Patents by Inventor Jörg Röwekämper

Jörg Röwekämper 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: 20240012413
    Abstract: A method using a redundant safety system and a redundant safety system for a mobile machine having at least one controller, having a first localization system for localizing a position of at least one safe point of interest, having a detection system for detecting a feature of the safe point of interest, wherein a position of the safe point of interest can be detected by means of the localization system and a feature of the safe point of interest can be detected by means of the detection system, with a safe zone of interest associated with the safe point of interest being able to be activated by means of the controller on detection of the position of the safe point of interest and of the feature of the safe point of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Mathias AMS, Stefan SCHWÖRER, Eduard MOSGALEWSKY, Jörg RÖWEKÄMPER, Santosh TAVANSHI
  • Patent number: 10444332
    Abstract: A method and a system for calibrating a network of multiple range finders are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes performing a measurement with the range finders during a movement of an object through an area covered by the network, identifying, for each range finder, data sets of the measurement associated with the moving object, based on a static analysis of the respective range finder, determining, for each pair of overlapping range finders, an estimated relative transformation between respective poses of the pair, based on the identified data sets of the pair, determining an initial maximum likelihood configuration of poses of all of the range finders based on the estimated relative transformations of each pair and iteratively determining sets of point correspondences of the identified data sets and if a distance of the points in the pair is below a threshold, the threshold being redefined decreasingly for each iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURG
    Inventors: Jörg Röwekämper, Michael Ruhnke, Bastian Steder, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Wolfram Burgard
  • Publication number: 20180067199
    Abstract: A method and a system for calibrating a network of multiple range finders are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes performing a measurement with the range finders during a movement of an object through an area covered by the network, identifying, for each range finder, data sets of the measurement associated with the moving object, based on a static analysis of the respective range finder, determining, for each pair of overlapping range finders, an estimated relative transformation between respective poses of the pair, based on the identified data sets of the pair, determining an initial maximum likelihood configuration of poses of all of the range finders based on the estimated relative transformations of each pair and iteratively determining sets of point correspondences of the identified data sets and if a distance of the points in the pair is below a threshold, the threshold being redefined decreasingly for each iteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Jörg Röwekämper, Michael Ruhnke, Bastian Steder, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Wolfram Burgard