Method for computer assisted processing of a structure comprising a first element and a second element belonging together

• US 20030117862A1
• Filed: 10/24/2002
• Published: 06/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Feiten, Wendelin, Rencken, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US10/182,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20030117862A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 365/200
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0274 using mapping information stored in a memory device navigation using map-matching G01C21/30

Abstract

Computer assisted processing is performed for a structure having a first element and a second element belonging together, where a third position of the first element is determined by a first position of the first element and a changed second position of the first element. On processing, the structure at least one fourth position of the second element of the structure is altered, based on the third position of the first element.

Claims

1. A method for the computer-assisted processing of a structure comprising a first element and a second element belonging together,

in which a third position of the first element is determined by using a first position of the first element and a changed second position of the first element;

in which, on processing the structure, at least one fourth position of the second element of the structure is changed by using the third position of the first element.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which an element is described by at least one point and a line of predefinable shape.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, in which a position of an element is described by the point of the element and an orientation of the line of the element.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, in which the third position of the first element is determined by an angle between a first orientation of the first position of the first element and a second orientation of the second position of the first element being determined, the angle being averaged and a direction of the averaged angle describing a third orientation of the third position of the first element.

5. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 4, in which the fourth position of the second element is changed in such a way that the energy which has to be expended for a change in at least one position of the first element and one position of the second element is minimized.

6. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 5, in which the processed structure is entered in a map.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, in which the map is recorded by using a recording means.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, in which the map is recorded at least with one of the following recording means:

with an acoustic sensor;

with an optical sensor, in particular a camera.

9. The method as claimed in claim 5, in which the map is used for planning the travel path of a mobile autonomous device.

10. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 8, in which a mobile device is monitored and/or controlled by using the changed structure.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, in which a robot is used as the mobile device.

12. An arrangement for the computer-assisted processing of a structure comprising a first element and a second element which belong together, having a processor which is set up in such a way that the following steps can be carried out

a third position of the first element is determined by using a first position of the first element and a changed second position of the first element;

on processing the structure, at least one fourth position of the second element of the structure is changed by using the third position of the first element.