Patents by Inventor Piero Micelli

Piero Micelli 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).

  • Path planning method for computing optimal parking maneuvers for road vehicles and corresponding system
    Patent number: 10960876
    Abstract: Path planning method for computing optimal parking maneuvers for road vehicles including the steps of computing a set of value functions of a cost function of parking maneuvers reaching the target set of states as unique viscosity solution of a Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equation, supplying the set of value functions, together with a starting state of the vehicle, as input to the dynamic programming calculation procedure calculating at least the set of vehicle controls. The set of equations modeling the evolution of the state of said road vehicle is a switched system of equations between a first sub-system if the vehicle is in forward motion and a second sub-system if the vehicle is in reverse motion. The cost function takes into account the arrival time a number of direction changes of the road vehicle between forward motion and reverse motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: Magneti Marelli S.p.A., Università degli Studi di Parma
    Inventors: Piero Micelli, Luca Consolini, Mattia Laurini, Marco Locatelli, Axel Furlan, Michele Giorelli
  • PATH PLANNING METHOD FOR COMPUTING OPTIMAL PARKING MANEUVERS FOR ROAD VEHICLES AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190001967
    Abstract: Path planning method for computing optimal parking maneuvers for road vehicles including the steps of computing a set of value functions of a cost function of parking maneuvers reaching the target set of states as unique viscosity solution of a Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equation, supplying the set of value functions, together with a starting state of the vehicle, as input to the dynamic programming calculation procedure calculating at least the set of vehicle controls. The set of equations modeling the evolution of the state of said road vehicle is a switched system of equations between a first sub-system if the vehicle is in forward motion and a second sub-system if the vehicle is in reverse motion. The cost function takes into account the arrival time a number of direction changes of the road vehicle between forward motion and reverse motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Piero Micelli, Luca Consolini, Mattia Laurini, Marco Locatelli, Axel Furlan, Michele Giorelli