MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631002633 A) filed by Dr. Subir Kumar Das, Kolkata, West Bengal, on Jan. 9, for 'a hierarchical operative critical-structure based autonomous navigation and motion control system.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Subir Kumar Das.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a hierarchical navigation system and method for autonomous mobile robots operating in environments containing obstacles. The system enables local path planning and obstacle avoidance without reliance on a pre-constructed global map, making it su...