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title: "Autonomous or assisted driving of an industrial truck using a camera and a lidar"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:08:36.434722Z"
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# Autonomous or assisted driving of an industrial truck using a camera and a lidar

## Abstract

An industrial truck having an autonomous and/or assisted driving function for positioning the industrial truck with respect to a target object, comprising: means for handling a load, a video camera configured to generate image data relating to a visual field, a LIDAR device configured to generate point cloud data relating to the visual field, and control means connected with the video camera in order to receive image data generated by the video camera and connected with the LIDAR device to receive point cloud data generated by the LIDAR device. The control means is configured to: acquire image data from the video camera and point cloud data from the LIDAR device relating to the same visual field; recognise the target object in an image by image processing applied to the acquired image data, wherein the control means is configured to identify a region of interest, ROI, in the image in which the target object is included; associate the acquired point cloud data within the ROI with the target object recognised in the image, including selecting a subset of the plurality of points of the point cloud within the ROI that corresponds to the target object; and control the autonomous and/or assisted driving function based on the point cloud data associated with the recognised target object. (fig. 1)