Dr. Nick Gans, head of UTARI’s Automation and Intelligent Systems Division and Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, and Cody Lundberg, Research Scientist II, has been awarded a patent for “Camera and Sensor System for Measurement of Road Surface Deflection.” Gans and Lundberg collaborated with Novateur Research Solutions on an Army Phase 1 and 2 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) to build super-high resolution 3D road surface maps by fusing data from standard cameras and high-resolution 3D stereo line scans, resulting in the awarded patent.
Inventors include UTARI’s Dr. Nick Gans, Cody Lundberg, Michael Arouja, as well as Novateur’s Dr. Zeeshan Rasheed, Dr. Dr. Khurram Hassan Shafique, Maoxu Li.
The patent can be accessed here.