Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Pimenov

Dmitry Vitalievich Tatarnikov

Leonid Valerianovich Edelman

Michail Nikolaevich Smirnov

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Penkrat

Donna Kelley

Ivan Alexandrovich Bogdanyuk

Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov

Alexey Vedernikov

A vision-based sensor system is provided for heavy equipment or other machinery that determines the pose or position of the blade with respect to the heavy equipment vehicle where the sensor system comprises a vision-based blade position system having an image acquisition device and vision system processor.

Vision-based blade positioning

A vehicular positioning system utilizing multiple optical cameras having contiguous fields of view for reading coded markers having pre-determined positions for determining the position of vehicle inside a structure with a high degree of accuracy. The vehicle positioning system provides for the direct installation and use of a positioning apparatus on a vehicle with a limited number of coded markers to determine the vehicle's position to within millimeter level accuracy.

Apparatus and method for providing vehicular positioning

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St. Petersburg, Russia

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Pimenov