Systems, apparatuses, and methods for dynamic filtering of high intensity broadband electromagnetic waves from image data from a sensor coupled to a robot
AssigneeBrain Corporation
InventorsThomas Hrabe, Abdolhamid Badiozamani
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for dynamic filtering of high intensity broadband electromagnetic waves in image data from a sensor of a robot are disclosed herein. According to at least one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, sunlight or light emitted from nearby fluorescent lamps may cause a robot to generate false positives of objects nearby the robot as the light may be of high intensity and large bandwidth. These false positives may cause a robot to get stuck or navigate without use of a camera sensor, which may be unsafe.
Claims25
A robotic system for traveling along a trajectory, comprising:
- a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon;
- and
- at least one processor device configurable to execute the computer readable instructions to,
- obtain at least one image captured by a sensor coupled to the robotic system at a first time instance at a first location of a route traveled by the robotic system;
- detect at least one region of pixels within the respective at least one image comprising a mean intensity value exceeding a dynamic lighting intensity threshold;
- apply at least one mask to the at least one region such that the false positive is not detected as the robotic system travels the route at the first location at a subsequent second time instance;
- and
- maneuver the robotic system past the first location with the application of the at least one mask such that the false positive is no longer detected at the first location.
A method for traveling along a trajectory, comprising:
- at obtaining at least one image captured by a sensor coupled to the robotic system at a first time instance at a first location of a route traveled by the robotic system;
- detecting at least one region of pixels within the respective at least one image comprising a mean intensity value exceeding a dynamic lighting intensity threshold;
- applying at least one mask to the at least one region such that the false positive is not detected as the robotic system travels the route at the first location at a subsequent second time instance;
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- maneuvering the robotic system past the first location with the application of the at least one mask such that the false positive is no longer detected at the first location.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon that when executed by at least one processor device configure the at least one processor device to,
- maneuver, at a first time instance, a robot along a first trajectory along a path;
- detect, at the first time instance, a high intensity broadband electromagnetic wave by a sensor coupled to the robot while the robot maneuvers along the first trajectory;
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- maneuver, at the first time instance, the robot along a second trajectory along the path upon identifying a false positive along the first trajectory due to the detection of the high intensity broadband electromagnetic wave, the second trajectory being different from the first trajectory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.