US 6,725,152 B2 · Real-time route and sensor planning system with variable mission objectives

Abstract

A method routes an entity (200) through a predetermined area for scanning the content of the predetermined area. The method includes 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.

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Dependent claims

A method for routing an entity through a predetermined area and 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.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/079,959Filed 21 Feb 2002

Published

US 2003/0229443 A111 Dec 2003

Granted

20 Apr 2004

Term ends

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Classification2 codes

G06Q 10/047
Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem":…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

Real-time route and sensor planning system with variable mission objectives

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Real-time route and sensor planning system with variable mission objectives

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Abstract

Claims16