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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2015
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Harshad S. Sane, Southbury, CT (US);
George Nicholas Loussides, Branford, CT (US);
Igor Cherepinsky, Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Brendan J. Englot, New York, NY (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method for path planning for a plurality of vehicles in a mission space includes determining, with a processor, information indicative of a first local graph of a first vehicle; receiving, with the processor over a communication link, information indicative of a second local graph from a second vehicle; assembling, with the processor, information indicative of a global graph in response to the receiving of the second local graph; wherein the global graph includes information assembled from the first local graph and the second local graph; and wherein the global graph indicates connectivity of objectives for each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles in the mission space.