公开(公告)号：US20240371178A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-07

申请号：US18311612

申请日：2023-05-03

Applicant: TORC Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： John HUTCHINSON ,  Indrajeet Kumar MISHRA ,  Rasika KANGUTKAR ,  Scott SCHLACTER

IPC: G06V20/58 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G08G1/0967

Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for determining states of traffic lights and managing behavior of an automated vehicle approaching an intersection. An autonomy system applies an object recognition engine trained to recognize a traffic light, and identify and confirm the state of the traffic light. A first neural network trained for object detection recognizes a traffic light and defines a bounding box around the recognized traffic light. A second neural network receives the region of the image bounded by the box as constituting the traffic light and “reads” the light. The automated vehicle uses other information, such as states of pedestrian traffic lights, detection of objects in and near the intersection, and glare on one or more cameras, to supplement its determination of the right of way through the intersection. The autonomy system generates a driving instruction based on the traffic light combined.

公开(公告)号：US20240278722A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-22

申请号：US18129275

申请日：2023-03-31

Applicant: TORC Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： John HUTCHINSON

IPC: B60R1/12 ,  B60R1/076 ,  B60W60/00 ,  G01P5/165

CPC classification number: B60R1/12 ,  B60R1/076 ,  B60W60/001 ,  G01P5/165 ,  B60R2001/1223 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W2555/00

Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an automated vehicle having a pitot tube mounted to a side-view mirror of the automated vehicle. The pitot gathers samples of wind speed information for calculating three-dimensional wind measurements using the information gathered by the pitot tube. The pitot tube is installed at an area that offers the pitot tube access to outside “clean air,” undisturbed by the vehicle's movement. A controller and/or driving software ingest the three-dimensional wind measurements and generate driving tasks of the automated vehicle based upon the three-dimensional wind measurements.

公开(公告)号：US20240331396A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-03

申请号：US18192481

申请日：2023-03-29

Applicant: TORC Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： John HUTCHINSON

IPC: G06V20/56 ,  G06V10/75

CPC classification number: G06V20/56 ,  G06V10/751

Abstract: Embodiments described herein systems and methods for detecting fluid leaks for an automated vehicle using image data. The automated vehicle includes a camera at or near the front of the chassis and a camera at or near the rear of the chassis. Each camera captures images of a road surface beneath vehicle as the vehicle passes a road surface. The cameras store images of the road surface into a log with timestamp or location stamp, by mapping the image to a location in the world. An algorithm de-warps the images to correct for lensing. Using the locations data, computer vision, and/or object recognition, a processor extracts features, overlays the images, and compares the features to identify differences between the images indicating dripping fluid. Multi-image comparisons avoid false positives. The processor may recognize that image features indicate fluid leaks based on characteristics of spots (e.g., color, location, size) or other features.

公开(公告)号：US20240280445A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-22

申请号：US18193939

申请日：2023-03-31

Applicant: TORC Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： John HUTCHINSON

IPC: G01N1/24 ,  G01N33/00

CPC classification number: G01N1/24 ,  G01N33/0006 ,  G07C5/0808

Abstract: Embodiments described herein include a system of fluid-delivery hardware, including tubes, valves, and pumps that deliver samples of fluid gathered from various exposed locations of a vehicle to commonly located gas analysis sensors. A durable sensor housing contains the gas sensors and is situated in a confined location of the vehicle, which is environmentally isolated and physically partitioned from the sample locations exposed to potentially deleterious environments. For a given sample location, a tube and valves gather and channel fluid samples from the sample location towards the sensor housing at the confined location. A pump forces air outwards to purge debris in the tube or tube inlet, and draws air inward through the tube towards the sensor housing for delivery to the sensors.

公开(公告)号：US20250018983A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-16

申请号：US18221836

申请日：2023-07-13

Applicant: TORC Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： John HUTCHINSON ,  Joshua WISE

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60W50/06

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle can include a perception sensor and one or more processors. The processors can be configured to automatically control the autonomous vehicle to an energy supply station to resupply the autonomous vehicle; detect an arrival of the autonomous vehicle at the energy supply station; detect a calibration target; collect data from the perception sensor corresponding with the calibration target; and calibrate the perception sensor based on the collected data.

公开(公告)号：US20240363008A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18307732

申请日：2023-04-26

Applicant: TORC Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： John HUTCHINSON ,  Nicholas GIGLIOTTI ,  Henry FORSYTH

IPC: G08G1/16 ,  B60T7/22 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W50/14

CPC classification number: G08G1/166 ,  B60T7/22 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W50/14 ,  B60W2050/146

Abstract: Embodiments described herein include hardware and software components for hosting a multi-vehicle tool that configures and tracks test scenarios of an ego vehicle. Sensors mounted to the ego other traffic vehicles generate sensor data, including geolocation data, which the vehicles transmit to a system hosting the multi-vehicle tool. The multi-vehicle tool uses the sensor inputs to generate a user interface allowing an administrator to monitor the vehicles during testing. The multi-vehicle tool detects when the sensor data satisfies a configurable bail threshold and transmits a notification to an administrator to abort the test or transmits instructions to the ego vehicle to abort the test.