Florida Power & Light Company

Quantum Spatial, Inc.

Scott Nowicki

Seth Hill

Richard Armstrong

Eric Davis Schwartz

Stephen S Cross

David Wendeborn

Michael Gilbertson

Kyle Bush

David Brandt

Keith Nowicki

Various embodiments are directed to a method for docking a robotic platform. The method may include receiving a robotic platform onto a ramp of a docking station. The docking station may include the ramp, a roller assembly, a base pad, and a roller backstop assembly. The ramp may have a first side and a second side opposing the first side. The method may further include guiding, by the roller assembly, the robotic platform as the robotic platform is being driven onto ramp such that the robotic platform continues powered travel over the ramp when the robotic platform approaches the ramp within an angle range of 0 and 15 degrees with respect to either of the first and second sides of the ramp. The method may further include receiving, by the roller backstop assembly, the robotic platform from the roller assembly and then docking the robotic platform.

Method for the automated docking of robotic platforms

Various embodiments are directed to a docking station for a robotic platform. The docking station may include a ramp having a first side and a second side opposing the first side, a base pad, a roller assembly, and a roller backstop assembly. The roller assembly may be coupled to the ramp and the base pad. The roller assembly may be configured to allow a robotic platform being driven towards the ramp to continue powered travel onto the ramp for docking when the robotic platform approaches the ramp within an angle range of 0 and 15 degrees with respect to either of the first and second sides of the ramp. The roller backstop assembly may be coupled to the roller assembly and the base pad. The roller backstop assembly may receive the robotic platform from the roller assembly to dock the robotic platform.

System for the automated docking of robotic platforms

Various embodiments are directed to facilitating imagery and point-cloud based facility modeling and remote change detection. A computing device may receive collected data for a facility. The collected data may include spatial image data obtained from light detection imaging and ranging systems (LiDAR), multispectral data, and thermal data. The computing device may then analyze, based on software models generated for previously collected data for the facility, the collected data to determine changes in the previously collected data. The computing device may then update the models upon determining changes in the previously collected data. Finally, the computing device may generate an alert based on the updated models when any changes in the previously collected data are above a predetermined threshold corresponding to a current security or operational condition associated with the facility.

Systems and methods for facilitating imagery and point-cloud based facility modeling and remote change detection

Disclosed systems and methods for the remote detection of atmospheric gas may include (1) receiving, at a collector, thermal infrared energy from at least one atmospheric column, (2) receiving, at optical subsystems, the thermal infrared energy over optical paths, (3) focusing the thermal infrared energy onto diffraction gratings that disperse the thermal infrared energy at a wavelength within a mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) spectral region and a wavelength within a long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) spectral region, (4) receiving, at detectors, the thermal infrared energy dispersed from the diffraction gratings within the MWIR spectral region and the LWIR spectral region, (5) determining spectral component data associated with the thermal infrared energy in the MWIR spectral region and the LWIR spectral region, (6) sending the spectral component data to a computing device, and (7) identifying an atmospheric gas based on the spectral component data.

Systems and methods for the remote detection of greenhouse atmospheric gas

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