US 11,720,115 B2
User control device for a transporter
Bob D. Peret, Bedford, NH (US); Stewart M. Coulter, Bedford, NH (US); Dean Kamen, Bedford, NH (US); and Derek G. Kane, Manchester, NH (US)
Assigned to DEKA Products Limited Partnership, Manchester, NH (US)
Filed by DEKA Products Limited Partnership, Manchester, NH (US)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/14,770.
Application 17/014,770 is a continuation of application No. 15/486,980, filed on Apr. 13, 2017, granted, now 10,802,495.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/322,522, filed on Apr. 14, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0096577 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01S 19/01 (2010.01); B60L 15/10 (2006.01); A61G 5/10 (2006.01); A61G 3/08 (2006.01); A61G 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0223 (2013.01) [A61G 3/0808 (2013.01); A61G 5/06 (2013.01); A61G 5/061 (2013.01); A61G 5/104 (2013.01); A61G 5/1043 (2013.01); A61G 5/1051 (2016.11); A61G 5/1059 (2013.01); A61G 5/1067 (2013.01); B60L 15/10 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G05D 1/0278 (2013.01); A61G 2203/14 (2013.01); A61G 2203/22 (2013.01); A61G 2203/30 (2013.01); G01S 19/01 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0206 (2013.01); Y02T 10/64 (2013.01); Y02T 90/16 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for storing a transporter in a vehicle, the transporter including a processor configured to execute instructions to control motion of the transporter, the vehicle having a storage compartment, the storage compartment having a door, the door being associated with a doorway, the method comprising:
receiving, by the processor, and segmenting, by the processor, sensor data from sensors associated with the transporter;
identifying, by the processor, at least one plane within the segmented sensor data;
identifying, by the processor, the door and the doorway within the at least one plane;
measuring, by the processor, the doorway, including a width of the doorway;
generating, by the processor, an alert if the doorway is smaller than the a pre-selected size related to a size of the transporter;
positioning, by the processor, the transporter for entering the vehicle through the doorway, the positioning being based at least in part on the width of the doorway;
generating, by the processor, a first signal for opening the door;
providing, by the processor, at least one movement command instructing the transporter to move through the doorway; and
generating, by the processor, a second signal to close the door.