autonomous vehicle systems employing an operator guided "teach" or "demonstration" cycle which is followed by autonomous operation according to the "taught" or "demonstrated" path, in the nature of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) primarily composed of vision guided navigation devices with three dimensional ranging sensors such as stereo cameras, computer hardware and software for creating a 3-D representation of the environment scanned by the sensors, computer hardware, and software to power ...

Industrial robots