Intelligent ladar system with low latency motion planning updates

LC Dussan, A Steinhardt, JD Benscoter… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are disclosed for vehicle motion planning where a sensor,
such as a ladar system, is used to detect threatening or anomalous conditions within the …

Flash LADAR collision avoidance system

P Gilliland, R Stettner, L Heughebaert… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
A vehicular collision avoidance system comprising a system controller, pulsed laser
transmitter, a number of independent ladar sensor units, a cabling infrastructure, internal …

All weather autonomously driven vehicles

CJ Jacobus, D Haanpaa - US Patent 9,989,967, 2018 - Google Patents
Autonomously driven vehicles operate in rain, snow and other adverse weather conditions.
An on-board vehicle sensor has a beam with a diameter that is only intermittently blocked by …

LADAR sensor for a dense environment

P Gilliland, H Bailey, R Stettner, N Kataria - US Patent 9,575,184, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A multi-ladar sensor system is proposed for operating in dense
environments where many ladar sensors are transmit ting and receiving burst mode light in …

System and method for synthetically filling ladar frames based on prior ladar return data

LC Dussan, A Steinhardt, F Presutti… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are disclosed where a ladar system synthetically fills a ladar
frame. A ladar transmitter can employ compressive sensing to interrogate a subset of range …

Ladar system with intelligent selection of shot list frames based on field of view data

LC Dussan, A Steinhardt, JD Benscoter… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
A ladar transmitter that transmits ladar pulses toward a plurality of range points in a field of
view can be controlled to target range points based on any of a plurality of defined shot list …

Systems and methods for modular LADAR scanning

RD Moss, SB Singer, AC Standridge, P Yuan… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
A laser distance and ranging (LADAR) array is provided. The LADAR array includes a
plurality of LADAR modules, each LADAR module configured to scan a laser beam through …

Object detection using radar and machine learning

M Rohani, S Zhang, H Chen - US Patent 10,353,053, 2019 - Google Patents
A method and system for using one or more radar systems for object detection based on
machine learning in an environment is disclosed. A scanning radar or combination of radars …

Sensor fusion

R Sithiravel, D Laporte, KJ Carey - US Patent App. 16/057,155, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A computing system can determine a vehicle action based on determining
a free space map based on combining video sensor data and radar sensor data. The …

Dynamic LIDAR sensor controller

S Boehmke - US Patent 10,338,225, 2019 - Google Patents
A laser imaging, detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for an autonomous vehicle (AV)
includes a LIDAR sensor comprising a plurality of configurable parameters, and a sensor …