Determining position of a container handling equipment
AssigneeKonecranes Global Corporation
InventorsVille Mannari, Jussi Lehtiö
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Abstract
A method comprising detecting a reflector unit that comprises a plurality of reflector elements arranged in a pre-determined manner with respect to each other, identifying the reflector unit based, at least partly, on its characteristics, and determining a location of a container handling equipment based, at least partly, on the identified reflector unit.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- detecting a reflector unit using optical detection means comprising one or more of:
- a multilayer LIDAR;
- time of flight camera;
- or stereo camera;
- where the reflector unit comprises a plurality of reflector elements arranged in a pre-determined manner, the reflector elements having different planar orientations with respect to each other;
- identifying the reflector unit based, at least partly, on its characteristic reflector element orientation;
- and
- determining a location of a container handling equipment based, at least partly, on the identified reflector unit.
An apparatus comprising:
- an optical detection means comprising one or more of:
- a multilayer LIDAR;
- time of flight camera;
- or stereo camera;
- at least one processor, and at least one memory including a computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- detect a reflector unit that comprises a plurality of reflector elements arranged in a pre-determined manner, the reflector elements having different planar orientations with respect to each other;
- identify the reflector unit based, at least partly, on its characteristic reflector element orientation;
- and
- determine a location of a container handling equipment based, at least partly, on the identified reflector unit.
A computer program product comprising computer program code stored in a non-transitory memory medium, the computer program code being configured to cause an apparatus, when executing the program code by a processor circuitry, to perform at least the following:
- detect a reflector unit using optical detection means comprising one or more of:
- a multilayer LIDAR;
- time of flight camera;
- or stereo camera
- where the reflector unit comprises a plurality of reflector elements arranged in a pre-determined manner, the reflector elements having different planar orientations with respect to each other;
- identify the reflector unit based, at least partly, on its characteristic reflector element orientation;
- and
- determine a location of a container handling equipment based, at least partly, on the identified reflector unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.