公开(公告)号：US20230266473A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-24

申请号：US17768320

申请日：2020-10-21

Applicant: STARSHIP TECHNOLOGIES OÜ

Inventor： Ardi LOOT ,  Risto REINPÕLD ,  Sergii KHARAGORGIIEV ,  Tommi TYKKÄLÄ

IPC: G01S17/894 ,  G01S17/931 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G01S17/86

CPC classification number: G01S17/894 ,  G01S17/86 ,  G01S17/931 ,  G05D1/0242 ,  G05D1/0248

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for operating a mobile robot. Firstly, a mobile robot can be equipped with at least one time-of-flight (ToF) sensor and the mobile robot can travel in an outdoor setting. At least one ToF sensor image related to the outdoor setting can be captured via the at least one ToF sensor. A data processing unit can process the at least one ToF sensor image to identify at least one cluster of pixels on the at least one ToF sensor image based on at least one pixel-clustering parameter. It can be determined whether at least one cluster of pixels corresponds to a hazardous object in the outdoor setting.