MULTI-SENSOR ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING

• Main Authors: LING, Yonggen, MO, Weiyu, LIU, Ang
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.04.2017
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CONTROLLING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; REGULATING; SURVEYING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TESTING

Systems and methods for controlling a movable object within an environment are provided. In one aspect, a method may comprise: determining, using at least one of a plurality of sensors carried by the movable object, an initial location of the movable object; generating a first signal to cause the movable object to navigate within the environment; receiving, using the at least one of the plurality of sensors, sensing data pertaining to the environment; generating, based on the sensing data, an environmental map representative of at least a portion of the environment; receiving an instruction to return to the initial location; and generating a second signal to cause the movable object to return to the initial location, based on the environmental map.