Patents by Inventor Micha Helbig

Micha Helbig 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: 11945580
    Abstract: Cleaning vehicle sensors, wherein position data of a vehicle are received (1). An unmanned aircraft suitable for cleaning vehicle sensors flies to the vehicle on the basis of the received position data of the vehicle, positions itself, on the basis of location data of a sensor of the vehicle that is to be cleaned, near the vehicle in such a way that the sensor to be cleaned can be cleaned, and cleans the sensor. The vehicle can transmit the position data of the vehicle to a Service Station via a mobile data connection, wherein the Service Station causes the unmanned aircraft to fly to the vehicle and, after the end of the cleaning operation, to return to the Service Station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Schütz, Stephan Herold, Kristin Fondahl, Micha Helbig
  • Publication number: 20210263526
    Abstract: A method for assisting maneuver planning for a transportation vehicle driving by automation or for a robot; wherein a state space of an environment of the transportation vehicle or the robot is discretely described by a Markov decision process; wherein optimal action values for discretized actions are determined by dynamic programming, based on discrete states in the state space; wherein a mapping with states in the state space as input values, and with action values for actions in the state space as output values, is learned by a reinforcement learning method; wherein a reinforcement learning agent is initialized based on the optimal action values determined by the dynamic programming; and wherein the learned mapping is provided for maneuver planning. Also disclosed is a device for assisting maneuver planning for a transportation vehicle driving by automation or for a robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Micha HELBIG, Jens HOEDT, Firas AL-HAFEZ
  • Publication number: 20210053678
    Abstract: Cleaning vehicle sensors, wherein position data of a vehicle are received (1). An unmanned aircraft suitable for cleaning vehicle sensors flies to the vehicle on the basis of the received position data of the vehicle, positions itself, on the basis of location data of a sensor of the vehicle that is to be cleaned, near the vehicle in such a way that the sensor to be cleaned can be cleaned, and cleans the sensor. The vehicle can transmit the position data of the vehicle to a Service Station via a mobile data connection, wherein the Service Station causes the unmanned aircraft to fly to the vehicle and, after the end of the cleaning operation, to return to the Service Station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Schütz, Stephan Herold, Kristin Fondahl, Micha Helbig