MULTI-SENSOR DEVICE FOR ENVIRONMENT STATE ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION BY SAMPLING ITS OWN SENSORS AND OTHER DEVICES

摘要

Devices and systems for environmental state estimation and decision-making, including an agent device with a plurality of internal sensors and a microprocessor with an agent program, configured to send and receive electronic communications to and from a plurality of external sensors and other agent devices. The agent device predicts the state of its environment at a time and location according to an internal model of the local environment, selectively samples the state of its environment at the time and location by receiving observations about objects and/or action in said environment, determines any environmental state prediction errors, determines the source or sources for any environmental state prediction errors; and updates its internal model. The agent device may initiate action based on its observations and/or predictions.