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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:
Dec. 07, 1999

Filed:

May. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Christopher Charles Law, Charlton, NY (US);

William John Schroeder, Schenectady, NY (US);

Hsuan Chang, Dublin, OH (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701301 ; 701 26 ; 701201 ;
Abstract

This present invention makes use of a method for automatically finds collision-free part removal paths. The system sparsely samples the high-dimensional state space and maps the rest of the space using proximity assumptions (assumptions about states near the samples). The present invention is less complex and faster than previously known methods.


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