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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2019
Built Robotics Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Liang, Fremont, CA (US);
Evan West, San Mateo, CA (US);
Lucas Bruder, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gaurav Jitendra Kikani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pradeesh Suganthan, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Emerick, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ammar Kothari, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alan Argondizza, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sarah Thornton, Pacifica, CA (US);
Hee Gu Yea, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Pech, San Francisco, CA (US);
BUILT ROBOTICS INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous earth shaping vehicle that is capable of cooperatively filling earth into a fill location in a dig site. A first earth shaping vehicle configured with a hauling tool carrying a volume of earth navigates to the fill location. At the fill location, the first earth shaping vehicle navigates over a target tool path to fill earth from the hauling tool into the fill location. As the first earth shaping vehicle fills earth into the fill location, a measurement sensor coupled to the first earth shaping vehicle measures a compaction level of earth filled into the fill location. If the measured compaction level is determined to be below a threshold compaction level, the first earth shaping vehicle communicates a request for a second earth shaping vehicle configured with a compaction tool to compact earth in the fill location.