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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2016
X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark Fischer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Holmberg, Mountain View, CA (US);
X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Example implementations may relate to a mobile robotic device that is operable to reorient a distance sensor using an adjustable leveler. According to these implementations, the robotic device may determine a height map indicating surface elevation data for a ground surface on which the robotic device is travelling within an environment. Then, the robotic device may determine a current location of the robotic device relative to the height map. Based on the current location, the robotic device may determine a current spatial orientation of the distance sensor relative to the ground surface. Further, the robotic device may (i) determine an adjusted position of the leveler to which the leveler is movable to cause the distance sensor to spatially reorient from the current spatial orientation to a target spatial orientation and (ii) cause the distance sensor to reorient to the target spatial orientation by moving the leveler to the adjusted position.
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