Leidos, Inc.

Science Applications International Corporation

Weicheng Shen

Suk R Lee

Nahid Sidki

Andrew Genduso

Rex David Richardson

Ernest E Muenchau

James Henry Winso

Jaroslaw W Tuszynski

A system of modular components can be used with existing sensor suites to fuse data and determine the operating environment (surface contacts/tracks) for an autonomous marine vehicle and feed an autonomy decision engine to improve the vessel arbitration process in deciding which way to turn, how fast to go, obstacle avoidance, and mission monitoring. The system includes the ability to obey the set of navigation rules published by the International Maritime Organization, generally referred to as COLREGS (collision regulations).

System and method for fusion of sensor data to support autonomous maritime vessels

The present invention relates to systems and methods for characterizing targets, e.g., trucks, pallets, trains, cars, and the like, using digital target imaging. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention provide, at base: a) image segmentation and filtering to identify surrounding white space, interior walls, floor, and ceiling of the container; morphology routines to identify and classify objects found inside the container; and decision routines to report status of container as empty or non-empty with a confidence factor from 1-100.

Methods and systems for imaging and classifying targets as empty or non-empty

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Weicheng Shen