Abstract: An example method of detecting an element using an autonomous vehicle includes the following operations: using a sensor on the autonomous vehicle to capture image data in a region of interest containing the element, where the image data represents components of the element; filtering the image data to produce filtered data having less of an amount of data than the image data; identifying the components of the element by analyzing the filtered data using a deterministic process; and detecting the element based on the components.

Abstract: An example method is performed by one or more processing devices and includes the following: identifying one or more features based on data obtained from a two-dimensional scan of a space, where the data includes predefined characteristics; identifying physical attributes of the one or more features; performing calculations based on the physical attributes for the one or more features, where the calculations produce one or more possible configurations for one or more candidate transport structures in the space; comparing the one or more possible configurations to one or more predefined configurations for one or more known transport structures; identifying which, if any, of the one or more candidate transport structures is most likely to be a known transport structure based on the comparing; and controlling an autonomous vehicle based on the identifying.

Abstract: An example method of detecting an element using an autonomous vehicle includes the following operations: using a sensor on the autonomous vehicle to capture image data in a region of interest containing the element, where the image data represents components of the element; filtering the image data to produce filtered data having less of an amount of data than the image data; identifying the components of the element by analyzing the filtered data using a deterministic process; and detecting the element based on the components.