ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,458, issued on March 3, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Rail detection apparatus and method for autonomous driving of mobile robot in greenhouse environment" was invented by Su Yong An (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an apparatus and method for rail detection and control of a motion of a mobile robot for safely switching driving of the mobile robot between a flat area and a rail area in an environment in a greenhouse in which a rail is provided for pipe heating. For more accurate rail detection, accurate three-dimensional (3D) point cloud...