MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511013980 A) filed by Caterpillar Inc. on February 18, 2025, for System And Method For Determining Entry And Exit Edges Of A Worksite For A Machine.
Inventors include Balwal, Ujjwel; and Deenathayalan, Manivannan.
The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.
Abstract: A system for controlling movement of a machine is described. The system includes a controller configured to receive a virtual map corresponding to a worksite, determine an outline of virtual map, and generate a polygon based on outline. The controller is configured to segment the polygon into Voronoi regions, determine centerline and centerline branches, assign weights, and determine all-pair shortest paths. The controller is configured to identify a first longest path between a first exterior vertex and a second exterior vertex and a second longest path between a third exterior vertex and a fourth exterior vertex, pair first exterior vertex with third exterior vertex and second exterior vertex with fourth exterior vertex, identify one of an edge as the entry edge and the other edge as the exit edge, and control movement of the machine along a longest traversable path between the entry edge and the exit edge. FIG. 3
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