Versatile mobile platform

US11199853B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AI Incorporated · CA

Inventors

• Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi · Toronto, CA
• Lukas Fath · York, CA
• Chen Zhang · Redmond, US
• Brian Highfill · Castro Valley, US
• Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi · San Diego, US
• Shahin Fathi Djalali · San Francisco, US
• Masih Ebrahimi Afrouzi · San Diego, US
• Azadeh Afshar Bakooshli · Henderson, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 11, 2019
• Grant date: Dec 14, 2021
• Expiry date: Mar 17, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/0268
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Provided is a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor effectuates operations including: capturing, with at least one exteroceptive sensor, readings of an environment and capturing, with at least one proprioceptive sensor, readings indicative of displacement of a wheeled device; estimating, with the processor using an ensemble of simulated positions of possible new locations of the wheeled device, the readings of the environment, and the readings indicative of displacement, a corrected position of the wheeled device to replace a last known position of the wheeled device; determining, by the processor using the readings of the exteroceptive sensor, a most feasible position of the wheeled device as the corrected position; and, transmitting, by the processor, status information of tasks performed by the wheeled device to an external processor, wherein the status information initiates a second wheeled device to perform a second task.