Patents by Inventor Shilei Tan

Shilei Tan 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: 11790040
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for object detection and recognition based on a neural network. The method includes: adding a detection layer following three detection layers of an existing YOLOv5 network model, to construct a new YOLOv5 network model; then, training the new YOLOv5 network model by considering an overlapping area between a predicted box and a ground truth box, a center-to-center distance between the two boxes, and an aspect ratio of the two boxes; and finally, inputting a to-be-detected image into the trained new YOLOv5 network model, outputting a predicted box of an object and probability values corresponding to a class to which the object belongs, and setting a class corresponding to a maximum probability value as a predicted class of the object in the to-be-detected image. This method can quickly and effectively detect multiple classes of objects. Especially, a detection effect for small objects is more ideal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DIBI (CHONGQING) INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Shilei Tan, Li Huang, Ziqiang Jiang, Jian Liu, Lihui Tan
  • Patent number: 11782448
    Abstract: A method for obstacle detection and recognition for an intelligent snow sweeping robot is disclosed, comprising: 1) disposing ultrasonic sensors at a front end of the snow sweeping robot to detect distance information from an obstacle ahead; and disposing radar sensors at the front and rear of the snow sweeping robot to detect whether a creature suddenly approaches; 2) processing signals detected by each of the ultrasonic sensors and radar sensors, and calculating a forward distance of the snow sweeping robot; and 3) determining a snow cover extent of a working road, detecting a change of the distance from the obstacles, and recognizing the obstacles for conditions of an ultrasonic ranging variation ratio and a variation of the forward distance of the snow sweeping robot, a change of the signal detected by radar sensors, and a descriptive statistic of the snow cover extent within a specific time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Chongqing University
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Ziqiang Jiang, Shilei Tan, Junfeng Lai, Huan Liu, Li Huang, Jie Zhang, Huan Chen, Hong Long, Fang Hu, Jiangyu Wu, Qin Hu, Wenqi Li
  • Publication number: 20230062408
    Abstract: The invention discloses an adaptive path planning method based on neutral networks trained by the evolutional algorithms, the neutral network training method comprises input and output of the data acquired by the mobile sensors installed on the mobile robots as the neutral networks, and training and optimization of the recurrent neutral networks based on the evolutional algorithms; the path planning method refers to the application of the trained neutral networks to the path planning of the mobile robot, the invention effectively improves local quick search capability and global search capability of the algorithms by applying the evolutional algorithms to the optimization of the recurrent neutral networks, so that the robot can plan a rational path in a dense and uncertain environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yongduan SONG, Lihui TAN, Lei FANG, Shilei TAN, Shuai WANG
  • Patent number: 11462053
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a neural network-based visual detection and tracking method of an inspection robot, which includes the following steps of: 1) acquiring environmental images of a dynamic background a movement process of the robot; 2) preprocessing the acquired images; 3) detecting human targets and specific behaviors in the images in the robot body, and saving the sizes, position information and features of the human targets with the specific behaviors; 4) controlling the orientation of a robot gimbal by using a target tracking algorithm to make sure that a specific target is always located at the central positions of the images; and 5) controlling the robot to move along with a tracked object. The neural network-based visual detection and tracking method of an inspection robot in the present disclosure has a quite high adaptive ability, achieves better detection and tracking effects on targets in a dynamic background scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Chongqing University
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Li Huang, Shilei Tan, Junfeng Lai, Huan Liu, Ziqiang Jiang, Jie Zhang, Huan Chen, Jiangyu Wu, Hong Long, Fang Hu, Qin Hu
  • Publication number: 20220292311
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for object detection and recognition based on a neural network. The method includes: adding a detection layer following three detection layers of an existing YOLOv5 network model, to construct a new YOLOv5 network model; then, training the new YOLOv5 network model by considering an overlapping area between a predicted box and a ground truth box, a center-to-center distance between the two boxes, and an aspect ratio of the two boxes; and finally, inputting a to-be-detected image into the trained new YOLOv5 network model, outputting a predicted box of an object and probability values corresponding to a class to which the object belongs, and setting a class corresponding to a maximum probability value as a predicted class of the object in the to-be-detected image. This method can quickly and effectively detect multiple classes of objects. Especially, a detection effect for small objects is more ideal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Shilei Tan, Li Huang, Ziqiang Jiang, Jian Liu, Lihui Tan
  • Publication number: 20220196459
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a real-time vehicle overload detection method based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). The present disclosure detects a road driving vehicle in real time with a CNN method and a you only look once (YOLO)-V3 detection algorithm, detects the number of wheels to obtain the number of axles, detects a relative wheelbase, compares the number of axles and the relative wheelbase with a national vehicle load standard to obtain a maximum load of the vehicle, and compares the maximum load with an actual load measured by a piezoelectric sensor under the vehicle, thereby implementing real-time vehicle overload detection. The present disclosure has desirable real-time detection, can implement no-parking vehicle overload detection on the road, and avoids potential traffic congestions and road traffic accidents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: Dibi (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Star Institute of Intelligent Systems
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Yujuan Wang, Gonglin Lu, Shilei Tan, Yating Yang, Chunxu Ren, Mingyang Liu
  • Publication number: 20220180090
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a neural network-based visual detection and tracking method of an inspection robot, which includes the following steps of: 1) acquiring environmental images of a dynamic background a movement process of the robot; 2) preprocessing the acquired images; 3) detecting human targets and specific behaviors in the images in the robot body, and saving the sizes, position information and features of the human targets with the specific behaviors; 4) controlling the orientation of a robot gimbal by using a target tracking algorithm to make sure that a specific target is always located at the central positions of the images; and 5) controlling the robot to move along with a tracked object. The neural network-based visual detection and tracking method of an inspection robot in the present disclosure has a quite high adaptive ability, achieves better detection and tracking effects on targets in a dynamic background scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Li Huang, Shilei Tan, Junfeng Lai, Huan Liu, Ziqiang Jiang, Jie Zhang, Huan Chen, Jiangyu Wu, Hong Long, Fang Hu, Qin Hu
  • Publication number: 20220171395
    Abstract: A method for obstacle detection and recognition for an intelligent snow sweeping robot is disclosed, comprising: 1) disposing ultrasonic sensors at a front end of the snow sweeping robot to detect distance information from an obstacle ahead; and disposing radar sensors at the front and rear of the snow sweeping robot to detect whether a creature suddenly approaches; 2) processing signals detected by each of the ultrasonic sensors and radar sensors, and calculating a forward distance of the snow sweeping robot; and 3) determining a snow cover extent of a working road, detecting a change of the distance from the obstacles, and recognizing the obstacles for conditions of an ultrasonic ranging variation ratio and a variation of the forward distance of the snow sweeping robot, a change of the signal detected by radar sensors, and a descriptive statistic of the snow cover extent within a specific time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Chongqing University
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Ziqiang Jiang, Shilei Tan, Junfeng Lai, Huan Liu, Li Huang, Jie Zhang, Huan Chen, Hong Long, Fang Hu, Jiangyu Wu, Qin Hu, Wenqi Li