Lost vehicle recovery utilizing associated feature pairs

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PATENT NO 9349181
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14751383

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According to the embodiments described herein, a method for lost vehicle recovery utilizing associated feature pairs may include, for a materials handling vehicle determined to be lost, creating a plurality of associated feature pairs by retrieving a subsequent set of camera data from a camera comprising two-dimensional UV space information, forming pairs from the UV space information, and associating each formed pair with pairs from each of a plurality of three-dimensional global feature points of an industrial facility map. The method may further include calculating a best estimate pose from calculated vehicle poses of the associated feature pairs based on a highest-rated pair of the plurality of associated feature pairs, using an accumulated odometry to update the best estimate pose to a current localized position, updating the seed position as the current localized position, and operating the materials handling vehicle utilizing the updated seed position.

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CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION40 SOUTH WASHINGTON STREET NEW BREMEN OH 45869

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Chandrasekar, Kashyap Auckland, NZ 15 417
Estep, Ryan Christchurch, NZ 9 147
Thomson, Jacob Auckland, NZ 5 165
Waltz, Lucas Auckland, NZ 3 130

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