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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2016
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Dimitris Zermas, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Izzat H. Izzat, Oak Park, CA (US);
Anuradha Mangalgiri, Agoura Hills, CA (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
An object-detection system suitable for an automated vehicle includes a lidar and a controller. The lidar is used to detect a point-cloud that is organized into a plurality of scan-lines. The controller is in communication with the lidar. The controller is configured to classify each detected point in the point-cloud as a ground-point or a non-ground-point, define runs of non-ground-points, where each run characterized by one or multiple instances of adjacent non-ground-points in a scan-line separated from a subsequent run of one or more non-ground-points by at least one instance of a ground-point, define a cluster of non-ground-points associated with the object. The cluster is characterized by a first run from a first scan-line being associated with a second run from a second scan-line when a first point from the first run is displaced less than a distance-threshold from a second point from the second run.