ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,135, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Localization algorithm" was invented by Matthew Goodell (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein include an automated vehicle performing localization functions using particle scoring and particle filters. The automated vehicle performs a phase correlation operation that transforms image data of a sensed map and pre-stored base map from a spatial to frequency domain and combines the transformed maps to generate image data of a correlation map. Estimated location information of particles are compared against sensed data or other dat...