SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SURFACE FEATURE DETECTION AND TRAVERSAL

There is described a method for navigating at least one substantially discontinuous surface feature (SDSF) encountered by a transport device (TD), the TD traveling a path over a surface, the surface including the at least one SDSF, the path including a starting point and an ending point, the method...

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Main Authors STEELE, Patrick, MISHRA, Arunabh, CHATURVEDI, Yashovardhan, KHANNA, Kartik, CARRIGG, David, HERSH, Benjamin V, PAWLOWSKI, Daniel F, BUITKUS, Gregory J, CARRIGG, Emily A, SIVA PERUMAL, Fnu G
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 19.06.2024
Subjects
CONTROLLING
GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS
MEASURING
MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS
NAVIGATION
PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
PHYSICS
REGULATING
SURVEYING
SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
TESTING
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Summary:There is described a method for navigating at least one substantially discontinuous surface feature (SDSF) encountered by a transport device (TD), the TD traveling a path over a surface, the surface including the at least one SDSF, the path including a starting point and an ending point, the method comprising: accessing point cloud data representing the surface; forming the point cloud data into processable parts; merging the processable parts into at least one concave polygon; locating and labeling the at least one SDSF in the at least one concave polygon, the locating and labeling forming labeled point cloud data; creating graphing polygons based at least on the at least one concave polygon; and choosing the path from the starting point to the ending point based at least on the graphing polygons, the TD traversing the at least one SDSF along the path.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20240169138