MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641115503 A) filed by Dayananda Sagar College Of Engineering on September 26, 2026, for Autonomous Robot Navigation Through Coupled Action Selection And Bellman Update Constraint Masking.
Inventors include Dr. Kiran A Gupta; Dr. Swapnil S. Ninawe; Shashank S; Harshini R; Mayanka Gupta; and Niharika J.
The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.
Abstract: An autonomous robot navigation system couples movement selection with action-value learning through consistent enforcement of spatial boundary constraints. The system represents a navigation region as an occupancy grid containing a robot position, a destination, and stationary or repositionable obstacles. For each current state, a constraint-processing mechanism identifies movements that remain within the grid and restricts both exploratory and reward-maximizing action selection to those movements. Following a transition, the mechanism determines admissible actions at the resulting state and applies the corresponding restriction to the Bellman update, preventing untouched values associated with inadmissible movements from distorting learned navigation preferences. A reward structure combines destination attainment, obstacle penalties, and movement costs, while a decaying exploration schedule progressively favors accumulated navigation experience. Coupled constraint enforcement suppresses boundary-induced learning artifacts and supports compact tabular navigation policies without requiring a neural-network inference engine.
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