Method for determining at least one optimal trajectory for reaching a fuzzy target situated in a medium starting from a point remote from the target
US6711529B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 15, 2000 |
| Grant date | Mar 23, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 15, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V11/00
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Method for determining at least one optimal trajectory between a point and a target situated in a medium and forming a centered volume, the position of each of whose points is known with geometrical uncertainties, characterized in that it consists in defining for the centered volume a gain which takes different values from the center to the peripheral boundary, and a zero value outside the centered volume; in determining a statistically significant number of instances of the positions of the centered volume as a function of the geometrical uncertainties which affect it, and in determining an aggregate gain at each point; in defining a volume of interest, site of the points with positive aggregate gains in the medium; in defining curvilinear trajectories between at least one entry point and at least one exit point of the said volume of interest; in integrating the aggregate gain along each of the said curvilinear trajectories in such a way as to obtain a profit associated with each trajectory, and in retaining all the trajectories whose profit is greater than a threshold.
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