ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,330, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountian View, Calif.).
"Robot navigation using a high-level policy model and a trained low-level policy model" was invented by Alexander Toshev (San Francisco), Marek Fiser (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ayzaan Wahid (Yorba Linda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Training and/or using both a high-level policy model and a low-level policy model for mobile robot navigation. High-level output generated using the high-level policy model at each iteration indicates a corresponding high-level action for robot movement in navigating to the navigation target. The low-level output generat...