Patents by Inventor Robert A. Kinoshita
Robert A. Kinoshita 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).
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Patent number: 9213934Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses provide robotic explosive hazard detection. A robot intelligence kernel (RIK) includes a dynamic autonomy structure with two or more autonomy levels between operator intervention and robot initiative A mine sensor and processing module (ESPM) operating separately from the RIK perceives environmental variables indicative of a mine using subsurface perceptors. The ESPM processes mine information to determine a likelihood of a presence of a mine. A robot can autonomously modify behavior responsive to an indication of a detected mine. The behavior is modified between detection of mines, detailed scanning and characterization of the mine, developing mine indication parameters, and resuming detection. Real time messages are passed between the RIK and the ESPM. A combination of ESPM bound messages and RIK bound messages cause the robot platform to switch between modes including a calibration mode, the mine detection mode, and the mine characterization mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLCInventors: Roelof J. Versteeg, Douglas A. Few, Robert A. Kinoshita, Douglas Johnson, Ondrej Linda
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Publication number: 20150355639Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses provide robotic explosive hazard detection. A robot intelligence kernel (RIK) includes a dynamic autonomy structure with two or more autonomy levels between operator intervention and robot initiative A mine sensor and processing module (ESPM) operating separately from the RIK perceives environmental variables indicative of a mine using subsurface perceptors. The ESPM processes mine information to determine a likelihood of a presence of a mine. A robot can autonomously modify behavior responsive to an indication of a detected mine. The behavior is modified between detection of mines, detailed scanning and characterization of the mine, developing mine indication parameters, and resuming detection. Real time messages are passed between the RIK and the ESPM. A combination of ESPM bound messages and RIK bound messages cause the robot platform to switch between modes including a calibration mode, the mine detection mode, and the mine characterization mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLCInventors: Roelof J. Versteeg, Douglas A. Few, Robert A. Kinoshita, Douglas Johnson, Ondrej Linda
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Patent number: 8965578Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses provide robotic explosive hazard detection. A robot intelligence kernel (RIK) includes a dynamic autonomy structure with two or more autonomy levels between operator intervention and robot initiative A mine sensor and processing module (ESPM) operating separately from the RIK perceives environmental variables indicative of a mine using subsurface perceptors. The ESPM processes mine information to determine a likelihood of a presence of a mine. A robot can autonomously modify behavior responsive to an indication of a detected mine. The behavior is modified between detection of mines, detailed scanning and characterization of the mine, developing mine indication parameters, and resuming detection. Real time messages are passed between the RIK and the ESPM. A combination of ESPM bound messages and RIK bound messages cause the robot platform to switch between modes including a calibration mode, the mine detection mode, and the mine characterization mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLCInventors: Roelof J. Versteeg, Douglas A. Few, Robert A. Kinoshita, Doug Johnson, Ondrej Linda
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Patent number: 8355818Abstract: A robot includes a hazard sensor, a locomotor, and a system controller. The robot senses a hazard intensity at a location of the robot, moves to a new location in response to the hazard intensity, and autonomously repeats the sensing and moving to determine multiple hazard levels at multiple locations. The robot may also include a communicator to communicate the multiple hazard levels to a remote controller. The remote controller includes a communicator for sending user commands to the robot and receiving the hazard levels from the robot. A graphical user interface displays an environment map of the environment proximate the robot and a scale for indicating a hazard intensity. A hazard indicator corresponds to a robot position in the environment map and graphically indicates the hazard intensity at the robot position relative to the scale.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLCInventors: Curtis W. Nielsen, David J. Bruemmer, Miles C. Walton, Robert S. Hartley, David I. Gertman, Robert A. Kinoshita, Jonathan Whetten
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Publication number: 20120239191Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses provide robotic explosive hazard detection. A robot intelligence kernel (RIK) includes a dynamic autonomy structure with two or more autonomy levels between operator intervention and robot initiative A mine sensor and processing module (ESPM) operating separately from the RIK perceives environmental variables indicative of a mine using subsurface perceptors. The ESPM processes mine information to determine a likelihood of a presence of a mine. A robot can autonomously modify behavior responsive to an indication of a detected mine. The behavior is modified between detection of mines, detailed scanning and characterization of the mine, developing mine indication parameters, and resuming detection. Real time messages are passed between the RIK and the ESPM. A combination of ESPM bound messages and RIK bound messages cause the robot platform to switch between modes including a calibration mode, the mine detection mode, and the mine characterization mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2011Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLCInventors: Roelof J. Versteeg, Douglas A. Few, Robert A. Kinoshita, Doug Johnson, Ondrej Linda
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Publication number: 20110054689Abstract: A robot includes a hazard sensor, a locomotor, and a system controller. The robot senses a hazard intensity at a location of the robot, moves to a new location in response to the hazard intensity, and autonomously repeats the sensing and moving to determine multiple hazard levels at multiple locations. The robot may also include a communicator to communicate the multiple hazard levels to a remote controller. The remote controller includes a communicator for sending user commands to the robot and receiving the hazard levels from the robot. A graphical user interface displays an environment map of the environment proximate the robot and a scale for indicating a hazard intensity. A hazard indicator corresponds to a robot position in the environment map and graphically indicates the hazard intensity at the robot position relative to the scale.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLCInventors: Curtis W. Nielsen, David J. Bruemmer, Miles C. Walton, Robert S. Hartley, David I. Gertman, Robert A. Kinoshita, Jonathan Whetten
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Patent number: 6958746Abstract: The present invention provides a modular, flexible system for deploying multiple video perception technologies. The telepresence system of the present invention is capable of allowing an operator to control multiple mono and stereo video inputs in a hands-free manner. The raw data generated by the input devices is processed into a common zone structure that corresponds to the commands of the user, and the commands represented by the zone structure are transmitted to the appropriate device. This modularized approach permits input devices to be easily interfaced with various telepresence devices. Additionally, new input devices and telepresence devices are easily added to the system and are frequently interchangeable. The present invention also provides a modular configuration component that allows an operator to define a plurality of views each of which defines the telepresence devices to be controlled by a particular input device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2000Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLCInventors: Matthew O. Anderson, W. David Willis, Robert A. Kinoshita