Technologies for lidar based moving object detection

An autonomous compute device to monitor a movement of an object, the autonomous compute device comprising:

• an optical communication system to capture first optical data while the autonomous compute device is at a first location and second optical data while the autonomous compute device is at a second location;
• a movement manager to move the autonomous compute device from a first location to a second location different from the first location;
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• an object analyzer to:
• determine a first relative position of an object relative to the autonomous compute device at the first location based on the first optical data;
• determine a predicted second relative position of the object relative to the autonomous compute device at the second location;
• and
• determine whether the object is at the predicted second relative position based on the second optical data.

A method for monitoring a movement of an object with an autonomous compute device, the method comprising:

• capturing, by an optical communication system of the autonomous compute device, first optical data while the autonomous compute device is at a first location;
• determining, by the autonomous compute device, a first relative position of an object relative to the autonomous compute device at the first location based on the first optical data;
• moving, by the autonomous compute device, to a second location different from the first location;
• capturing, by the optical communication system of the autonomous compute device, second optical data while the autonomous compute device is at the second location;
• determining, by the autonomous compute device, a predicted second relative position of the object relative to the autonomous compute device at the second location;
• and
• determining, by the autonomous compute device, whether the object is at the predicted second relative position based on the second optical data.

One or more machine-readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed, causes an autonomous compute device to:

• capture first optical data while the autonomous compute device is at a first location;
• determine a first relative position of an object relative to the autonomous compute device at the first location based on the first optical data;
• move the autonomous compute device from the first location to a second location different from the first location;
• capture second optical data while the autonomous compute device is at a second location;
• determine a predicted second relative position of the object relative to the autonomous compute device at the second location;
• and
• determine whether the object is at the predicted second relative position based on the second optical data.