Amazon Technologies, Inc.

University System of Maryland

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Michael T Barbehenn

Matthew Paul Bell

Satyandra K Gupta

Brual C Shah

In one example, an intersection of a first path and a second path may be determined. The first path may be associated with a first mobile drive unit and the second path may be associated with a second mobile drive unit. A plurality of velocity sets may be determined based on the intersection. A velocity set may be selected from the plurality of velocity sets. The velocity set may include velocity values that correspond to the first mobile drive unit and the second mobile drive unit. The selected velocity set may be provided to at least one of the first mobile drive unit or the second mobile drive unit.

Coordination of mobile drive units

A planning module for a water surface vehicle can determine a vehicle trajectory that avoids one or more moving obstacles, such as civilian marine vessels, by performing a lattice-based heuristic search of a state space for the surface vehicle and selecting control action primitives from a predetermined set of control action primitives based on the search. The planning module can separate a travel space into a plurality of regions and can independently scale the control action primitives in each region based on the moving obstacles therein. The heuristic search includes evaluating a cost function at each state of the state space. The cost function can be based on at least predicted movement of the obstacles responsive to respective maneuvers performed by the surface vehicle at each node of the search.

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