Sidewalk edge finder system and method
AssigneeStarship Technologies Oü
InventorRasmus RAAG
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Abstract
A method includes acquiring at least one image with at least one camera associated with at least one mobile robot; and extracting a plurality of straight lines from the at least one image; creating at least one dataset comprising data related to the plurality of straight lines extracted from the at least one image; forming a plurality of hypotheses for a walkway boundary based on the at least one dataset and determining at least one hypothesis with the highest likelihood of representing a walkway boundary; and using the at least one hypothesis to adjust a direction and/or speed of motion of the at least one mobile robot.
Claims36
A method comprising:
- (a) acquiring at least one image with at least one camera associated with at least one mobile robot;
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- (b) extracting a plurality of lines from the at least one image acquired in (a);
- (c) creating at least one dataset comprising data related to the plurality of lines extracted from the at least one image in (b);
- (d) forming a plurality of hypotheses for a walkway boundary based on the at least one dataset and determining at least one hypothesis with the highest likelihood of representing a walkway boundary;
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- (e) using the at least one hypothesis determined in (d) to navigate the at least one mobile robot.
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A system comprising:
- (a) at least one camera associated with at least one mobile robot, the at least one camera adapted to acquire at least one image;
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- (b) at least one processing component constructed and adapted to at least extract a plurality of lines from the at least one image, create at least one dataset comprising data related to the plurality of lines extracted from the at least one image, and form a plurality of hypotheses for a walkway boundary based on the at least one dataset and determine at least one hypothesis with the highest likelihood of representing a walkway boundary.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium with one or more computer programs stored therein that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform at least the operations of:
- (a) acquiring at least one image with at least one camera associated with at least one mobile robot;
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- (b) extracting a plurality of lines from the at least one image acquired in (a);
- (c) creating at least one dataset comprising data related to the plurality of lines extracted from the at least one image in (b);
- (d) forming a plurality of hypotheses for a walkway boundary based on the at least one dataset and determining at least one hypothesis with the highest likelihood of representing a walkway boundary;
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- (e) using the at least one hypothesis determined in (d) to navigate the at least one mobile robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.