System for obstacle avoidance by autonomous mobile device

• Main Authors: Madhivanan, Rajasimman, Jayaprakasam, Madan, Webster, Roger Robert
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• 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

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...