Autonomous Rover for Detection of Precious Metals and Meteorites
AssigneeCraig Flanagan
InventorCRAIG Thomas FLANAGAN
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Abstract
Described herein is a rover-based method and system for finding gold nuggets, meteorites and other minerals detectable by electronic-based means. The rover runs autonomously after being provided with a waypoint mission by the operator. The autonomy of movement includes obstacle detection and avoidance. Target mineral detection is accomplished by means of a trained convolutional neural network which interprets audible and/or electronic signals from an integral metal detector. Missions run by the rover include, but are not limited to, detection of gold nuggets and meteorites.
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A rover for use in the detection and location of gold or other valuable minerals, comprising:
- a vehicle;
- a metal detecting apparatus;
- a means of self-navigation.
A means of determining the presence of valuable minerals consisting of:
- an artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithm to assess electronic and/or audible output
- from a metal detector;
- a self-navigating rover to carry said metal detector and said AI-based processing algorithm.
An algorithmic method for the determination of the presence of a valuable mineral consisting of:
- an AI-based platform to assess electronic and/or audible output of a metal detector;
- a two or more staged/tiered target evaluation process;
- one or more user defined probabilistic thresholds within said algorithmic method.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.