Nvidia patents software to automatically test and score robot performance
Nvidia describes a method for evaluating robotics systems by running specific tasks on a test platform. The system generates data from these tasks and uses software plugins to calculate performance scores that are then shown to a user.
In the filing’s own words
In various examples, a technique for evaluating a robotics system includes receiving a configuration document including at least descriptions of a robotics system, an operating environment, and one or more tasks, and instantiating one or more instances of a test stack operating on a robotics platform, wherein a number of the one or more instances is determined based at least on the one or more tasks. The technique also includes generating one or more items of test data based at least on the execution of the one or more tasks via the test stack, executing a set of metrics plugins to calculate one or more metric values based at least on the one or more items of test data, and collecting at least the one or more metric values for display to a user.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method, comprising: receiving a configuration document including at least descriptions of a robotics system, an operating environment, and one or more tasks; instantiating one or more instances of a test stack operating on a robotics platform, a number of the one or more instances being determined based at least on the one or more tasks; generating one or more items of test data based at least on the execution of the one or more tasks via the test stack; executing a set of one or more metrics plugins to calculate one or more metric values based at least on the one or more items of test data; and collecting at least the one or more metric values for display to a user.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- BENCHMARKING AND EVALUATION OF ROBOTICS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
- Publication number
- US20260267781A1
- Application number
- 19074249
- Filed
- Mar 7, 2025
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 11/3688 Physics & computingG06F 11/3692 Physics & computingMore from Nvidia in Robots & automation
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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