Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Sushruth Nagesh

Punarjay Chakravarty

Gaurav Pandey

Shubham Shrivastava

Sagar Manglani

Subodh Mishra

A robot can be moved in a structure that includes a plurality of downward-facing cameras, and, as the robot moves, upward images can be captured with an upward-facing camera mounted to the robot. Downward images can be captured with the respective downward-facing cameras. Upward-facing camera poses can be determined at respective times based on the upward images. Further, respective poses of the downward-facing cameras can be determined based on (a) describing motion of the robot from the downward images, and (b) the upward-facing camera poses determined from the upward images.

Infrastructure to support vehicle navigation

A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive at least one image frame from at least one camera, the at least one image frame showing a vehicle; determine at least one baseline pixel coordinate within one image frame for the vehicle; initialize a plurality of initial poses for the vehicle in a preset pattern; for each initial pose, determine a respective final pose by minimizing a reprojection error between the at least one baseline pixel coordinate and at least one respective estimated pixel coordinate, the at least one respective estimated pixel coordinate resulting from reprojecting the vehicle to pixel coordinates in the one image frame; and select a first final pose from the final poses, the first final pose having the lowest minimized reprojection error of the final poses.

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