Patents by Inventor Guowei WAN

Guowei WAN 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: 10613227
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for positioning a vehicle. An implementation of the method comprises: obtaining laser point cloud data of a laser point cloud collected by a laser radar on a vehicle, and obtaining an initial pose of a center point of the laser radar; calculating a matching probability between projection data corresponding to each sampling pose and map data of a reflected value map respectively; and calculating an optimal pose based on the matching probability between the projection data corresponding to the each sampling pose and the map data of the reflected value map, and determining a position of the vehicle based on the optimal pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Guowei Wan, Hao Wang, Shiyu Song, Baoqiang Xu
  • Publication number: 20200064137
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for positioning an autonomous vehicle. The method includes: matching a current point cloud projected image of a first resolution with a map of the first resolution to generate a first histogram filter based on the matching result; determining at least two first response areas in the first histogram filter based on a probability value of an element in the first histogram filter; generating a second histogram filter based on a result of matching a current point cloud projected image of a second resolution with a map of the second resolution and the at least two first response areas, the first resolution being less than the second resolution; and calculating a weighted average of probability values of target elements in the second histogram filter to determine a positioning result of the autonomous vehicle in the map of the second resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hao LI, Guowei WAN, Yao ZHOU, Shiyu SONG, Fangfang DONG
  • Publication number: 20190146062
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a laser point cloud positioning method and system. The method comprises: converting laser point cloud reflection value data and height value data matched with a current location of an autonomous vehicle into laser point cloud projection data in a ground plane; assigning a weight for a reflection value matching probability and a height value matching probability of the laser point cloud projection data and a laser point cloud two-dimensional grid map, and determining a matching probability of the laser point cloud projection data and the laser point cloud two-dimensional grid map; determining a location of the autonomous vehicle in the laser point cloud two-dimensional grid map based on a matching probability of the laser point cloud projection data and the laser point cloud two-dimensional grid map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guowei WAN, Hao Li, Yao Zhou, Shiyu Song, Fangfang Dong
  • Publication number: 20180306922
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for positioning a vehicle. An implementation of the method comprises: obtaining laser point cloud data of a laser point cloud collected by a laser radar on a vehicle, and obtaining an initial pose of a center point of the laser radar; calculating a matching probability between projection data corresponding to each sampling pose and map data of a reflected value map respectively; and calculating an optimal pose based on the matching probability between the projection data corresponding to the each sampling pose and the map data of the reflected value map, and determining a position of the vehicle based on the optimal pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Guowei WAN, Hao Wang, Shiyu Song, Baoqiang Xu
  • Publication number: 20180299273
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for positioning a vehicle. In some embodiments, the method comprises: acquiring an a priori position of a to-be-positioned vehicle at a current positioning moment determined by performing a strapdown calculation between a previous positioning moment and the current positioning moment; determining a map area for searching in a laser point cloud reflected value map; matching a reflected value characteristic of a projection area generated by projecting a real-time laser point cloud, to obtain a map matching position according to a matching result; positioning, using the a priori position in combination with observation data of a vehicle-mounted global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver of the vehicle, to obtain a satellite positioning position; and fusing the a priori position, the map matching position and the satellite positioning position to generate a positioning result of positioning the vehicle at the current moment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Renlan CAI, Xiaolong YANG, Guowei WAN, Weixin LU, Shiyu SONG, Baoqiang XU