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US 12,631,458 B2Granted
Systems and methods for the detection of roads
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorsJan Ernest Sobus, Carrie-Ann Nicole Bynon, Russell Allen Brockhurst, Gregory Davis, Edward Powers Hillmann
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Abstract
A system and method for generating or updating roads in a travel network of a work site. Telemetry data received from machines operating at the work site is received by a road determination module. The road determination module analyzes the telemetry data to find similar trajectories. The similar trajectories are identified as a road. The route determination module thereafter uses the roads generated or updated to manage the machines at the work site.
Claims19
A method of detecting a road, the method comprising:
- receiving first telemetry data from a first machine, the first telemetry data comprising a plurality of first positions of the first machine along a first travel path from an origination location to a destination location;
- receiving second telemetry data from a second machine, the second telemetry data comprising a plurality of second positions of the second machine along a second travel path from the origination location to the destination location;
- identifying a first type of the first machine and a second type of the second machine;
- identifying the first travel path as being traveled by the first type of the first machine;
- identifying the second travel path as being traveled by the second type of the second machine;
- determining that the plurality of first positions along the first travel path and the plurality of second positions along the second travel path comprises a similar trajectory;
- and
- based on determining that the plurality of first positions along the first travel path and the plurality of second positions along the second travel path comprises the similar trajectory, identifying the similar trajectory as the road.
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A network, comprising:
- a memory storing computer-executable instructions;
- and
- a processor in communication with the memory, the computer-executable instructions causing the processor to perform acts comprising:
- receiving first telemetry data from a first machine, the first telemetry data comprising a plurality of first positions of the first machine along a first travel path from an origination location to a destination location;
- receiving second telemetry data from a second machine, the second telemetry data comprising a plurality of second positions of the second machine along a second travel path from the origination location to the destination location;
- identifying a first type of the first machine and a second type of the second machine;
- identifying the first travel path as being traveled by the first type of the first machine;
- identifying the second travel path as being traveled by the second type of the second machine;
- determining that the plurality of first positions along the first travel path and the plurality of second positions along the second travel path comprises a similar trajectory;
- and
- based on determining that the plurality of first positions along the first travel path and the plurality of second positions along the second travel path comprises the similar trajectory, identifying the similar trajectory as a road.
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A non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving first telemetry data from a first machine, the first telemetry data comprising a plurality of first positions of the first machine along a first travel path from an origination location to a destination location;
- receiving second telemetry data from a second machine, the second telemetry data comprising a plurality of second positions of the second machine along a second travel path from the origination location to the destination location;
- identifying a first type of the first machine and a second type of the second machine;
- identifying the first travel path as being traveled by the first type of the first machine;
- identifying the second travel path as being traveled by the second type of the second machine;
- determining that the plurality of first positions along the first travel path and the plurality of second positions along the second travel path comprises a similar trajectory;
- and
- based on determining that the plurality of first positions along the first travel path and the plurality of second positions along the second travel path comprises the similar trajectory, identifying the similar trajectory as a road.
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