System for obstacle avoidance by autonomous mobile device

An autonomous mobile device (AMD) moves through a physical space without human intervention. Data from sensors on the AMD are used to determine an occupancy map indicative of obstacles and their locations in the physical space. A navigation map is created from the occupancy map by inflating the appa...

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Main Authors Madhivanan, Rajasimman, Jayaprakasam, Madan, Webster, Roger Robert
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 30.08.2022
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
CONTROLLING
COUNTING
GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
MEASURING
MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS
NAVIGATION
PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
PHYSICS
REGULATING
SURVEYING
SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
TESTING
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Summary:An autonomous mobile device (AMD) moves through a physical space without human intervention. Data from sensors on the AMD are used to determine an occupancy map indicative of obstacles and their locations in the physical space. A navigation map is created from the occupancy map by inflating the apparent size of the obstacles indicated by the occupancy map. In one implementation the inflation process dynamically skips some portions of the occupancy map based on the presence of an obstacle and a designated inflation distance. The extent of the inflation is based on a size of the AMD. The navigation map is then used for path planning.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201916422846