Dynamic segmentation and occupancy scoring in edge environments with mobile devices for real-time decision making
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsEric L. Caron, Vinicius Michel Gottin, Herberth Birck Fröhlich
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Abstract
Occupancy aware decision-making is disclosed. Positions of entities in an environment are determined. Stationary entities are used as markers to segment the environment. Positions of non-stationary entities are used to determine an occupancy score for each of the segments. Decision making operations, such as pathfinding for mobile entities, can be performed using the occupancy scores of the segments. The occupancy scores and segmentation adapt to changes in the environment.
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A method comprising:
- reading tags associated with entities in an environment using a positioning system to determine positioning data for each of the entities in the environment, wherein each of the tags is associated with an entity;
- identifying markers based on the positioning data, wherein the markers include entities that are currently stationary;
- segmenting the environment to generate a segmented space that includes segments, wherein each of the segments is associated with one of the markers;
- determining an occupancy score for each of the segments based on the positioning data of mobile entities in the environment for a current cycle;
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- performing an occupancy-aware operation based on the occupancy scores.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
- reading tags associated with entities in an environment using a positioning system to determine positioning data for each of the entities in the environment, wherein each of the tags is associated with an entity;
- identifying markers based on the positioning data, wherein the markers include entities that are currently stationary;
- segmenting the environment to generate a segmented space that includes segments, wherein each of the segments is associated with one of the markers;
- determining an occupancy score for each of the segments based on the positioning data of mobile entities in the environment for a current cycle;
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- performing an occupancy-aware operation based on the occupancy scores.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.