MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541079603 A) filed by Manipal Academy Of Higher Education on August 22, 2025, for A System And Method For Obstacle-Adaptive Decentralized Exploration And Coverage By Robotic Agents.
Inventors include Vishnu G Nair; and Jayalakshmi K P.
The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.
Abstract: A method of operating a decentralized multi-agent exploration and coverage system (101) comprises partitioning a workspace into disjoint task regions using distance- based Voronoi decomposition, and planning a coverage trajectory integrating frontier-based exploration with dynamic spanning-tree coverage. An obsta...