US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on June 30 for "Distributed motion planning and control of autonomous ground and aerial vehicles" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,835, issued on June 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Distributed motion planning and control of autonomous ground and aerial vehicles" was invented by Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.), Taewan Kim (Seattle) and Abraham Vinod (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) carrying one or multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform one or multiple tasks necessitating visiting one or multiple target locations is controlled by determining a reachable set defining a region of space including a target location for performing the task and a ...