Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Corporation

Ho-Kong Ng

Piotr Jasiobedzki

Mingfeng Zhang

Michel Bondy

Timothy John Reedman

Darrell Gaudette

Cameron Scott Dickinson

The present disclosure provides a driving assistance method and system for a mobile vehicle to avoid hazards in its environment. This system can detect hazards in a vehicle's surroundings and unobtrusively adjust its driving module's driving commands when necessary to avoid hazards. The system is configured to allow it to provide interference-free assistance to the operator of a human-operated vehicle or the motion controller of an autonomous vehicle to avoid hazards.

Unobtrusive driving assistance method and system for a vehicle to avoid hazards

The present disclosure provides a robotic printing system for printing images on the surface of an object. One exemplary system includes a printing module carried by a motion platform to directly eject printing materials on a surface. One aspect of this disclosure provides methods for accurately controlling the motion of the motion platform, generating accurate triggering signals for printing heads, and properly aligning adjacent swaths of an image.

Robotic livery printing system

An object locator system for locating an object of interest in a scene. The locator system includes: a) a body mounted pedestrian localization unit worn by an operator; b) a hand-held rangefinder configured to be grasped by the operator; c) a pose sensor for estimating relative position and orientation of the hand-held rangefinder relative to the localization device; and d) a computer control system coupled to the pedestrian localization unit, the rangefinder, and the pose sensor, the computer control system being programmed to compute a relative location of the object with respect to the body worn localization unit using range data from the rangefinder and relative pose from the pose sensor, and transform the relative location to a global location using data from the pedestrian localization unit.

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Thornhill, Canada

Ho-Kong Ng