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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

May. 20, 2019
Applicant:

Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd, Shenzhen, CN;

Inventors:

Chenchen Jiang, Shenzhen, CN;

Youjun Xiong, Shenzhen, CN;

Zhichao Liu, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:

UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD, Shenzhen, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30244 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a positioning method and a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining, through the visual sensor, a current frame image; obtaining, through the ultra-wideband tag, distance of a robot from an ultra-wideband anchor; performing a feature matching on the current frame image and an adjacent frame image to generate partial map point(s); determining whether the current frame image is a key frame image; and optimizing a pose of the visual sensor corresponding to the key frame image through a joint objective function in response to the current frame image being the key frame image, where the joint objective function at least comprises a distance cost function of the ultra-wideband anchor and a visual residual cost function. Through the above-mentioned method, the accuracy of the positioning of the robot can be improved.


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