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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:
Jul. 22, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2023
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Karl Berntorp, Cambridge, MA (US);

Marcel Menner, Belmont, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/08 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/08 (2013.01); B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0026 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0052 (2013.01); B60W 2420/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for controlling a vehicle in an environment. The method uses a processor coupled to a memory storing a probabilistic map of the environment relating measurements of a magnetic field and time of the measurements of the magnetic field to a probability of locations within the environment. The processor is coupled with stored instructions when executed by the processor carry out steps of the method comprising estimating a probability of the current location in the environment based on a current measurement of a magnetometer at a current timestamp by submitting the current measurement and the current timestamp to the probabilistic map, and controlling an actuator of the vehicle based on a stochastic control employing the probability of the current location.


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