- Patent Title: Using sensor-based observations of agents in an environment to estimate the pose of an object in the environment and to estimate an uncertainty measure for the pose
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Application No.: US14874419Application Date: 2015-10-03
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Publication No.: US10209063B2Publication Date: 2019-02-19
- Inventor: Peter Elving Anderson-Sprecher
- Applicant: X Development LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Middleton Reutlinger
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; G01B21/00 ; B25J5/00 ; B25J9/16 ; G05D1/00 ; G01C21/20 ; G01C15/00

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for using sensor-based observations from multiple agents (e.g., mobile robots and/or fixed sensors) in an environment to estimate the pose of an object in the environment at a target time and to estimate an uncertainty measure for that pose. Various implementations generate a multigraph based on a group of observations from multiple agents, where the multigraph includes a reference frame node, object nodes, and a plurality edges connecting the nodes. In some implementations, a composite pose and composite uncertainty measure are generated for each of a plurality of simple paths along the edges of the multigraph that connect the reference frame node to a given object node—and a pose and uncertainty measure for an object identifier associated with the given object node is generated based on the composite poses and the composite uncertainty measures.
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