MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641114396 A) filed by Sivakumari Bondalapati; Dr. S. Venkata Rao; Dr. Ch. V. M. S. N. Pavan Kumar; Pulukuri Aparna; S. Chanti; and Pasumala Vamsshidhar Reddy on September 24, 2026, for Ai-Enabled Autonomous Drainage Inspection And Cleaning Robot With Quantum-Inspired Multi-Objective Path Optimization.
Inventors include Sivakumari Bondalapati; Dr. S. Venkata Rao; Dr. Ch. V. M. S. N. Pavan Kumar; Pulukuri Aparna; S. Chanti; and Pasumala Vamsshidhar Reddy.
The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT An AI-enabled autonomous drainage inspection and cleaning robot (100) and associated quantum inspired multi-objective path optimization method are disclosed. The robot comprises a locomotion subsystem (104) for traversing pipes of varying diameter, a sensing subsystem (102) providing LiDAR, image, sonar and gas/flow data, an edge AI processing unit (106) that classifies pipe defects and debris using a trained neural network, a quantum-inspired optimization engine (108) that represents the pipe network as a weighted graph and computes an efficient traversal route by encoding candidate routes as qubit-inspired probability amplitude pairs, probabilistically generating and evaluating candidate routes against a multi-objective cost model (110) balancing energy, time, coverage, and defect priority, and iteratively updating the amplitude pairs via a rotation-gate rule, a cleaning subsystem (114) responsive to the classification output, and a communication module (116) reporting to a base station (118). The invention enables energy-efficient, defect-prioritized, real-time-adaptive autonomous inspection and cleaning of drainage networks without requiring physical quantum computing hardware, reducing manual entry into hazardous confined spaces.
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