Patents by Inventor Rainer Keummerle

Rainer Keummerle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11953912
    Abstract: A method for traveling down a prescribed arrangement of paths which are connected to one another at nodes with a mobile robot. The robot changes from an initial route, which contains all as yet untraveled paths, to a different replacement route including a loop route which retakes at least one path and at least one further path, and a subsequent remaining route which contains all as yet untraveled paths at that time if a value of a quality function for the replacement route is lower than a value of this quality function for the initial route. The quality function is dependent on a first effort, a second effort, and a variable weighting of the first and second values in relation to one another. The variable weighting weights the second effort lower for a first localization uncertainty of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Baldini, Alberto Soragna, Rainer Keummerle
  • Publication number: 20220137637
    Abstract: A method for traveling down a prescribed arrangement of paths which are connected to one another at nodes with a mobile robot. The robot changes from an initial route, which contains all as yet untraveled paths, to a different replacement route including a loop route which retakes at least one path and at least one further path, and a subsequent remaining route which contains all as yet untraveled paths at that time if a value of a quality function for the replacement route is lower than a value of this quality function for the initial route. The quality function is dependent on a first effort, a second effort, and a variable weighting of the first and second values in relation to one another. The variable weighting weights the second effort lower for a first localization uncertainty of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Marco Baldini, Rainer Keummerle, Alberto Soragna