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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2013
Applicants:

Thales, Courbevoie, FR;

Ecole Nationale Superieure DE Techniques Avancees Bretagne, Brest, FR;

Inventors:

Jean-Philippe Brunet, Plougonvelin, FR;

Thomas Sousselier, Paris, FR;

Johann Dreo, Epernon, FR;

Luc Jaulin, Brest, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G05D 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0692 (2013.01); G05D 1/10 (2013.01); G05D 1/104 (2013.01); Y10S 901/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is provided for piloting a set of robots comprising, for each robot, a step of generation of a guidance instruction for the robot at a given instant, the guidance instructions for the set of robots being determined from a single set of constraints comprising a pack constraint comprising at least one set of at least one first relative positioning constraint between a robot and its neighbors of the first order in the pack for the set of robots to form a pack exhibiting a predetermined shape, the method further comprising a step of piloting of the robots so as to observe the guidance instruction.


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