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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2016
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Carol Ann O'Sullivan, Pasadena, CA (US);
Chonhyon Park, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Max L. Gilbert, Glendale, CA (US);
Jan Ondrej, Pasadena, CA (US);
Kyle G. Freeman, Agoura, CA (US);
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A trained classifier to be used with a navigation algorithm for use with mobile robots to compute safe and efficient trajectories. An offline learning process is used to train a classifier for the navigation algorithm (or motion planner), and the classifier functions, after training is complete, to accurately detect intentions of humans within a space shared with the robot to block the robot from traveling along its current trajectory. At runtime, the trained classifier can be used with regression based on past trajectories of humans (or other tracked, mobile entities) to predict where the humans will move in the future and whether the humans are likely to be blockers. The planning algorithm or motion planner generates trajectories based on predictions of human behavior that allow the robot to navigate amongst crowds of people more safely and efficiently.