Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.

Ivan Alexandrovich Bogdanyuk

Donna Kelley

Alexey Vladislavovich Zhdanov

Nikolay Nikolaevich Vasilyuk

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Pimenov

Mikhail Yurievich Vorobiev

Alexey Vedernikov

Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov

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 system and method are provided for determining the position and orientation of an implement on a work machine in a non-contact manner using machine vision. A 3D camera, which is mounted on the vehicle with a field of view that includes components on the implement (e.g., markers in some examples), determines a three-dimensional position in a local coordinate system of each of the components. A global positioning system in cooperation with an inertial measurement unit determines a three-dimensional position and orientation of the 3D camera in a global coordinate system. A computing system calculates a three-dimensional position in the global coordinate system for the components using the local three-dimensional positions of the components and the global three-dimensional position and orientation of the 3D camera. The position and orientation of the implement can then be calculated based on the calculated global three-dimensional positions of the components.

System and method for controlling an implement on a work machine using machine vision

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Primorsky Kraj, Russia

Ivan Alexandrovich Bogdanyuk