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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Yuri Owechko, Newbury Park, CA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for obstacle detection and navigation of a vehicle using resolution-adaptive fusion includes performing, by a processor, a resolution-adaptive fusion of at least a first three-dimensional (3D) point cloud and a second 3D point cloud to generate a fused, denoised, and resolution-optimized 3D point cloud that represents an environment associated with the vehicle. The first 3D point cloud is generated by a first-type 3D scanning sensor, and the second 3D point cloud is generated by a second-type 3D scanning sensor. The second-type 3D scanning sensor includes a different resolution in each of a plurality of different measurement dimensions relative to the first-type 3D scanning sensor. The method also includes detecting obstacles and navigating the vehicle using the fused, denoised, and resolution-optimized 3D point cloud.