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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2021
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An autonomous distributed coordination system for a broad-area search in an unknown environment without the need for a prior plan and map sharing. It includes: a sensor input processing section for acquiring (i) relative position information relative to another mobile body, (ii) path information in past and (iii) surrounding shape information; other mobile body avoidance module for generating, based on the relative position information, a first action candidate for avoiding the another mobile body; a past path avoidance module for generating, based on the path information, a second action candidate for avoiding the past path; an obstruct avoidance module for generating, based on the depth information, a third action candidate for avoiding a surrounding obstruct; and an integration module for determining a velocity or angular velocity of the mobile body based on the first action candidate, the second action candidate and the third action candidate.