Patents by Inventor Darryl Collins

Darryl Collins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230273624
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing task assignments for a fleet of haul trucks at a mine site. An assignment engine may: receive state data for a haul truck including haul weight data and second state data for the mine site that is indicative of a plurality of available tasks and associated task material weight data; assign a task to the haul truck by inputting the state data into a trained reinforcement-learning model, wherein: the model has been trained to learn an assignment policy that optimizes a reward function, such that the learned policy accounts for vehicle performance variance due to changing vehicle haul weight and/or road conditions; and cause the at least one haul truck to be operated according to the at least one task assignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Jacob WULF, Cameron T LANE, Andrew Seungyul YUN, Greg DAVIS, Thomas Frank DOHERTY, Darryl COLLINS
  • Publication number: 20170186250
    Abstract: A system for determining hang time for a machine operating at a worksite is provided. The system includes a sensing module associated with the machine. The sensing module is configured to track at least one parameter associated with the machine. The at least one parameter includes a machine heading, a machine speed, or a machine location. The system also includes a control module communicably coupled to the sensing module. The control module is configured to receive tracked information corresponding to the at least one parameter from the sensing module. The control module is also configured to analyze the tracked information corresponding to the at least one parameter, based on the received tracked information. The control module is further configured to determine the hang time for the machine, based on the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Darryl Collins, Cherise Osborn, Gregory M. Wood, Thomas F. Doherty, Kevin E. Gates, Gregory Davis
  • Publication number: 20060271582
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for generating and displaying a custom report based on raw data files received from work machines in a construction site. The method includes receiving raw data files and queries from a user. The query may be parsed into components. A heuristic may be applied to the parsed components to generate a filter. The filter may operate on the data in the raw data files to generate the custom report and the custom report may be displayed to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventor: Darryl Collins