US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 28 for "Control device for updating autonomous robot map based on sensor data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,129, issued on July 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device for updating autonomous robot map based on sensor data" was invented by Kazuki Matsumoto (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile robot (10) is capable of autonomously moving. A LiDAR (14a) is a three-dimensional sensor for three-dimensionally recognition of an external environment. A storage (12a) stores map data three-dimensionally indicating the external environment. A processor (11) controls an autonomous movement of the autonomous mobile robot (10) according to a position estimation based on sensing data of the LiDAR ...