Capture of ground truthed labels of plant traits method and system

    公开(公告)号:US10820531B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-03

    申请号:US16681520

    申请日:2019-11-12

    Abstract: In embodiments, acquiring sensor data associated with a plant growing in a field, and analyzing the sensor data to extract, while in the field, one or more phenotypic traits associated with the plant from the sensor data. Indexing, while in the field, the one or more phenotypic traits to one or both of an identifier of the plant or a virtual representation of a part of the plant, and determining one or more plant insights based on the one or more phenotypic traits, wherein the one or more plant insights includes information about one or more of a health, a yield, a planting, a growth, a harvest, a management, a performance, and a state of the plant. One or more of the health, yield, planting, growth, harvest, management, performance, and the state of the plant are included in a plant insights report that is generated.

    Switchable magnetic battery docking
    262.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10807492B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-20

    申请号:US15130880

    申请日:2016-04-15

    Abstract: One or more switchable magnetic systems is located near a battery attachment surface of an electric vehicle, where the battery attachment surface is configured to accept and electronically connect to a battery pack. The electric vehicle also includes a control system that operates the one or more switchable magnetic system switching from a first to a second state. In the first state the magnetic field of the switchable magnetic system secures the battery pack to the battery attachment surface so that the battery pack is electronically coupled to an electric motor of the electric vehicle. When the control system receives a message corresponding to removal of the battery pack, the control system switches the switchable magnetic system to the second state such that the battery pack is removable from the battery attachment surface.

    NMR apparatus with permanent magnets, magnetic field sensors, and magnetic coils

    公开(公告)号:US10782371B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US16120144

    申请日:2018-08-31

    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus includes a pair of permanent magnets spaced apart from each other and defining a sample space, the permanent magnets providing a magnetic field in the sample space, an array of magnetic field sensors arranged relative to the sample space to provide, during operation, information about a homogeneity of the magnetic field, an array of magnetic coils arranged relative to the sample space so that each magnetic coil, during operation, generates a magnetic field that changes the magnetic field in the sample space, and an electronic controller programmed to receive information about the magnetic field from the array of magnetic field sensors and to variably energize the magnetic coils in the array of magnetic coils so that the magnetic fields generated by the array of magnetic coils reduces inhomogeneities of the magnetic field.

    Localization with negative mapping
    264.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10761541B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-01

    申请号:US15494159

    申请日:2017-04-21

    Inventor: Dirk Holz

    Abstract: Example embodiments include determining a map of an environment of a robotic vehicle. The map includes locations of a plurality of mapped landmarks within the environment and a false detection source region within the environment. The embodiments further include detecting a plurality of candidate landmarks, and determining which of the detected candidate landmarks correspond to one of the plurality of mapped landmarks and which correspond to false detections. The embodiments additionally include estimating a pose of the robotic vehicle within the environment. The embodiments further include determining which of the detected candidate landmarks determined to correspond to false detections fall within the false detection source region. The embodiments still further include determining a confidence level of the pose estimate based on which of the detected candidate landmarks determined to correspond to false detections fall within the false detection source region.

    Photovoltaic conversion of light
    265.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10720876B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-21

    申请号:US16006553

    申请日:2018-06-12

    Abstract: A photovoltaic power source includes a receptacle to receive a photofuel including a liquid, and one or more photovoltaic cells positioned within the receptacle to receive light emitted from the photofuel when the photofuel is in the receptacle. The photovoltaic power source also includes power circuitry coupled to the one or more photovoltaic cells to receive a photocurrent generated by the one or more photovoltaic cells when the one or more photovoltaic cells receive the light emitted from the photofuel. In response to the photocurrent, the power circuitry is coupled to output electricity.

    Method for tracking a signal source based on polarization modulation

    公开(公告)号:US10700787B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-30

    申请号:US16570425

    申请日:2019-09-13

    Inventor: Klaus Ulander

    Abstract: The disclosure provides for a method and a system for tracking an optical communication beam based on polarization modulation of the optical communication beam. The method includes polarizing, at a first communication device, an optical communication beam in a polarization pattern. The optical communication beam carries an optical signal. The polarization pattern encodes information by varying between a first polarization direction and at least one second polarization direction. The polarized optical communication beam is then transmitted from the first communication device to a second communication device. At the second communication device, the polarized optical communication beam is processed to extract the encoded information, and the encoded information is used at the second communication device to track the optical communication beam.

    Allocating resources for a machine learning model

    公开(公告)号:US10685295B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US15859077

    申请日:2017-12-29

    Abstract: A method for allocating resources for a machine learning model is disclosed. A machine learning model to be executed on a special purpose machine learning model processor is received. A computational data graph is generated from the machine learning model. The computational dataflow graph represents the machine learning model which includes nodes, connector directed edges, and parameter directed edges. The operations of the computational dataflow graph is scheduled and then compiled using a deterministic instruction set architecture that specifies functionality of a special purpose machine learning model processor. An amount of resources required to execute the computational dataflow graph is determined. Resources are allocated based on the determined amounts of resources required to execute the machine learning model represented by the computational dataflow graph.

    Sensorized robotic gripping device
    268.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10682774B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US15839045

    申请日:2017-12-12

    Abstract: A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.

    Visually indicating vehicle caution regions

    公开(公告)号:US10676022B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-09

    申请号:US15854850

    申请日:2017-12-27

    Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle, a light projector connected to the vehicle, and a control system. The control system is configured to determine a planned operating region for the vehicle within an environment. The control system is also configured to determine that the planned operating region is within a threshold distance of an object within the environment and, in response, determine a caution region to illuminate with the light projector near the object. The control system is further configured to cause the light projector to project an indication of the caution region near the object. The projected indication remains fixed in relation to the object as the vehicle moves toward the planned operating region.

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