A method of monitoring a robot operation according to some example embodiments, includes receiving robot information from each of the robots through communication with the robots located in a building where the robots provide services, and displaying, on a display unit, a monitoring screen configured to monitor an operational situation of the robots located in the building. The monitoring screen including a building graphic object representing the building, and a state graphic object positioned around the building graphic object, the state graphic object representing state information on a robot located on each of a plurality of floors included in the building, the state information on the robot and a visual appearance of the state graphic object determined based on the robot information received from each of the robots.

Systems and methods for use of autonomous mobile machine for blind spot coverage may include a security controller that determines a security coverage area based on data from a facility map indicating physical and functional representations of a facility and objects within the facility. The security controller may also determine a surveillance area based on the security coverage area. The security controller may also transmit, to an autonomous mobile machine, instructions for the autonomous mobile machine to deploy to the surveillance area and perform a security task at the surveillance area.

According to the present invention, a moving body capable of moving within a preset range of movement acquires an image from the environment surrounding the location of the moving body, and determines entry determination conditions for obtaining a result of an entry determination as to whether or not the moving body is allowed to enter a region identified by the location of the moving body and the image. A management terminal outputs the entry determination conditions and the image to an output device, and receives modification information relating to the entry determination conditions from an input device. A server uses the modification information received by the input device of the management terminal to perform learning, including updating of the entry determination conditions, thereby setting the movement range of the moving body, the movement of which is controlled in accordance with the entry determination result.

A map generation method and system for robot operation. The map generation method including receiving a map editing request for a specific floor among a plurality of floors of a building, providing an editing interface on a display unit of an electronic device in response to the map editing request, the editing interface including at least a part of a specific map corresponding to the specific floor, allocating at least one graphic object on the specific map based on editing information received from the electronic device, and updating the specific map on a cloud server based on completion of the allocating such that robots travel through the specific floor according to an attribute of the at least one graphic object.

A map generation method including receiving a map editing request for a specific floor among a plurality of floors of a building, providing an editing interface on a display unit of an electronic device in response to the map editing request, the editing interface including at least a part of a specific map corresponding to the specific floor, specifying at least one node group allocatable on the specific map based on first node rules, the first node rules corresponding to spatial characteristics of the specific floor, and performing a node placement process such that first nodes included among the at least one node group are placed on the specific map.

A robot service providing system includes a table monitoring terminal associated with one of a plurality of tables in a venue, a central control terminal, and a movable waiter robot. The central control terminal includes a communication interface, a display, an operation panel, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the display to display a screen including an image including a consumable item captured by a camera of the table monitoring terminal based on image data received by the communication interface, and control the communication interface to transmit a service instruction in response to a user operation on the operation panel. The movable waiter robot is configured to move to said one of the tables based on the service instruction.

An information processing apparatus includes a graph structure generation unit and a path planning unit. The graph structure generation unit generates a graph where a door on a passage has been replaced by a shunting line of a virtual robot. The path planning unit plans paths of a mobile body and the virtual mobile body such that the mobile body does not conflict with the virtual mobile body at an intersection between the passage and the shunting line when passing through the passage.

A method and apparatus for interworking between an autonomous delivery robot and a transportation infrastructure are disclosed. A method of operating a delivery robot service provider that manages a delivery robot, the method may include: generating delivery information in response to a delivery request from a user; assigning a delivery robot that is to perform the delivery request; transmitting the delivery information to the delivery robot; checking whether the delivery robot arrives at a transportation infrastructure located on a delivery route based on delivery status information transmitted from the delivery robot; and transmitting signal request information associated with the transportation infrastructure to a traffic information service provider that manages the transportation infrastructure to allow the delivery robot to use the transportation infrastructure.

A mobile device is allowed to efficiently guide a guide target. A generation unit generates a travel instruction plan for a mobile device configured to guide a guide target, on the basis of environment map information on a facility in which the mobile device guides the guide target, mobility performance information on the mobile device, and current information and guide task information on the mobile device. For example, the generation unit decides on an area where the mobile device needs to guide the guide target, on the basis of the guide task information. Furthermore, for example, the generation unit decides on a mobile device that guides the guide target, so as to minimize a traveling time of the mobile device required for guiding the guide target around the decided area. Furthermore, for example, in a case where the mobile device configured to guide the guide target includes two or more mobile devices, the travel instruction plan includes travel instruction plans for respective ones of the two or more mobile devices.

A method and system for navigating a robot 100 in a designated environment are provided herein. In an embodiment, the method comprises: selectively identifying reference features from a scale plan of the designated environment; generating a topometric map 178 of the designated environment, the topometric map 178 being associated with the identified reference features; generating an initial navigation path 176 of a local region 174 from the topometric map 178; as the robot 100 navigates along the initial navigation path 176 of the local region 174, detecting onsite reference features of the local region 174 that correspond to the identified reference features of the scale plan; and updating the topometric map 178 based on the correspondence to generate a regional path plan 188 to guide the robot's direction in the local region 174.