Autonomous Control Of Powered Earth-Moving Vehicles To Control Calibration Operations For On-Vehicle Sensors

Abstract: systems and techniques are described for implementing autonomous control of powered earth-moving vehicles, including to automatically calibrate sensors on a powered earth-moving vehicle, such as to determine position and orientation of directional sensors on movable vehicle parts. for example, an on-vehicle sensor to be calibrated may include a lidar sensor located on the powered earth-moving vehicle, such as on a movable component part of the vehicle (e.g., a hydraulic arm, a tool attachment, etc.), and a global common frame of reference is determined for different datasets gathered at different times from such a sensor in order to combine or compare the datasets, such as by determining the sensor position in 3d space at a time of dataset gathering (e.g., relative to another reference point on the vehicle with a known location in the global common frame of reference, such as by using one or more determined transforms).

Inventor(s): Andrija Gajic

CPC Classification: E02F9/265 (DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat ))

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