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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
May. 31, 2022
Built Robotics Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Xiao Liang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christian John Wawrzonek, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gaurav Jitendra Kikani, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Alan Emerick, Berkeley, CA (US);
Lucas Allen Bruder, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ammar Idris Kothari, San Francisco, CA (US);
BUILT ROBOTICS INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An excavation vehicle capable of autonomously actuating an excavation tool or navigating an excavation vehicle to perform an excavation routine within an excavation site is described herein. Sensors mounted to the excavation vehicle and the excavation tool produce signals representative of a position and orientation of the corresponding joint relative on the excavation vehicle relative to the excavation site, a position and orientation of the excavation vehicle relative to the excavation site, and one or more features of the excavation site based on the position of the excavation vehicle within the excavation site. A set of solenoids are configured to couple to corresponding hydraulic valves of the excavation tool to actuate the valve. A controller produces actuating signals to control the joints of the excavation tool to autonomously perform the excavation routine based on the signals produced by the sensors.