System and method for the automatic routing of at-least-partially autonomous vehicles

Abstract

Systems and methods for the automatic routing of at-least-partially autonomous vehicles, characterized by modeling at least a portion of a route of a vehicle as a fluid dynamics potential flow characterized by an irrotational velocity field, wherein: a vehicle is the analogue of a flow particle, an origin of the route is the analogue of a source, and a destination of the route is the analogue of a sink; and, each of one or more obstacles or secondary destinations intermediate to the origin and primary destination for a vehicle are defined as a stream function (W) which adheres to the definition of irrotational and incompressible potential flow that independently represents a flow phenomenon that can influence the route of said vehicle; and, calculating the route of a vehicle based on its current location and the aggregate stream function comprising the sum of each of the flow phenomena acting on a vehicle.

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