44 results about "Autonomous behavior" patented technology

A system for controlling more than one remote vehicle. The system comprises an operator control unit allowing an operator to receive information from the remote vehicles and send commands to the remote vehicles via a touch-screen interface, the remote vehicles being capable of performing autonomous behaviors using information received from at least one sensor on each remote vehicle. The operator control unit sends commands to the remote vehicles to perform autonomous behaviors in a cooperative effort, such that high-level mission commands entered by the operator cause the remote vehicles to perform more than one autonomous behavior sequentially or concurrently. The system may perform a method for generating obstacle detection information from image data received from one of a time-of-flight sensor and a stereo vision camera sensor.

A method for enhancing operational efficiency of a remote vehicle using a diagnostic behavior. The method comprises inputting and analyzing data received from a plurality of sensors to determine the existence of deviations from normal operation of the remote vehicle, updating parameters in a reference mobility model based on deviations from normal operation, and revising strategies to achieve an operational goal of the remote vehicle to accommodate deviations from normal operation. An embedded simulation and training system for a remote vehicle. The system comprises a software architecture installed on the operator control unit and including software routines and drivers capable of carrying out mission simulations and training.

A behavior controlling apparatus by which the mobility area of a robot apparatus may be controlled in a simplified manner using plural landmarks. A landmark recognition unit 410 uniquely recognizes the landmarks to acquire the landmark position information rPo(x,y,z). A landmark map building unit 420 integrates the totality of the landmark position information rPo(x,y,z) sent by the landmark recognition unit 410 to build a landmark map which has integrated the geometric topology of the landmarks. Using the landmark map information rPoxN, a mobility area recognition unit 430 builds a mobility area map representing a mobility area for the robot. Using the mobility area map, sent from the mobility area recognition unit 430, a behavior controller 440 controls the autonomous behavior of the robot apparatus 1 so that the robot apparatus 1 will not come out of or into the mobility area.

A method for enhancing operational efficiency of a remote vehicle using a diagnostic behavior. The method comprises inputting and analyzing data received from a plurality of sensors to determine the existence of deviations from normal operation of the remote vehicle, updating parameters in a reference mobility model based on deviations from normal operation, and revising strategies to achieve an operational goal of the remote vehicle to accommodate deviations from normal operation. An embedded simulation and training system for a remote vehicle. The system comprises a software architecture installed on the operator control unit and including software routines and drivers capable of carrying out mission simulations and training.

A system for controlling more than one remote vehicle. The system comprises an operator control unit allowing an operator to receive information from the remote vehicles and send commands to the remote vehicles via a touch-screen interface, the remote vehicles being capable of performing autonomous behaviors using information received from at least one sensor on each remote vehicle. The operator control unit sends commands to the remote vehicles to perform autonomous behaviors in a cooperative effort, such that high-level mission commands entered by the operator cause the remote vehicles to perform more than one autonomous behavior sequentially or concurrently. The system may perform a method for generating obstacle detection information from image data received from one of a time-of-flight sensor and a stereo vision camera sensor.

A system and method for allowing an operator to switch between remote vehicle tele-operation and one or more remote vehicle autonomous behaviors, or for implementing remote vehicle autonomous behaviors. The system comprises an operator control system receiving input from the operator including instructions for the remote vehicle to execute an autonomous behavior, and a control system on the remote vehicle for receiving the instruction to execute an autonomous behavior from the operator control system. Upon receiving the instruction to execute an autonomous behavior, the remote vehicle executes that autonomous behavior.

A system increases an operator's situational awareness while the operator controls a remote vehicle. The system comprises an operator control unit having a point-and-click interface configured to allow the operator to view an environment surrounding the remote vehicle and control the remote vehicle, and a payload attached to the remote vehicle and in communication with at least one of the remote vehicle and the operator control unit. The payload comprises an integrated sensor suite including GPS, an inertial measurement unit, a stereo vision camera, and a range sensor, and a computational module receiving data from the GPS, the inertial measurement unit, the stereo vision camera, and the range sensor and providing data to a CPU including at least one of an autonomous behavior and a semi-autonomous behavior that utilize data from the integrated sensor suite.

A method comprising running a persistent self-righting behavior comprising sensing an orientation of the remote vehicle and performing a progression of flipper movements until the remote vehicle is righted, and performing a retrotraverse behavior comprising: generating a list of time stamped waypoints separated by at least a minimum difference in time and distance; storing the list of time stamped waypoints in the memory; and generating, using a control system, a current return path interconnecting previously-traversed waypoints in reverse order of timestamps upon losing communication with the operator control unit or upon receiving a command from the operator control unit.

A system for providing enhanced operator control of a remote vehicle driving at increased speeds comprises: a head-mounted display configured to be worn by the operator and track a position of the operator's head; a head-aimed camera mounted to the remote vehicle via a pan / tilt mechanism and configured to pan and tilt in accordance with the position of the operator's head, the head-aimed camera transmitting video to be displayed to the operator via the head-mounted display; and a computer running a behavior engine, the computer receiving input from the operator and one or more sensors, and being configured to utilize the behavior engine, operator input, sensor input, and one or more autonomous and / or semi-autonomous behaviors to assist the operator in driving the remote vehicle. The remote vehicle includes releasably mounted wheels and high-friction tracks.

An autonomous device behaving adaptively to a user includes a sensing unit; a recognition unit for recognizing user's command, a current user-related status, and a current user-unrelated status based on the sensed signals; a pseudo-personality-forming unit for establishing a pseudo-personality based on the result of the preceding recognition; a pseudo-emotion-forming unit for establishing pseudo-emotions based on the result of the preceding recognition and the pseudo-personality; an autonomous behavior-establishing unit for selecting autonomous behavior based on the result of the preceding recognition, the pseudo-personality, and the pseudo-emotions; a new behavior pattern generation unit for generating new patterns of autonomous behavior, linked to the autonomous behavior-establishing unit; a commanded behavior-establishing unit for constituting commanded behavior in accordance with the user's command; a behavior control unit for controlling behavior by combining the autonomous behavior and the commanded behavior; and an output device outputting the controlled behavior. The device comes to be viewed as a “pet” or a “friend” in a relatively short time.

A method for enhancing operational efficiency of a remote vehicle using a diagnostic behavior. The method comprises inputting and analyzing data received from a plurality of sensors to determine the existence of deviations from normal operation of the remote vehicle, updating parameters in a reference mobility model based on deviations from normal operation, and revising strategies to achieve an operational goal of the remote vehicle to accommodate deviations from normal operation. An embedded simulation and training system for a remote vehicle. The system comprises a software architecture installed on the operator control unit and including software routines and drivers capable of carrying out mission simulations and training.

A hierarchical behavioral framework is used to generate and control autonomous and semi-autonomous behavior in an articulate object. A behavioral controller is arranged to receive input associated with a behavioral action, to infer a plurality of behavioral parameter values using the framework, and to generate equivalent behavior in the articulate object using the parameter values when loaded in the behavioral controller to generate output corresponding to the equivalent behavior. The equivalent behavior may reproduce the inputted behavioral action, and / or include one or more other behavioral actions, which may be performed simultaneously or as part of a sequence of actions.

The invention provides a robot apparatus not requiring any incidental equipment in a building since an autonomous behavior is enabled, and capable of coping with abnormal phenomena. The robot apparatus includes means (112) for judging an autonomous mode or an autonomous / remote collaboration mode, means (113) for executing an autonomous motion when the mode judging means judges that the mode is an autonomous mode, means (117) for judging the collaboration ratio when the mode judging means judges that the mode is an autonomous / remote collaboration mode, means (118) for executing a complete remote motion when the judged collaboration ratio is 100% remote, and means (119) for executing an autonomous / remote collaboration motion when the judged collaboration ratio is not 100% remote.

The invention provides a robot apparatus not requiring any incidental equipment in a building since an autonomous behavior is enabled, and capable of coping with abnormal phenomena. The robot apparatus includes means (112) for judging an autonomous mode or an autonomous / remote collaboration mode, means (113) for executing an autonomous motion when the mode judging means judges that the mode is an autonomous mode, means (117) for judging the collaboration ratio when the mode judging means judges that the mode is an autonomous / remote collaboration mode, means (118) for executing a complete remote motion when the judged collaboration ratio is 100% remote, and means (119) for executing an autonomous / remote collaboration motion when the judged collaboration ratio is not 100% remote.

The present invention relates to the core controller of an intelligent autonomous robot, which includes a central control module, a sensor module, a CAN bus transmission module and a movement control module. The central control module, which comprises a core controller connected with a storage device and an interface connected with an external side, is provided with a trimmed embedded RT-Linux operating system, a plurality of hardware driving programs and an application program which facilitates a secondary development. The sensor module comprising a pressure sensor and an electronic compass is connected with the central control module by the interface. The CAN bus transmission module is connected with the central control module. The movement control module which is connected with the CAN bus transmission module exchanges information with the core controller through the CAN bus. The present invention well controls the autonomous movement, environment sensing and the man-machine interaction and provides software and hardware supports for the realization of correct autonomous behaviors of the intelligent robot.

A robot may be made to operate in response to changes in an environment by determining a currently dominant drive state for the robot from a plurality of competing drive states, sensing a change the environment, selecting an appropriate behavior strategy in accordance with the currently dominant drive state from a database of behavior strategies for response by the robot to the sensed changed, selecting one or more robotic motions to be performed by the robot from a database of robotic motions in accordance with the selected strategy and causing the robot to perform the selected robotic motions.

The invention discloses a network node and a method for realizing autonomous routing control by sensing network context information. The network node comprises a routing execution unit and an autonomous management unit; the routing execution unit comprises a positioning and addressing module, a neighbor discovery module, a link selection module, a routing information distribution module and a routing calculation module; and the autonomous management unit comprises a context information sensing module, a context information transmission module, an information storage module and an autonomous decision-making module. The network node controls the operations of the link selection module and the routing calculation module in the routing execution unit according to autonomous behaviors AB generated by the autonomous management unit; therefore, in the operating process, the network node is self-adaptively regulated according to the present conditions of the network, generates a routing transfer table satisfying the present network condition, realizes the autonomous routing control, and optimizes the integrated performance of the network. Only one or a plurality of the network nodes of the invention are added to the traditional network, so that the network node can sense the context information, combine the autonomous policy, self-adaptively regulate the routing policy and select a better path to transfer a data packet to realize the purpose of the invention.

The invention relates to an autonomous behavior-based product marketing support system and method, is a support system which can provide marketing management for a plurality of products at the same time and initiatively provides a novel product marketing mode which is suitable for ordinary users to participate extensively and has great influence. Except for relevant network elements and various product marketing platforms of an original telephone switching network, the product marketing support system is also provided with the autonomous behavior-based product marketing support platform. The system has the following main functions: mainly adopting user autonomous promotion in a short message or network mode to provide parallel support for multi-product and multi-region marketing; and meanwhile, ensuring that transmission or marketing tasks of each product or service are independent to realize noninterference among promotion and transmission tasks. Moreover, the marketing support system and method can strictly limit participating populations and regions and provide real-time marketing awards for participating users. Meanwhile, marketing personnel can learn personal marketing performance in real time, thereby furthest arousing the working enthusiasm of marketing personnel.

The invention relates to model the software development based on agent. Wherein, it uses agent for the entity with determined source and capacity to implement autonomous behavior; all agents are arranged in system work area to model software development according to project constraints and self source and knowledge as well as special object and environment independently, while user just needs to input object into system.

The robot uses a microphone array to detect a sound and identify the direction of a sound source. The robot faces a head portion in the direction of the sound source. If an object having a characteristic of an uttering body is detected in an image capturing region (420) in the direction of the sound source identified by the microphone array, the uttering body is identified as an utterance source.Upon identifying the uttering body as the utterance source, the robot faces a body thereof toward the sound source (utterance source). The robot executes a predetermined motion if a particular environmental sound is detected.

A hierarchical behavior framework is used to generate and control autonomous and semi-autonomous behavior of articulated objects. The behavior controller is used to receive the behavior associated with the behavior action, use the framework to infer a plurality of behavior parameter values, and use these parameter values ​​to generate the joint object when loading these parameter values ​​into the behavior controller Equivalent behavior to produce output corresponding to that equivalent behavior. The equivalent behavior may reproduce the input behavioral action and / or include one or more other behavioral actions that may be performed concurrently or as part of a sequence of actions.

A system increases an operator's situational awareness while the operator controls a remote vehicle. The system comprises an operator control unit having a point-and-click interface configured to allow the operator to view an environment surrounding the remote vehicle and control the remote vehicle, and a payload attached to the remote vehicle and in communication with at least one of the remote vehicle and the operator control unit. The payload comprises an integrated sensor suite including GPS, an inertial measurement unit, a stereo vision camera, and a range sensor, and a computational module receiving data from the GPS, the inertial measurement unit, the stereo vision camera, and the range sensor and providing data to a CPU including at least one of an autonomous behavior and a semi-autonomous behavior that utilize data from the integrated sensor suite.

The present invention evokes rapport with a robot by emulation of human-like / animal-like behavior. A robot (100) is provided with a movement-assessing unit for determining movement direction, a behavior-assessing unit for selecting an action from multiple kinds of actions, and a drive mechanism for executing a designated movement and action. When a user enters an entryway, a previously set external sensor detects the homecoming and notifies the robot (100) of the user's homecoming via a server. The robot (100) goes to the entryway and welcomes the user home by performing an action that shows good will such as sitting down and raising a hand.

A robot apparatus causes the emotion in a feeling part (130) to be changed based on the information acquired by a perception part (120) to manifest the behavior of information acquisition as autonomous behavior. The robot apparatus includes a behavior control part for causing the robot apparatus to manifest a language acquisition behavior and a meaning acquisition part. The robot apparatus also includes a control part for performing the behavior control of pointing its object of learning. The robot apparatus causes changes in internal states, which are ascribable to the object, to be stored in a memory part in association with the object.

The invention provides a scene understanding method oriented to autonomous behavior of intelligent devices, which relates to the technical field of autonomous behavior of intelligent devices. To solvethe technical problems that the existing methods can not meet the requirements of intelligent device autonomous behavior implementation, the method includes such steps as sensing environment by sensor device and acquiring environment information in real time; real-time monitoring the status of individual objects in the scene, using domain knowledge and event discovery technology to discover events from the real-time environmental information; according to the domain knowledge, the situational factors affecting scene understanding being determined, and the situational information being extracted from the perceived environmental information and self-state information according to the time consistency. Event processing knowledge is used to judge the decision-making significance of the eventin the scene and determine the autonomous behavior that should be taken in the current scene. The invention realizes higher-level event semantic understanding of the scene, supports the realization ofautonomous behavior of the intelligent device, and thus improves the autonomy and intelligence of the behavior of the intelligent device.

The invention relates to a Windows window application behavior simulation robot and a working method thereof. The Windows window application behavior simulation robot comprises a simulation task issuing module, a task configuration file library, a simulation task analysis module, an autonomous simulation module, a behavior library construction module and a behavior database. The simulation task issuing module stores issued task configuration files in a task configuration file library; the simulation task analysis module acquires a task configuration file from the task configuration file library, performs analysis operation on the task configuration file and transmits simulation parameters obtained through analysis to the autonomous simulation module; after the autonomous simulation modulereceives the simulation parameters, the simulation parameters of the autonomous simulation module are set, and a simulation method is selected to perform autonomous behavior simulation; and the behavior library construction module stores the simulation operation behaviors into the behavior database. According to the invention, autonomous behavior simulation can be carried out on all Windows windowapplications, and a behavior library is constructed autonomously.

The invention discloses a decision and control method for autonomous rendezvous and docking of a spacecraft in a translation approaching stage, and belongs to the field of rendezvous and docking. Themethod comprises the following steps that a scene classification matrix for priority attention dimension decision is established, and a man-machine-environment coupling interaction quantification model for manual control rendezvous and docking of the translation approaching stage is researched; the relationship among an astronaut, a spacecraft, the environment and dynamic joint disturbance are analyzed, and a behavior decision instruction rule set in different rendezvous and docking scenes is established; an autonomous tracking spacecraft driver prior model is established based on a deep neural network and a semi-physical simulation experiment; a tracking spacecraft autonomous behavior decision model is established based on deep reinforcement learning and an all-physical simulation experiment; and a bionic hierarchical control architecture comprising top-layer decision and bottom-layer control is researched, and autonomous behavior decision and control of the spacecraft are tracked. According to the decision and control method, by introducing the brain-like thinking thought, the problem that the autonomous rendezvous and docking mode of a spacecraft in a translation approaching stage lacks the flexibility and intelligence of manual control is solved.

The invention discloses a remote intelligent monitoring device and principle for children lacking of the independent behavior ability, and relates to a positioning and tracing system. The remote intelligent monitoring device and principle for children lacking of the independent behavior ability comprises an outer shell (1), a wristlet (2), a state indicator lamp (3), a charging interface (4), an SOS key (5) and a power switch key (6), wherein the wristlet (2) is arranged at the rear portion of the outer shell (1), the state indicator lamp (3) is arranged at the left side of the outer shell (1), the charging interface (4) is formed in the lower side of the front portion of the outer shell (1), the SOS key (5) is arranged at the lower portion of the right side of the outer shell (1), and the power switch key (6) is arranged below the SOS key (5). The remote intelligent monitoring device and principle for children lacking of the independent behavior ability combine the GPS technology and the GPRS technology, can accurately position and actively searching for the children, is not limited by time and space and is high in practicability.

An earth moving vehicle (EMV) autonomously performs an earth moving operation within a dig site. If the EMV determines that a state of the EMV or the dig site triggers a triggering condition associated with a pause in the autonomous behavior of the EMV, the EMV determines a risk associated with the state or triggering condition. If the risk is greater than a first threshold, the EMV continues the autonomous performance and notifies a remote operator that the triggering condition was triggered. If the risk is greater than the first threshold risk but less than a second threshold risk, the EMV is configured to operate in a default state before continuing and notifying the remote operator. If the risk is greater than the second threshold risk, the EMV notifies the remote operator of the state pauses the performance until feedback is received from the remote operator.