SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING AND USING TRAFFIC ANALYSIS IN A SPACE WITH MOVING OBSTACLES

A system for improving navigation of robots in a space with a plurality of pedestrians or other movable objects or obstacles. The system includes a traffic analysis assembly that has a traffic sensor(s) sensing movement of the obstacles in the space. The traffic analysis assembly further includes a...

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Main Authors Mika, Jeremy Andrew, Hager, IV, Joseph George, Honeck, Michael R
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.09.2020
Subjects
CALCULATING
CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES
COMPUTING
CONTROLLING
COUNTING
HAND TOOLS
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
MANIPULATORS
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICS
PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS
REGULATING
SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
TRANSPORTING
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Summary:A system for improving navigation of robots in a space with a plurality of pedestrians or other movable objects or obstacles. The system includes a traffic analysis assembly that has a traffic sensor(s) sensing movement of the obstacles in the space. The traffic analysis assembly further includes a processor running a flow module that processes (such as the Gunnar-Farneback optical flow algorithm) output from the traffic sensor to generate traffic analysis results, which include density values for the obstacles in the space and motion information for the obstacles in the space (e.g., speed and direction). The system includes a robot with a controller running a navigation module selecting a navigation route between a current location of the robot and a target location in the space using the traffic analysis result. The workspace is configured such that the obstacles such as pedestrians have unregulated flow patterns in the space.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202016871881