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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2015
Crown Equipment Limited, East Tamaki, Auckland, NZ;
Kashyap Chandrasekar, Auckland, NZ;
Ryan Estep, Christchurch, NZ;
Jacob Thomson, Auckland, NZ;
Lucas Waltz, Auckland, NZ;
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Abstract
According to the embodiments described herein, a method for vehicle positioning or navigation utilizing associated feature pairs may include creating a plurality of associated feature pairs by retrieving an initial set of camera data from the camera comprising two-dimensional UV space information, forming pairs from the UV space information, and associating each pair from the UV space information with pairs from each of the plurality of three-dimensional global feature points of the industrial facility map, calculating a best estimate poses from calculated vehicle poses of the associated feature pairs, using an accumulated odometry to update the best estimate pose to a current localized position and setting a seed position as the current localized position. The navigation of the materials handling vehicle is tracked and/or navigated along the inventory transit surface navigate in at least a partially automated manner utilizing the current localized position.