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Tilt and Distance Profiling Vehicle

  • US 20190242743A1
  • Filed: 09/05/2018
  • Published: 08/08/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for profiling a surface comprising:

  • a robotic vehicle having a drive system, at least one wheel, and one or more wheel encoders housed within each wheel for measuring movement of the robotic vehicle when driven by the drive system;

    one or more distance sensors coupled to the robotic vehicle to measure a slope of the surface;

    a control computing system comprising;

    a non-transitory computer readable storage medium,one or more processors in electronic communication with the one or more sensors, each wheel encoder, the robotic vehicle and the computer readable storage medium,one or more software modules comprising executable instructions stored in the storage medium, wherein the one or more software modules are executable by the processor and include;

    a movement module that configures the processor to receive movement data from the one or more wheel encoders to determine the position of the robotic vehicle,a sensor control module that configures the processor to instruct the one or more distance sensors to transmit one or more signals toward the surface at respective impulse times and to detect a time for the one or more signals to reflect off of the surface, and to receive movement data from the movement module, wherein the sensor control module determines a snapshot of the surface by calculating a slope of the surface using the time for the one or more signals to reflect and the movement data,wherein the robotic vehicle is driven by the drive system to traverse the surface while the control computing system continuously determines a plurality of snapshots of the surface as the position of the robotic vehicle changes to generate a profile of the surface.

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