Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Robotic charger alignment
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Application No.: US15692583Application Date: 2017-08-31
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Publication No.: US10427304B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Kevin Walter Leary
- Applicant: Powerhydrant LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Westwood
- Assignee: POWERHYDRANT LLC
- Current Assignee: POWERHYDRANT LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Westwood
- Agency: Atesa Legal PLLC
- Main IPC: B60L53/36
- IPC: B60L53/36 ; B25J9/16 ; G06K9/00 ; B25J9/02 ; G01B11/25 ; B60L53/37 ; B60L53/65 ; B60L53/30 ; G06K9/32

Abstract:
A system and method for robotic charger alignment comprises receiving at a robotic charger, a device identification of a receiving device; retrieving a reference object (RO) of the receiving device from a database indexed by the device identification; imaging the receiving device to form at least two images having an angle therebetween with respect to a common location on the receiving device; calculating, by an alignment processing device, a stereo disparity depth map from the at least two images; acquiring an acquired point cloud (APC) from the stereo disparity depth map; generating, by the alignment processing device, rotation and translation data by aligning the RO to the APC; inferring an inlet port location from the RO; and moving the robotic charger proximal to the inlet port using the RO, Rot and T data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180056801A1 Robotic Charger Alignment Public/Granted day:2018-03-01
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