US 12,351,209 B2
Method and device for operating a robot with improved object detection
Oliver F. Schwindt, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Joerg Mueller, Mountain View, CA (US); Theresa Kienle, Stuttgart-Neugereut (DE); and Andrei Vatavu, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/424,387
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/057224
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/193273, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 107 443.6 (DE), filed on Mar. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0119007 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/029 (2012.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 60/0011 (2020.02) [B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/029 (2013.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B60W 2050/0215 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0292 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a robot, the method comprising:
obtaining first detection data, from a first detection device of the robot, associated with a first subsection of an environment of the robot;
obtaining second detection data, from a second detection device of the robot, associated with a second subsection of the environment of the robot;
generating a fusion using the first detection data and the second detection data;
identifying an object in the environment of the robot using the fusion;
generating information content about the identified object;
associating redundancy information with the identified object, wherein (i) a first type of the redundancy information indicates that the identified object has been identified based only on the first detection data, (ii) a second type of the redundancy information indicates that the identified object has been identified based only on the second detection data, and (iii) a third type of the redundancy information indicates that at least one section of the identified object has been detected redundantly based on both of the first detection data and the second detection data;
adding the first type, second type, or third type associated redundancy information to the generated information content; and
controlling the robot at least partially automatically based on the generated information content and the added first type, second type, or third type associated redundancy information.