METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE UPDATING OF A MACHINE DATABASE

Patent №

US 6,701,239

Granted

2004-03-02

Filed 2002

Owner

CATERPILLAR INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10120043

A method and apparatus for updating a machine database. The database includes data representing the desired and actual terrain of a work site. Additional data represents portions of the work site which have been further worked. An indicator detects the machine's current work function and updates the data in the database based on the current work function.

PlanningE02F 9/205E02F 3/842E02F 9/2045E02F 9/26G05D 1/0274G01S 19/50

AI classification

Planning0.96
AI hardware0.04
Knowledge representation0.03
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

CATERPILLAR INC.

assignment · 127880678

Assignors

KEEFER, CLAUDE W.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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