Patents by Inventor Lucas D. Cagle

Lucas D. Cagle 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).

  • Systems and methods for enhanced collision avoidance on logistics ground support equipment using multi-sensor detection fusion
    Patent number: 10761538
    Abstract: Enhanced systems and methods for collision avoidance of a high value asset with reflective beacons around it using multi-sensor data fusion on a mobile industrial vehicle. The system has a sensing processing system with a LiDAR and camera sensors, and a multi-processor module responsive to the different sensors. The sensing processing system fuses the different sensor data to locate the reflective beacons. A model predictive controller on the vehicle determines possible control solutions where each defines a threshold allowable speed for the vehicle at discrete moments based upon an estimated path to a breaching point projected from the reflective beacons, and then identifies an optimal one of the control solutions based upon a performance cost function and associated with an optimal threshold allowable speed. The system has a vehicle actuator configured to respond and alter vehicle movement to avoid a collision when the vehicle exceeds the optimal threshold allowable speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: John E. Ball, Reuben F. Burch, V, Lucas D. Cagle, Collin S. Davenport, James R. Gafford, Tyler J. Hannis, Andrew R. Hegman, Andrew M. LeClair, Yucheng Liu, Michael S. Mazzola, Howard G. McKinney, Tasmia Reza, Jian Shi, Pan Wei, Dennison W. Iacomini
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED COLLISION AVOIDANCE ON LOGISTICS GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT USING MULTI-SENSOR DETECTION FUSION
    Publication number: 20190265714
    Abstract: Enhanced systems and methods for collision avoidance of a high value asset with reflective beacons around it using multi-sensor data fusion on a mobile industrial vehicle. The system has a sensing processing system with a LiDAR and camera sensors, and a multi-processor module responsive to the different sensors. The sensing processing system fuses the different sensor data to locate the reflective beacons. A model predictive controller on the vehicle determines possible control solutions where each defines a threshold allowable speed for the vehicle at discrete moments based upon an estimated path to a breaching point projected from the reflective beacons, and then identifies an optimal one of the control solutions based upon a performance cost function and associated with an optimal threshold allowable speed. The system has a vehicle actuator configured to respond and alter vehicle movement to avoid a collision when the vehicle exceeds the optimal threshold allowable speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: John E. Ball, Reuben F. Burch, V, Lucas D. Cagle, Collin S. Davenport, James R. Gafford, Tyler J. Hannis, Andrew R. Hegman, Andrew M. LeClair, Yucheng Liu, Michael S. Mazzola, Howard G. McKinney, Tasmia Reza, Jian Shi, Pan Wei, Dennison W. Iacomini