Patents by Inventor Houssam ABBAS

Houssam ABBAS 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: 11429118
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling a fleet of drones. A method includes receiving a mission specification for each drone of one or more drones, each mission specification including spatio-temporal requirements for the drone. The method includes generating, for each drone, a low-rate trajectory for the drone by performing a robustness maximization of satisfying the mission specification over a low-rate sequence of waypoints for the drone based on a mapping between low-rate trajectories and high-rate trajectories. The method includes transmitting, to each drone, the low-rate trajectory for the drone, causing a local controller of each drone to control the drone by generating a high-rate trajectory using the low-rate trajectory and the mapping between low-rate trajectories and high-rate trajectories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
    Inventors: Rahul Mangharam, Yash Vardhan Pant, Houssam Abbas, Rhudii A. Quaye
  • Publication number: 20200348696
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling a fleet of drones. A method includes receiving a mission specification for each drone of one or more drones, each mission specification including spatio-temporal requirements for the drone. The method includes generating, for each drone, a low-rate trajectory for the drone by performing a robustness maximization of satisfying the mission specification over a low-rate sequence of waypoints for the drone based on a mapping between low-rate trajectories and high-rate trajectories. The method includes transmitting, to each drone, the low-rate trajectory for the drone, causing a local controller of each drone to control the drone by generating a high-rate trajectory using the low-rate trajectory and the mapping between low-rate trajectories and high-rate trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Rahul Mangharam, Yash Vardhan Pant, Houssam Abbas, Rhudii A. Quaye
  • Publication number: 20160292307
    Abstract: Embodiments of model-based system design with model verification are disclosed. An embodiment includes receiving a model for a system and at least one specification for the system. In some embodiments, the system determines at least one of a minimum expected robustness value and a maximum expected robustness value for a region of a search space of the model with respect to the at least one specification. The model may be modified based on the determined minimum or maximum expected robust ness value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Georgios FAINEKOS, Bardh HOXHA, Houssam ABBAS