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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2019
A.9com, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Karl McDowall, Boulder, CO (US);
Nima Keivan, Boulder, CO (US);
Andrew E. Hoffman, Morrison, CO (US);
David Hastings Kerr, Boulder, CO (US);
Joshua Bavari, Boulder, CO (US);
A9.COM, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods to implement preferred pathways in mobile robots. Example methods may include obtaining, via at least one of a user interface and a corresponding Application Programming Interface API call, at least one preferred pathway for an autonomous mobile robot, transmitting the at least one preferred pathway to the autonomous mobile robot, generating a planned path for the autonomous mobile robot based at least in part on an influence function, the influence function being representative of an amount of bias towards the at least one preferred pathway on a motion planning decision of the autonomous mobile robot, the amount of bias being based at least in part on a metric associated with the at least one preferred pathway, and causing the autonomous mobile robot to move from a start point to an end point along the planned path.