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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Leendert Dorst, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Karen Irene Trovato, Putnam Valley, NY (US);
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/900 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for path planning are presented. Path planning involves propagating cost waves in a configuration space representation of a task space. A space variant metric and budding are used for cost wave propagation. The disclosed method and apparatus are readily adaptable to robots with n degrees of freedom.