MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641083606 A) filed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on July 07, 2026, for Multi-Robot Navigation And Task-Allocation System With Value-Driven Mode Switching.
Inventors include Kochuvila, Sreeja; Varghese, Glace T; and Kumar, Navin.
The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system (100) and a method (300) for navigation and task allocation among a plurality of robots (102). The system (100) includes a robot (104) carrying a sensor (106) and an actuator (108), a navigation unit (112) navigating in a first map-based mode and a second map-free mode, a mode controller (114) deriving a value from a correspondence between a sensed environment and a map (120) and switching the navigation unit (112) upon the value crossing a threshold, a task allocation unit (116) distributing and redistributing a task, and a communication interface (118) conveying the value and a task state among the plurality of robots (102). Unlike single-mode frameworks that falter as map reliability changes, this approach adapts navigation and reallocates tasks across mixed environments, enabling cooperative robotic exploration, inspection, and search-and-rescue missions.
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