Spatiotemporal robot reservation systems and method

A method for implementation by one or more processors, comprising:

• identifying a sequence of spatiotemporal regions of an environment that are reserved for a robot;
• causing operational components of the robot to move the robot through the spatiotemporal regions subject to an inter-region influence that tends to maintain the robot along a first path through all of the spatiotemporal regions;
• determining that the first path will be unpassable by the robot through a given spatiotemporal region;
• and
• causing the operational components to move the robot through the given spatiotemporal region subject to an intra-region influence that maintains the robot along a second path through the given spatiotemporal region, wherein the intra-region influence outweighs the inter-region influence.

At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:

• identifying a sequence of spatiotemporal regions of an environment that are reserved for a robot;
• causing operational components of the robot to move the robot through the spatiotemporal regions subject to an inter-region influence that tends to maintain the robot along a first path through all of the spatiotemporal regions;
• determining that the first path will be unpassable by the robot through a given spatiotemporal region;
• and
• causing the operational components to move the robot through the given spatiotemporal region subject to an intra-region influence that maintains the robot along a second path through the given spatiotemporal region, wherein the intra-region influence outweighs the inter-region influence.