US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on April 22 for "Hypergraph search for real-time multi-robot task allocation in a smart factory" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,314, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Hypergraph search for real-time multi-robot task allocation in a smart factory" was invented by Zixiang Nie (Tampa, Fla.) and Kwang-Cheng Chen (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Task assignment for multi-robot systems (MRSs) in a smart factory (Industry 4.0) is described. Aspects are directed to a hypergraph based MRS and production model facilitating the cooperation among robots and serving frequent reconfiguration desired in Industry 4.0. Aspects are directed to a time complexity friendly search algorithm for real-time application using a h...