Determining position, orientation of navigating system, e.g. robot, involves determining parameters of translation, rotation transformations of distance measurement curve to determine characteristic associations between transformed curves

摘要

The method involves distance scanning of a region of the environment in front of the moving system, storing scanned distance points of at least two successive scanning processes, searching the resulting distance measurement curves for characteristic values e.g. extreme values and determining parameters of separately conducted translation and rotation transformations of one curve to determine associations of characteristics between transformed curves.