Patents Assigned to Star Institute of Intelligent Systems
  • Patent number: 11953903
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a neural network-based method for calibration and localization of an indoor inspection robot. The method includes the following steps: presetting positions for N label signal sources capable of transmitting radio frequency (RF) signals; computing an actual path of the robot according to numbers of signal labels received at different moments; computing positional information moved by the robot at a tth moment, and computing a predicted path at the tth moment according to the positional information; establishing an odometry error model with the neural network and training the odometry error model; and inputting the predicted path at the tth moment to a well-trained odometry error model to obtain an optimized predicted path. The present disclosure maximizes the localization accuracy for the indoor robot by minimizing the error of the odometer with the odometry calibration method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Chongqing University, Star Institute of Intelligent Systems, DB (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., LTD
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Jie Zhang, Junfeng Lai, Huan Liu, Ziqiang Jiang, Li Huang
  • Patent number: 11804074
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for recognizing facial expressions based on adversarial elimination. First, a facial expression recognition network is built based on a deep convolutional neural network. On a natural facial expression data set, the facial expression recognition network is trained through a loss function to make facial expression features easier to distinguish. Then some key features of input images are actively eliminated by using an improved confrontation elimination method to generate a new data set to train new networks with different weight distributions and feature extraction capabilities, forcing the network to perform expression classification discrimination based on more features, which reduces the influence of interference factors such as occlusion on the network recognition accuracy rate, and improving the robustness of the facial expression recognition network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: Chongqing University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Dibi (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Star Institute of Intelligent Systems
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Feng Yang, Rui Li, Yiwen Zhang, Haoyuan Zhong, Jian Zhang, Shengtao Pan, Siyu Li, Zhengtao Yu
  • Patent number: 11747826
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for route optimization based on dynamic window and redundant node filtering, comprising using an existing raster map data set to determine the coordinate information of a starting position and a destination position of movement, and to mark a destination node and an obstacle node in the raster map; using A* algorithm to plan a global route; globally optimizing the global route planned by A* algorithm, and filtering redundant nodes out; combining a dynamic window algorithm to perform the local optimization section by section on the optimized global route so as to obtain a final global route. According to the present disclosure, the combination of algorithms reduces a single movement duration of a mobile robot and improves the smoothness of the movement route curve. At the same time, the problems of the robot occurring on the route during the static driving are alleviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: CHONGQING UNIVERSITY, STAR INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, DIBI (CHONGQING) INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Congyi Zhang, Lihui Tan, Junfeng Lai, Saiyu Wang, Yankai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11585843
    Abstract: A detection circuit for open, close and suspension states of a high and low level effective switch in a vehicle. The circuit includes an optocoupler circuit module, a low-level active path module, a high-level active path module, a filtering and debouncing module, a transient suppression module, and a wiring terminal. The optocoupler circuit module is connected to the low-level active path module, the high-level active path module and the low-level active path module are connected in parallel to the filtering and debouncing module, and the filtering and debouncing module is connected to the transient suppression module, and then connected to the external high-level active switch or low-level active switch through the wiring terminal. Whether it is a high-level active switch or a low-level active switch, the detection circuit can distinguish whether the switch is in the closed or suspended state, and the strong and weak voltages are isolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: CHONGQING UNIVERSITY, STAR INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, DB (CHONGQING) INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., Chongqing Yingdi Industry (Group) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Shuaicheng Hou, Jiawei Chen, Mi Fang
  • Publication number: 20220403612
    Abstract: Disclosed is a snow shoveling and snow discharging assembly of a snow sweeping robot. The snow shoveling and snow discharging assembly comprises a snow stirring structure, a snow feeding structure and a snow raising structure. Stirring cutters in the snow stirring mechanism are driven by a stirring cutter shaft to stir bottom area snow into a snow feeding pipe of the snow feeding structure, an air blower in the snow feeding structure blows accumulated snow into a snow raising pipe of the snow raising structure through a connecting pipe, the snow raising pipe can be driven by a steering motor to rotate by a certain angle to control the snow raising direction, and a second electric push rod acts to control pitching of the guide part, so that the height of snow during snow raising is controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicants: Chongqing University, Star Institute of Intelligent Systems, Dibi (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Hong Long, Junfeng Lai, Fang Hu, Ke'er Chen
  • Publication number: 20220351043
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an adaptive high-precision compression method and system based on a convolutional neural network model, and belongs to the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and image processing. According to the method of the present disclosure, coarse-grained pruning is performed on a neural network model by using a differential evolution algorithm first, and the coarse-grained space is quickly searched through an entropy importance criterion and an objective function with good guidance to obtain a near-optimal neural network structure. Then fine-grained search space is built on the basis of an optimal individual obtained from the coarse-grained search, and fine-grained pruning is performed on the neural network model by a differential evolution algorithm to obtain a network model with an optimal structure. Finally, the performance of the optimal model is restored by using a multi-teacher multi-step knowledge distillation network to reach the precision of an original model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: Chongqing University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Dibi (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Star Institute of Intelligent Systems
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Feng Yang, Rui Li, Shengtao Pan, Siyu Li, Yiwen Zhang, Jian Zhang, Zhengtao Yu, Shichun Wang
  • Publication number: 20220327308
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for recognizing facial expressions based on adversarial elimination. First, a facial expression recognition network is built based on a deep convolutional neural network. On a natural facial expression data set, the facial expression recognition network is trained through a loss function to make facial expression features easier to distinguish. Then some key features of input images are actively eliminated by using an improved confrontation elimination method to generate a new data set to train new networks with different weight distributions and feature extraction capabilities, forcing the network to perform expression classification discrimination based on more features, which reduces the influence of interference factors such as occlusion on the network recognition accuracy rate, and improving the robustness of the facial expression recognition network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicants: Chongqing University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Dibi (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Star Institute of Intelligent Systems
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Feng Yang, Rui Li, Yiwen Zhang, Haoyuan Zhong, Jian Zhang, Shengtao Pan, Siyu Li, Zhengtao Yu
  • Publication number: 20220196459
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a real-time vehicle overload detection method based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). The present disclosure detects a road driving vehicle in real time with a CNN method and a you only look once (YOLO)-V3 detection algorithm, detects the number of wheels to obtain the number of axles, detects a relative wheelbase, compares the number of axles and the relative wheelbase with a national vehicle load standard to obtain a maximum load of the vehicle, and compares the maximum load with an actual load measured by a piezoelectric sensor under the vehicle, thereby implementing real-time vehicle overload detection. The present disclosure has desirable real-time detection, can implement no-parking vehicle overload detection on the road, and avoids potential traffic congestions and road traffic accidents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: Dibi (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Star Institute of Intelligent Systems
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Yujuan Wang, Gonglin Lu, Shilei Tan, Yating Yang, Chunxu Ren, Mingyang Liu
  • Patent number: 11354856
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle navigation map construction system based on three-dimensional image reconstruction technology comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle, a data acquiring component and a three-dimensional navigation map construction system, wherein the three-dimensional navigation map construction system comprises an image set input system, a feature point extraction system, a sparse three-dimensional point cloud reconstruction system, a dense three-dimensional point cloud reconstruction system, a point cloud model optimization system and a three-dimensional navigation map reconstruction system. A scene image set is input into the three-dimensional navigation map construction system, feature point detection is carried out on all images, a sparse point cloud model of the scene and a dense point cloud model of the scene are reconstructed, the model is optimized by removing a miscellaneous point and reconstructing the surface, and a three-dimensional navigation map of the scene is reconstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Star Institute of Intelligent Systems
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Xiao Cao