Vision system for correcting position of golf vehicle
AssigneeTextron Inc.
InventorsShayne Evan Rimer, Brad Hof, Lance Fielder
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Abstract
A golf vehicle system includes a vision system including at least one sensor configured to facilitate acquiring vision data of an environment surrounding a golf vehicle and one or more processing circuits configured to determine, based on the vision data, a detected location of the golf vehicle relative to a marker included in the vision data. The marker is associated with a known location at a golf course. The one or more processing circuits are configured to determine a corrective position of the golf vehicle based on the detected location and the known location.
Claims21
A golf vehicle system comprising:
- a vision system including at least one sensor configured to facilitate acquiring vision data of an environment surrounding a golf vehicle;
- and
- one or more processing circuits configured to:
- acquire a tracked location of the golf vehicle;
- determine, based on the vision data, a detected location of the golf vehicle relative to a marker included in the vision data, the marker associated with a known location at a golf course;
- and
- determine a corrective position of the golf vehicle relative to the tracked location based on the tracked location, the detected location, and the known location.
A vehicle system comprising:
- one or more processing circuits including one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors, the one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- acquire a tracked location of a vehicle;
- acquire vision data including a marker in an environment surrounding the vehicle, the marker associated with a known location;
- determine a detected location of the vehicle relative to the marker based on the vision data, the detected location including a distance and an orientation of the vehicle relative to the marker;
- determine a corrective position of the vehicle relative to the tracked location based on the tracked location, the detected location, and the known location;
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- control an operation of the vehicle based on the corrective position.
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A golf vehicle system comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- acquire a tracked location of a golf vehicle;
- acquire vision data including a first marker in an environment surrounding the golf vehicle, the first marker associated with a first known location;
- determine a detected location of the golf vehicle relative to the first marker based on the vision data, the detected location including a distance and an orientation of the golf vehicle relative to the first marker;
- acquire vision data of a ground surface including a second marker associated with a second known location, the second marker positioned along the ground surface such that as the golf vehicle drives over or proximate the second marker, the vision data including the second marker is acquired;
- determine at least one of (i) a corrective position of the golf vehicle relative to the tracked location based on the tracked location, the detected location, and the first known location or (ii) responsive to driving over or proximate the second marker, that the corrective position of the golf vehicle is the second known location of the second marker;
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- control an operation of the golf vehicle based on the corrective position of the golf vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.