Vehicle autonomous collision prediction and escaping system (ACE)

F Xiao, CF Pouliot - US Patent 10,949,885, 2021 - Google Patents
Embodiments herein relate to an autonomous vehicle or self-driving vehicle. The system can
determine a collision avoidance path by: 1) predicting the behavior/trajectory of other …

Collision avoidance systems and methods

PA Stewart, J Wellbelove, M Rivers - US Patent 10,431,099, 2019 - Google Patents
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to generate image data based on
avoidance areas for mobile targets and/or mobile structures. A collision avoidance system …

Controlling unmanned aerial vehicles to avoid obstacle collision

ATS Fragoso, LH Matthies, R Brockers… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
A method, device, framework, and system provide the ability to control an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) to avoid obstacle collision. Range data of a real-world scene is acquired …

Marine vessel station keeping systems and methods

AJ Ward - US Patent 10,322,787, 2019 - Google Patents
A system for maintaining a marine vessel in a body of water at a selected position and
orientation includes a global positioning system that determines a global position and …

Motion planning for autonomous vehicles and reconfigurable motion planning processors

DJ Sorin, GD Konidaris, W Floyd-jones… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A system for motion planning for autonomous vehicles can include a plurality of sensors, a
plurality of detectors in electrical communication with the plurality of sensors, and a motion …

Gaussian mixture models for temporal depth fusion

LH Matthies, C Cigla - US Patent 11,461,912, 2022 - Google Patents
A method and system provide for temporal fusion of depth maps in an image space
representation. A series of depth maps are obtained/acquired from one or more depth …

Station keeping and waypoint tracking methods

JS Arbuckle, TS Kirchhoff, MJ Lemancik - US Patent 10,198,005, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for controlling movement of a marine vessel includes controlling
a propulsion device to automatically maneuver the vessel along a track including a series of …

Motion planning of a robot storing a discretized environment on one or more processors and improved operation of same

D Sorin, G Konidaris, S Murray… - US Patent 11,235,465, 2022 - Google Patents
A robot control system determines which of a number of discretizations to use to generate
discretized representations of robot swept volumes and to generate discretized repre …

Station keeping system and method

JS Arbuckle, SJ Andrasko, DM Van Buren - US Patent 10,671,073, 2020 - Google Patents
A method for maintaining a marine vessel at a global position and/or heading includes
receiving measurements related to vessel attitude and estimating water roughness …

Apparatus, methods and articles to facilitate motion planning in environments having dynamic obstacles

W Floyd-jones, B Willey, G Konidaris… - US Patent 11,634,126, 2023 - Google Patents
B60W—CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR
DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID …