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Navigation systems and methods for wheeled objects

  • US 10,730,541 B2
  • Filed: 03/24/2017
  • Issued: 08/04/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for navigating with a human-propelled, non-motorized, wheeled cart in a tracking area comprising a first region and a second region, the method comprising:

  • receiving, from a source external to the cart, a start navigation signal indicating the cart has crossed a boundary between the first region and the second region;

    performing, with a navigation system and in response to the start navigation signal, a navigation process;

    estimating, with the navigation system, a position of the cart;

    determining a heading of the cart relative to the boundary between the first region and the second region;

    determining, based at least in part on the heading of the cart and the receipt of the start navigation signal, which of the first region and the second region the cart is entering;

    performing, in response to a determination that the cart is entering the first region and in response to the receipt of the start navigation signal, a first navigation action; and

    performing, in response to a determination that the cart is entering the second region and in response to the receipt of the start navigation signal, a second navigation action that is different from the first navigation action.

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