US 11,933,021 B2
Excavating earth from a dig site using an excavation vehicle
Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, San Franciso, CA (US); Gaurav Jitendra Kikani, San Franciso, CA (US); Andrew Liang, San Franciso, CA (US); Pradeesh Suganthan, Mountain View, CA (US); James Alan Emerick, Berkeley, CA (US); Sarah Marie Thornton, Newark, CA (US); Ammar Idris Kothari, San Francisco, CA (US); and Edward Joseph Garza, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to BUILT ROBOTICS INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Built Robotics Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/964,038.
Application 17/964,038 is a continuation of application No. 17/727,559, filed on Apr. 22, 2022, granted, now 11,512,448.
Application 17/727,559 is a continuation of application No. 16/447,971, filed on Jun. 21, 2019, granted, now 11,332,910, issued on May 17, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/703,773, filed on Jul. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0031524 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. E02F 9/20 (2006.01); E02F 5/14 (2006.01); E02F 9/26 (2006.01)
CPC E02F 9/2041 (2013.01) [E02F 9/262 (2013.01); E02F 9/265 (2013.01); E02F 5/145 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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15. An autonomous construction vehicle comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions for excavating material at a site encoded thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the autonomous construction vehicle to perform the steps comprising:
accessing, by the autonomous construction vehicle, instructions identifying a plurality of starting locations, and, for each starting location, a target depth corresponding to the starting location;
autonomously moving, by the autonomous construction vehicle, to a first starting location;
autonomously drilling, by the autonomous construction vehicle, a first component to the target depth corresponding to the first starting location;
autonomously moving, by the autonomous construction vehicle, to a second starting location; and
autonomously drilling, by the autonomous construction vehicle, a second component to the target depth corresponding to the second starting location.