Movable platform for taking inventory and/or performing other actions on objects

A method for controlling movement of a movable platform for taking inventory and/or performing other actions on objects, the movable platform comprising:

• a traction system that moves the movable platform through an area,
• a sensor system that identifies objects in an area based on a characteristic, and creates information indicative of the identified objects and the position of the identified objects relative to the movable platform and in absolute space coordinates, and
• a control system, wherein the control system is adapted to:
• receive the information created by the sensor system,
• determine, in response to this information, a direction of movement or a partial path or a movement target for the movable platform based on the received information and without using a previously created map of the area, and
• control the traction system depending on the determined direction of movement or the partial path so that the movable platform moves in the determined direction or along the partial path or towards the movement target, wherein the control system obtains, from the information received from the sensor system, and a list of already identified objects stored in a repository of the control system, a set of newly identified objects in space and controls, depending on a measure derived from the set, the movement of the movable platform, and wherein the control system controls the movement of the movable platform depending on the measure derived from the set, wherein the measure is a gradient of a density of newly identified objects.