an automotive vehicle are disclosed, in which a control amount for securing safety of the vehicle and the control amount for achieving a state intended for by the driver of the vehicle are switched in such a manner as to red... | 02/26/2008 |
