CONTAINER FULLNESS TRACKING METHODS AND SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:WO2023014492A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:PCT/US2022/037444

    申请日:2022-07-18

    发明人: BARISH, Justin F.

    IPC分类号: G01F17/00

    摘要: A method includes: generating a three-dimensional grid of cells representing respective portions of an interior of a container, each cell having a status indicator defining an occupancy state of the corresponding portion of the container interior; during loading of the container: maintaining, for each of the cells, a current status indicator, controlling a depth sensor to capture a sequence of point clouds, each point cloud depicting the container interior, in response to each point cloud capture in the sequence, generating updated status indicators for the cells, based on (i) the point cloud, and on (ii) the current status indicators, replacing the current status indicators with the updated status indicators, measuring a current fullness of the container based on the current status indicators, and transmitting the current fullness to a computing device for at least one of display of the current fullness, or alert generation associated with the current fullness.

    A METHOD FOR MEASURING AND ANALYSING PACKAGES FOR STORAGE

    公开(公告)号:WO2022106858A2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-27

    申请号:PCT/GB2021/053033

    申请日:2021-11-23

    申请人: BOTSANDUS LTD

    摘要: A method for measuring and analysing packages particularly for optimising storage in a warehouse or for packing for transporting. The method follows the steps of placing packages on a floor surface moving a robot to adjacent one of the packages. Lidar or similar is used to measuring distance data from the robot to the package at a multiple heights from at least 0.5m above the floor surface. The robot then follows a path around all or part of the packages gathering further distance data as it travels. The distance data is then used to determine or infer the shape of the sides of the package and from their estimate volumetric dimensions of the package. The volumetric dimensions are then used to optimise storage of the package with other packages.

    BLAST HOLE MEASUREMENT AND LOGGING
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2020028951A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-13

    申请号:PCT/AU2019/050830

    申请日:2019-08-08

    摘要: Provided is a blast hole measurement and logging apparatus (10) which generally comprises a housing (12) configured to operatively house a solid-state LiDAR sensor array (14) configured to transmit and steer pulses of light (18) into a blast hole (8) by shifting a phase of said pulses through the array to compile volumetric data of said sensor's field-of-view. Also included is a processor (22) configured to receive the volumetric data from the LiDAR sensor (14), said volumetric data indicative of an internal volume of the blast hole (8) which is useable in calculating an explosive charge according to a blast plan, the processor (22) configured to store and/or transmit the volumetric data.