US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus and method for controlling rail boarding for autonomous driving of a mobile robot" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,673, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling rail boarding for autonomous driving of a mobile robot" was invented by Ki Seok Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus for controlling rail boarding for autonomous driving of a mobile robot. The apparatus includes: a sensor module configured to acquire sensing information for recognizing a surrounding environment of the mobile robot; a detection module configured to detect a boarding target rail of the mobile robot based on the sensing ...