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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2023
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Shawn Mathew, Savoy, IL (US);
John Paul Atkinson, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Norman Keith Lay, Baden, PA (US);
Lawrence Mianzo, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A technique is directed to methods and systems for assessing wear for a ground engaging tool (GET), such as a tooth on a bucket on a machine. A GET monitoring system can utilize convolutional neural networks for detecting individual instances of GETs in an image. The GET monitoring system can records the initial state of a GET on a bucket during a calibration process. After calibration, the GET monitoring system can estimate how much the GET has worn down, as length or surface area, since the GET was installed. In some embodiments, as a machine operates the motion of the machine can induce perspective distortion on the captured images of the GETs. The GET monitoring system can correct for perspective distortion, induced by bucket motion, by building a motion history map of the GET.