Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Relative location – Collision avoidance
Patent
1997-11-12
2000-04-11
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Relative location
Collision avoidance
701 25, 701206, 395 90, 318587, 340436, G01S 778
Patent
active
060497564
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for analyzing a specified path A-B with respect to a specified obstacle determines if the path intersects the obstacle and determines a collision avoidance path when the path is determined to intersect the obstacle. The apparatus is preferably a dedicated path analyzer that provides high speed path analysis support to a host computer performing navigation functions. The path analyzer includes a collision detector and a collision avoidance path generator. The path analyzer receives from the host computer coordinates representing the specified path's first and second endpoints (A and B) in three dimensional space and the specified obstacle's physical extent. The collision detector generates a preliminary result signal indicating whether the specified path does not intercept the specified obstacle, unavoidably intercepts the specified obstacle, or avoidably intercepts the specified obstacle. When the preliminary result signal indicates that the specified path avoidably intercepts the specified obstacle, the collision avoidance path generator selecting a vertex (C) of a parallelepiped corresponding to the specified obstacle's physical extent, such that a modified path A-C-B from the first specified path endpoint to the selected vertex to the second specified path endpoint circumnavigates the obstacle. The path analyzer returns signals to the host computer representing the preliminary result signal and, when the preliminary result signal indicates that the specified path avoidably intercepts the specified obstacle, the selected vertex.
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Arthur Gertrude
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Lockheed Martin Corporation
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