Semi-autonomous dolly

摘要

Various systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system comprises a track comprising one or more sections, the track including track indicators readable by a track indicator sensor and used to determine a dolly's position on the track, and the dolly including one or more sensors and a processor, the one or more sensors including the track indicator sensor, the processor executing instructions that control an operation of the dolly including moving the dolly at least semi-autonomously along the track based on the track indicators, wherein moving the dolly at least semi-autonomously includes one of moving the dolly autonomously and moving the dolly semi-autonomously.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a reconfigurable track comprising a plurality of connectable, portable, modular track sections, the plurality of connectable, portable, modular track sections including a first track section and a second track section, the first track section and the second track section each including two or more track indicators readable by a track indicator senor and used to build a virtual model of the reconfigurable track in a current configuration, wherein one or more safety parameters for movement of the dolly along the reconfigurable track are determined automatically based on the virtual model of the reconfigurable track used to determine a dolly's position on the track and; the dolly including one or more sensors and a processor, the one or more sensors including the track indicator sensor, the dolly including a removable camera as a payload, a movement of the removable camera controlled independent of a movement of the dolly, the processor executing instructions that control an operation of the dolly including moving the dolly at least semi-autonomously along the reconfigurable track based on the track indicators, wherein the virtual model of the current configuration of the reconfigurable track is generated based on the track indicator sensor reading the track indicators of the first and second track sections, wherein moving the dolly at least semi-autonomously includes one of moving the dolly autonomously and moving the dolly semi-autonomously, the movement of the dolly restricted based on one or more thresholds associated with one or more safety parameters, the one or more thresholds determined based on the virtual model of the current configuration of the reconfigurable track and the dolly's position on the reconfigurable track, the position of the dolly on the track determined based in part on a detection of a track indicator.