Southwest Research Institute

Omar D Medjaouri

Joseph N Mitchell

Edmond M DuPont

Christopher I Mentzer

Samuel E Slocum

Andrew R Moore

Stephen A Geiger

Trent Marshall Hejazi

David J Anthony

A method of providing a collision avoiding travel path for an autonomous vehicle. A sensor system obtains stereo image data of a scene in the environment ahead of the normal travel path. This image data is used to generate a disparity image. The disparity image is processed to generate an occupancy map that assigns values to areas of the scene based on levels of visual clutter. The occupancy map is then converted to a potential field, which assigns each pixel in the scene with a force value that corresponds to its proximity to one or more obstacles. These force value are summed and used to modify the vehicle's path is a collision is likely.

Obstacle detection and avoidance system for autonomous aircraft and other autonomous vehicles

A motion prediction system for predicting the motion of a random animate subject. A first neural network is a markerless motion capture network, trained to receive video data of the subject and to process the video data to generate a time sequence of musculoskeletal motion capture data. A second neural network is a motion prediction network, trained to receive the musculoskeletal motion capture data and to process the data to generate a prediction of the subject's location based on position change in position of joints and/or muscles.

Markerless motion capture of animate subject with prediction of future motion

A dazzling system has at least one strobe illuminator and multiple imaging optics, which may be of various types. All strobe illuminators are synchronized to each other and the imaging optics are synchronized to all strobe illuminators. The imaging optics may be in-phase or out-of-phase. Various embodiments are possible depending on the application, but in all applications the strobe illuminator(s) disrupt the vision of unauthorized persons while allowing users of the system to view a scenario.

Strobed illuminators (dazzler) with synchronized imaging optics

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Omar D Medjaouri