Bae Systems, Inc.

Gary Martin Cross

Mark Robert Goodall

James Duncan Revell

A system and method for controlling a vehicle (), the vehicle () having an autonomous mode of operation, the system comprising: one or more sensors () configured to measure one or more parameters associated with an operator () controlling the vehicle () to perform a first operation; and one or more processors () configured to: determine that measurements taken by the one or more sensors () fulfil one or more predetermined criteria; responsive to determining that the measurements taken by the one or more sensors () fulfil the one or more predetermined criteria, determine a second operation for performance by the vehicle (); and control the vehicle () in the autonomous mode such that the vehicle () performs the second operation.

Control of autonomous vehicles

An optical inertial measurement method for determining a 6DOF pose in respect of a moving platform, the method comprising providing, in respect of said moving platform, a camera unit () comprised of at least three monocular cameras () connected rigidly together and configured such that their fields of view do not overlap and cover motion of said platform in each of three principal, substantially orthogonal axes; receiving video outputs from each of said cameras; determining individual point correspondences from said video outputs, and estimating therefrom, for each camera, a transform that includes translation values representative of direction of translation in the x and y axes, rotation about the optical axis and a scale factor, each transform being expressed with respect to a local 3D coordinate system associated with a respective camera; and mapping said translation values in the x and y axes to a global 3D coordinate system, having its origin defined by a point between said cameras, and multiplying said translation values by a respective scale factor so as to determine a 6DOF pose in respect of said camera unit. An optical inertial measurement system is also disclosed.

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Gary Martin Cross