Interactions between a vehicle and a being encountered by the vehicle
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1. A method of operating an autonomous mobile robot in close proximity to a being, comprising:
- operating a drive system of the mobile robot to autonomously move within an environment;
providing a communication system for enabling communication between the mobile robot and the being; and
providing a controller configured to;
control operation of the mobile robot, the operation including autonomously moving the mobile robot within the environment using the drive system to perform at least one task;
detect, within received sensor data, a being within the environment that is in substantially close proximity to the mobile robot;
perform a temporal analysis on the received sensor data to generate a predicted course of the detected being;
determine, based at least in part on the predicted course of the detected being, an estimated time of arrival (ETA) of the mobile robot to a future encounter with the detected being, wherein the future encounter comprises the mobile robot and the predicted course of the detected being both being located within a common region;
generate and transmit, based at least in part on the ETA of the mobile robot to the future encounter, an acknowledgement message from the mobile robot to the detected being, wherein the acknowledgement message indicates that the mobile robot has identified the future encounter;
determine one or more modification actions to cause an adjustment in the future encounter; and
generate and transmit an announcement message from the mobile robot to the detected being, wherein the announcement message is indicative of the one or more determined modification actions and is transmitted prior to the occurrence of the future encounter.
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Abstract
Methods, systems and devices are provided involving at least one vehicle and at least one being such as a person. In one method, the vehicle is operated to autonomously move within an environment. The vehicle is also operated to autonomously acknowledge presence of the being approximately when the vehicle encounters the being during the moving of the vehicle.
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1. A method of operating an autonomous mobile robot in close proximity to a being, comprising:
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operating a drive system of the mobile robot to autonomously move within an environment; providing a communication system for enabling communication between the mobile robot and the being; and providing a controller configured to; control operation of the mobile robot, the operation including autonomously moving the mobile robot within the environment using the drive system to perform at least one task; detect, within received sensor data, a being within the environment that is in substantially close proximity to the mobile robot; perform a temporal analysis on the received sensor data to generate a predicted course of the detected being; determine, based at least in part on the predicted course of the detected being, an estimated time of arrival (ETA) of the mobile robot to a future encounter with the detected being, wherein the future encounter comprises the mobile robot and the predicted course of the detected being both being located within a common region; generate and transmit, based at least in part on the ETA of the mobile robot to the future encounter, an acknowledgement message from the mobile robot to the detected being, wherein the acknowledgement message indicates that the mobile robot has identified the future encounter; determine one or more modification actions to cause an adjustment in the future encounter; and generate and transmit an announcement message from the mobile robot to the detected being, wherein the announcement message is indicative of the one or more determined modification actions and is transmitted prior to the occurrence of the future encounter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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