OPENTECHNICAL PUBLICATION
OT-2026-000001776

Autonomous or assisted driving of an industrial truck using a camera and a lidar

Published: 2026-09-15T19:08:36.434722Z
Permanent URL: https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001776
Categories: Lifting, Positioning & Manipulation > Lift Tables and Positioners

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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)

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OpenTechnical publication OT-2026-000001776
Published 2026-09-15T19:08:36.434722Z
https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001776