G05D1/639

ROBOT, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR THE SAME
20240345597 · 2024-10-17 ·

A robot is able to close a door when a mobile base of the robot cannot move to a front face side of the door. A tool is provided on an arm part of the robot and the tool is hooked on or holds door. A drives the mobile base and/or the arm part in a situation where the mobile base is on a back face side of the opened door, to hook the tool on the door or to make the tool hold the door, drives the mobile base and/or the arm part to move the tool hooked on or holding the door in a direction in which the door is closed and thus to decrease an opening angle of the door, and drives the mobile base and/or the arm part to push the front face of the door with the decreased opening angle.

AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING DEVICE AND AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD
20240385624 · 2024-11-21 ·

One aspect of an autonomous traveling device includes: an information adding unit that adds, as positional information of a virtual obstacle, to map information, positional information of a virtual obstacle that passes through a rear side of the device with respect to a starting point of a travel route and continuously extends to a front side on both right and left sides of the device itself; and a route search unit that searches for a travel route based on the map information to which the positional information of the virtual obstacle is added.

AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING DEVICE AND AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD
20240385624 · 2024-11-21 ·

One aspect of an autonomous traveling device includes: an information adding unit that adds, as positional information of a virtual obstacle, to map information, positional information of a virtual obstacle that passes through a rear side of the device with respect to a starting point of a travel route and continuously extends to a front side on both right and left sides of the device itself; and a route search unit that searches for a travel route based on the map information to which the positional information of the virtual obstacle is added.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
20240427344 · 2024-12-26 · ·

The present disclosure provides an information processing device including an acquisition unit, a processing unit and an output unit.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
20240427344 · 2024-12-26 · ·

The present disclosure provides an information processing device including an acquisition unit, a processing unit and an output unit.

MAPPING STASIS FOR MOBILE CLEANING ROBOT
20240419173 · 2024-12-19 ·

A mobile cleaning robot configured to clean an environment. The mobile cleaning robot can include a body and a drivetrain operable to move the body within the environment. The robot can include a sensor connected to the body and configured to generate a sensor signal based on interactions between the mobile cleaning robot and the environment. The robot can include an image capture device connected to the body and configured to generate an image stream based on an optical filed of view of the image capture device. The robot can include a controller connected to the body and configured to determine whether the mobile cleaning robot is in a stasis condition based on the image stream and the sensor signal. The controller can also update a map of the environment based on the stasis determination.

Exit path determination for a robotic work tool

A robotic work tool system (200) comprising a robotic work tool (100), the robotic work tool (100) being configured to determine (410) that the robotic work tool (100) has entered a state of limited movement; determine (420) an exit path; and exit (430) the state of limited movement by navigating the exit path.

Exit path determination for a robotic work tool

A robotic work tool system (200) comprising a robotic work tool (100), the robotic work tool (100) being configured to determine (410) that the robotic work tool (100) has entered a state of limited movement; determine (420) an exit path; and exit (430) the state of limited movement by navigating the exit path.

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

An autonomous mobile robot and an operating method thereof are provided. The autonomous mobile robot includes a movement module, a detection module, a control module and an interaction module. The control module includes a determination unit and a navigation unit. The determination unit determines whether there is an obstacle near or on a predetermined path of the autonomous mobile robot according to the environment information. When the obstacle is on the predetermined path, the navigation unit decides an obstacle avoidance strategy according to the environment information and the type of the obstacle. The obstacle avoidance strategy at least includes moving along a side path, stopping aside to yield, moving backward and stopping at a yielding point to yield, and detouring. When the obstacle is near or on the predetermined path, the interaction module performs an interaction action according to the obstacle avoidance strategy and the type of the obstacle.

Floor plan repair system for autonomous mobile devices

Systems and techniques for generation, storage, and updating of common floor plans across shared autonomous mobile devices. The systems and techniques include extraction of semantically meaningful data from one or more occupancy maps to provide a floorplan to a user that aligns with the user's understanding of the space using heuristics and machine learning techniques. The techniques also enable repair of damaged or inconsistent floor plan geometries through the use of polygon triangulation and graph cuts.