US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for dynamics-aware comparison of reward functions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,941, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dynamics-aware comparison of reward functions" was invented by Blake Warren Wulfe (San Francisco), Rowan McAllister (Los Altos, Calif.) and Adrien David Gaidon (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to dynamics-aware comparison of reward functions. One embodiment generates a reference reward function; computes a dynamics-aware transformation of the reference reward function based on a transition model of an environment of a robot; computes a dynamics-aware tran...