Patent ID: 11861957
Assignee: ARGO AI, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A time master and sensor data collection system for a robotic device, the system comprising:
a housing;
a processing device contained in the housing; and
one or more sensors contained within the housing and communicatively connected to the processing device, the one or more sensors comprising at least an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a global positioning system (GPS) sensor; and
programming instructions that are configured to cause the processing device to:
operate as a timer that generates a vehicle time without reliance on one or more other time systems,
receive data from the one or more sensors contained within the housing, and
synchronize the data from the one or more sensors contained within the housing with the vehicle time by associating timestamps for the vehicle time with data received from the one or more sensors.