Vehicle positioning or navigation utilizing associated feature pairs

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9984467
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14751375

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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.

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CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION40 S WASHINGTON ST 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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