SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SEARCH BY DISTRIBUTED ELEMENTS

Patent №

US 7,908,040

Granted

2011-03-15

Filed 2004

Owner

RAYTHEON COMPANY

Lab

AI components

5

ml · vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10892747

A system and method for decentralized cooperative control of a team of agents for geographic and other search tasks. The approach is behavior-based and uses probability particle approach to the search problem. Agents are attracted to probability distributions in the form of virtual particles of probability that represent hypotheses about the existence of objects of interest in a geographic area or a data-space. Reliance on dependable, high-bandwidth communication is reduced by modeling the movements of other team members and the objects of interest between periodic update messages.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Vision1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.98
Evolutionary computation0.34
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

RAYTHEON COMPANY

assignment · 162280151

Assignors

HOWARD, MICHAEL D., PAYTON, DAVID W., BRADSHAW, WENDELL D., SMITH, TIMOTHY D.

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

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