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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1995
Rudolf Bauer, Neubiberg, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
An improved method and apparatus for constructing a cellularly structured environment map of a self-propelled, mobile unit is provided. Examples of such self-propelled, mobile units are household robots, self-propelled vacuum cleaners and industrial transport vehicles. To this end, a higher increment for the occupancy degree of a currently evaluated cell is selected for near objects. Further, the occupancy degree is also incremented dependent on a velocity. As an additional measure given standstill of the unit, all cells of the environment map that are located within the aperture cone of a wavefront that emanates from the sensor of the mobile unit are modified in terms of their occupancy degree values. Additionally, a blind zone in which grid cells of the environment map experience no modification of the occupancy degree is defined around the mobile unit.
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