MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517096382 A) filed by Framatome Gmbh, Erlangen, Germany, on Oct. 7, for 'method for automatically mapping the radiation in a portion of a building and a robot vehicle.'
Inventor(s) include Kohn, Sebastian; Sommer, Oliver; Weber, Adele; Muhamad Ali, Naeel; and Querfurth, Frank.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a method for automatically mapping the radiation in a portion of a building (7) and/or of a portion of a transport object using a robot vehicle (1), the portion of the building and/or of the transport object comprising a plurality of surfaces (9, 10), the method comprising: acquiring (1010) a 3D map (42) of a portion of a building (7) and/or of a portion of a transport object, wherein the 3D map (42) comprises a plurality of segments (44), each representing a surface (9, 10) of the building and/or of the transport object; applying to each segment a plurality sectors forming a grid of sectors, each sector having a border; physically marking, by the robot vehicle, at least a portion of the border of each sector (46) with paint on the corresponding surface (9, 10); and mapping the radiation for one or more sectors (46), by scanning, by the robot vehicle, with a radiation sensor (28) each sector of the one or more sectors, to measure the radioactive radiation within that sector, wherein the method further comprises: rendering at least one 3D image based on at least one portion of the 3D Map; sending the at least one rendered 3D image to at least one screen (62, 66) of a virtual reality system being arranged remotely from the robot vehicle; detecting commands from a commanding device (64) of the virtual reality system (60); transmitting the commands to the robot vehicle; and operating the robot vehicle in response to the commands."
The patent application was internationally filed on Apr. 19, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/060171.
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