Southwest Research Institute

Plus One Robotics, Inc.

Joshua Justin Curtis

Paul Hvass

Shaun Edwards

Erik Nieves

Kristopher Charles Kozak

Paul A Avery

George T McWilliams

Reda Laurent Bouraoui

A package scanning conveyance system that integrates a first two-dimensional image with at least a second two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional point clouds to calculate or estimate a package's physical properties, and/or determine if there are two or more packages in a pile. The captured imaging data is transformed by the inventive system to provide real-time feedback to a human operator to enable the operator to maintain an understanding of the system's performance. The imaging data may also be used to perform quality-checks on other parts of the package delivery and conveyance systems and document the condition of packages that have passed through the system.

Systems and methods for identifying package properties in an automated industrial robotics system

A method for defining a following path for a following vehicle to autonomously follow a leader, the method including acquiring waypoints associated with a path that the leader traverses; filtering the acquired waypoints, wherein the filtering removes waypoints located outside an area of interest; generating intermediate waypoints by interpolating between adjacent pairs of the filtered waypoints if the adjacent pairs of the filtered waypoints are separated by a distance that exceeds a threshold distance; and defining a following path through the filtered waypoints and the intermediate waypoints using a least-squares spline fit to calculate the following path.

Waypoint splining for autonomous vehicle following

A method and system for using vehicle-to-vehicle cooperative communications for traffic collision avoidance. One vehicle detects a 'situation', such as a pedestrian within the crosswalk, where an 'offending object' is in or near a roadway feature, which could result in a collision. The detecting vehicle informs a second vehicle via wireless communications, of the detecting vehicle's GPS location, the GPS location of the detected object, and the GPS location of the roadway feature, i.e., a crosswalk boundary. Additional data about the &#x201c;offending object&#x201d; can include its speed and heading. A receiving vehicle receives this data and takes appropriate avoidance action.

Cooperative sensor-sharing vehicle traffic safety system

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San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Joshua Justin Curtis