Real-time route and sensor planning system with variable mission objectives
AssigneeLockheed Martin Corporation
InventorsAbha Moitra, Robert M. Mattheyses, Robert J. Szczerba, Louis J. Hoebel, Virginia A. Didomizio, Boris Yamrom
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Abstract
A method routes an entity (200) through a predetermined area for scanning the content of the predetermined area. The method comprises the steps of: partitioning the predetermined area into cells (100); determining a starting cell for the entity (200); initiating a scan of a number of the cells from the starting cell and determining the content of each of the number of cells; and determining a total cost for the entity (200) to travel to each of the scanned cells and to perform a scan from each of the scanned cells.
Claims18
A method for routing an entity through a predetermined area for scanning the content of the predetermined area, said method comprising the steps of:
- partitioning the predetermined area into cells;
- determining a starting cell for the entity;
- initiating a scan of a number of the cells from the starting cell and determining the content of each of the number of cells;
- and
- determining a total cost for the entity to travel to each of the scanned cells and performing a scan from each of the scanned cells.
A system for scanning a target portion of a predefined search area, said system comprising:
- a sensor for scanning a first part of the predefined search area from a starting point;
- and
- a device for analyzing output from said sensor and determining a destination point within the predefined search area for said sensor,
- said sensor scanning a second part of the predefined search area from the destination point, the first part and the second part together comprising a part of the predefined search area at least as large as the target portion of the predefined search area.
A computer program product for determining a route for an entity through a predetermined area and for analyzing the content of the predetermined area, said product comprising:
- a first procedure that partitions the predetermined area into cells;
- a second procedure that determines a starting cell for the entity;
- a third procedure that initiates a scan of a number of the cells from the starting cell and determines the content of each of the number of cells;
- and
- a fourth procedure that determines a total cost for the entity to travel to each of the scanned cells and for performing a scan from each of the scanned cells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.