Patents by Inventor Edward Stephen Walker

Edward Stephen Walker 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).

  • Patent number: 10914049
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Built Robotics Inc.
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Linus Page Chou, Edward Stephen Walker, Jr., Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus McMann Ready-Campbell
  • Publication number: 20210032838
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: NOAH AUSTEN READY-CAMPBELL, ANDREW XIAO LIANG, LINUS PAGE CHOU, EDWARD STEPHEN WALKER, Jr., CHRISTIAN JOHN WAWRZONEK, CYRUS MCMANN READY-CAMPBELL
  • Publication number: 20210032839
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: NOAH AUSTEN READY-CAMPBELL, ANDREW XIAO LIANG, LINUS PAGE CHOU, EDWARD STEPHEN WALKER, JR., CHRISTIAN JOHN WAWRZONEK, CYRUS MCMANN READY-CAMPBELL
  • Publication number: 20200362531
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: NOAH AUSTEN READY-CAMPBELL, ANDREW XIAO LIANG, LINUS PAGE CHOU, EDWARD STEPHEN WALKER, JR., CHRISTIAN JOHN WAWRZONEK, CYRUS MCMANN READY-CAMPBELL
  • Patent number: 10801177
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BUILT ROBOTICS INC.
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Linus Page Chou, Edward Stephen Walker, Jr., Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus McMann Ready-Campbell
  • Publication number: 20200240105
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Linus Page Chou, Edward Stephen Walker, Jr., Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus McMann Ready-Campbell
  • Publication number: 20200202196
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for searching an autonomous vehicle sensor data repository. One of the methods includes maintaining a collection of sensor samples and, for each sensor sample, an embedding of the sensor sample; receiving a request specifying a query sensor sample, wherein the query sensor sample characterizes a query environment region; and identifying, from the collection of sensor samples, a plurality of relevant sensor samples that characterize similar environment regions to the query environment region, comprising: processing the query sensor sample through the embedding neural network to generate a query embedding; and identifying, from sensor samples in a subset of the sensor samples in the collection, a plurality of sensor samples that have embeddings that are closest to the query embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Zijian Guo, Nichola Abdo, Junhua Mao, Congcong Li, Edward Stephen Walker, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200202209
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a classifier to detect open vehicle doors. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of initial training examples, each initial training example comprising (i) a sensor sample from a collection of sensor samples and (ii) data classifying the sensor sample as characterizing a vehicle that has an open door; generating a plurality of additional training examples, comprising, for each initial training example: identifying, from the collection of sensor samples, one or more additional sensor samples that were captured less than a threshold amount of time before the sensor sample in the initial training example was captured; and training the machine learning classifier on first training data that includes the initial training examples and the additional training examples to generate updated weights for the machine learning classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Junhua Mao, Lo Po Tsui, Congcong Li, Edward Stephen Walker, JR.
  • Patent number: 10662613
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BUILT ROBOTICS INC.
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Linus Page Chou, Edward Stephen Walker, Jr., Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus McMann Ready-Campbell
  • Publication number: 20200063396
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: NOAH AUSTEN READY-CAMPBELL, ANDREW XIAO LIANG, LINUS PAGE CHOU, EDWARD STEPHEN WALKER, JR., CHRISTIAN JOHN WAWRZONEK, CYRUS MCMANN READY-CAMPBELL
  • Publication number: 20200063395
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: NOAH AUSTEN READY-CAMPBELL, ANDREW XIAO LIANG, LINUS PAGE CHOU, EDWARD STEPHEN WALKER, JR., CHRISTIAN JOHN WAWRZONEK, CYRUS MCMANN READY-CAMPBELL
  • Publication number: 20180245308
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Linus Page Chou, Edward Stephen Walker, Jr., Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus McMann Ready-Campbell
  • Publication number: 20180245317
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Linus Page Chou, Edward Stephen Walker, JR., Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus McMann Ready-Campbell
  • Publication number: 20180210454
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Linus Page Chou, Edward Stephen Walker, JR., Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus McMann Ready-Campbell