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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2022
Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Brian Masao Yamauchi, Boston, MA (US);
Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include receiving a navigation route for a mobile robot. The navigation route includes a sequence of waypoints connected by edges. Each edge corresponds to movement instructions that navigate the mobile robot between waypoints of the sequence of waypoints. While the mobile robot is traveling along the navigation route, the operations include determining that the mobile robot is unable to execute a respective movement instruction for a respective edge of the navigation route due to an obstacle obstructing the respective edge, generating an alternative path to navigate the mobile robot to an untraveled waypoint in the sequence of waypoints, and resuming travel by the mobile robot along the navigation route. The alternative path avoids the obstacle.