Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Navigation for a robotic work tool
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Application No.: US15539356Application Date: 2015-11-26
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Publication No.: US10598793B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Magnus Öhrlund , Peter Reigo
- Applicant: HUSQVARNA AB
- Applicant Address: SE Huskvarna
- Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
- Current Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
- Current Assignee Address: SE Huskvarna
- Agency: Burr & Forman LLP
- Priority: SE14516629 20141224
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/077844 WO 20151126
- International Announcement: WO2016/102141 WO 20160630
- Main IPC: G01S19/14
- IPC: G01S19/14 ; A01D34/00 ; G01C21/16 ; G01S19/49 ; G05D1/02

Abstract:
A robotic work tool system, comprising a robotic work tool, said robotic work tool comprising a position determining device for determining a current position and at least one deduced reckoning (also known as dead reckoning) navigation sensor, the robotic work tool being configured to determine that a reliable and accurate current position is possible to determine and in response thereto determine an expected navigation parameter, compare the expected navigation parameter to a current navigation parameter to determine a navigation error, determine if the navigation error is negligible, and if the navigation error is not negligible, cause the robotic work tool to change its trajectory to accommodate for the navigation error. Wherein the robotic work tool (100) is further configured to change the trajectory by aligning the trajectory with an expected trajectory, wherein the expected trajectory is determined as an expected direction originating from an expected position and wherein the robotic work tool (100) is configured to change the trajectory by returning to a position that should have been visited and aligning the trajectory with the expected direction originating from the expected position, said position that should have been visited being aligned with the expected direction originating from the expected position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170357006A1 IMPROVED NAVIGATION FOR A ROBOTIC WORK TOOL Public/Granted day:2017-12-14
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