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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Aliakbar Aghamohammadi, San Diego, CA (US);
Serafin Diaz Spindola, San Diego, CA (US);
Bardia Fallah Behabadi, San Diego, CA (US);
Christopher Lott, San Diego, CA (US);
Shayegan Omidshafiei, Boston, MA (US);
Kiran Somasundaram, San Diego, CA (US);
Sarah Paige Gibson, Del Mar, CA (US);
Casimir Matthew Wierzynski, La Jolla, CA (US);
Saurav Agarwal, College Station, TX (US);
Gerhard Reitmayr, Vienna, AT;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method substantially simultaneously plans a path and maps an environment by a robot. The method determines a mean of an occupancy level for a location in a map. The method also includes determining a probability distribution function (PDF) of the occupancy level. The method further includes calculating a cost function based on the PDF. Finally, the method includes simultaneously planning the path and mapping the environment based on the cost function.