Patent ID: 11873195
Assignee: TMEIC CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method of identifying a landing position on target equipment or a chassis for an object or container according to the position and orientation of the target equipment or chassis, the method comprising:
obtaining a point cloud model of a current target equipment or chassis landing surface which is disposed in a frame of reference of a crane;
aligning a point cloud model of a reference target equipment or chassis landing surface with the point cloud model of the current target equipment or chassis landing surface, within a selected degree of matching, wherein the aligning comprises weighted matching of identifying features of the current target equipment or chassis landing surface and of the reference target equipment or chassis landing surface with adaptive learning compensation;
wherein the aligning comprises positioning the reference target equipment or chassis landing surface at an expected position and orientation in the frame of reference of the crane; and
producing a set of coordinates in the frame of reference as a result of the aligning, which coordinates represent a landing position for placing the object or container on the landing surface of the current target equipment or chassis.