Auto-Reach Method and System for a Remote Vehicle

Patent №

US 9,770,823

Granted

2017-09-26

Filed 2015

Owner

IROBOT CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14682428

The present teachings provide a method of controlling a remote vehicle having an end effector and an image sensing device. The method includes obtaining an image of an object with the image sensing device, determining a ray from a focal point of the image to the object based on the obtained image, positioning the end effector of the remote vehicle to align with the determined ray, and moving the end effector along the determined ray to approach the object.

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AI classification

Vision0.95
Planning0.93
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

IROBOT CORPORATION

assignment · 376070300

Assignors

HUANG, WESLEY HANAN, PHILLIPS, EMILIE A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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