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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2022
Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Henderson, NV (US);
Chen Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Sebastian Schweigert, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Henderson, NV (US);
Chen Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Sebastian Schweigert, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
AI Incorporated, Toronto, CA;
Abstract
Provided is a robot, including: a chassis; a set of wheels coupled to the chassis; at least one motor for driving the set of wheels; at least one motor controller; a range finding system coupled to the robot; a plurality of sensors; a processor; and a tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: obtaining, with the processor, distances to obstacles measured by the range finding system as the robot moves relative to the obstacles; monitoring, with the processor, the distance measurements; identifying, with the processor, outlier distance measurements in otherwise steadily fitting distance measurements; determining, with the processor, a depth of an obstacle based on the distance measurements; and determining, with the processor, a position of the obstacle based on the distance measurements.