Developing system of re-configurable modularized robot

• US 20080046121A1
• Filed: 08/17/2006
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Innovati Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Innovati Incorporated
• Inventors: Lee, Ton-Han, Pao, Wei-Shen, Chang, Chien-I
• Application Number:
  US11/505,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20080046121A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/245
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1617 Cellular, reconfigurable manipulator, e.g. cebot
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/33342 Master slave, supervisor, front end and slave processor, hierarchical structure
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/40304 Modular structure

Abstract

A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot is provided, and it includes a single board computer (SBC) which includes a communication interface used to receive, transmit and download the plurality of commands and responds in the communication of the run-time man-machine interface; and a master micro controller connects with the interface; a transmission unit, it is a three-wire signal transmission center, which is used to transmit the command and signal; and at least one module connects with the transmission unit, and includes a slave micro controllers and a functional unit, the slave micro controller and the functional unit used to execute the command which comes from the master micro controller.

Claims

1. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot, comprising:

a single board computer, including;

a communication interface, used to receive and transmit a plurality of commands; and

a master micro-controller connecting with said interface to execute said plurality of commands;

a transmission unit connected to said single board computer to transmit said plurality of commands and a plurality of event signals in dual way, wherein said transmission unit is a three-wire data transmission interface; and

at least one peripheral module connecting to said transmission unit, including;

a slave micro-controller, and

a functional element connecting to said slave micro-controller.

2. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said communication interface is a universal serial port and controlled by a universal serial port controller, to control the transmission of said plurality of commands and said plurality of event signals.

3. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said communication interface is anyone of the IEEE 1394, the IR, the peripheral interface bus, and the serial interface bus.

4. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of commands are high-level language and edited and compiled by a software of a computer, said plurality of commands are downloaded to said master micro-controller via said universal serial port.

5. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said transmission unit is a command bus.

6. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 5, wherein said command bus includes a data line, a clock line, and an event line.

7. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is an output functional element, and is anyone of the Light Emitting Diode, the Liquid Crystal Display, the Organic Light Emitting Diode, the Vacuum Fluorescent Display and the Seven-Segment Display.

8. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is an input functional element, and is anyone of the keyboard, the joystick, the knob, the touch panel, and the mouse.

9. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a motive power element, and is anyone of the motor, the proportional-integral-derivative, and the servo driver.

10. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a network element, and is anyone of the Ethernet, the Web-server, and the X-ten.

11. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a storage element, and is anyone of the flash memory, the electrically erasable and programmable read only memory, and the digital security card.

12. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a vocal element, and is anyone of the speech element, the voice recognition element, the text-to-speech element, and the synthesizer element.

13. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is an image element, and is anyone of the image recognition element and the color recognition element.

14. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a Fuzzy algorithm element.

15. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a communication element, and is anyone of the radio frequency identification element, the infrared element, the radio frequency element, the infrared data association element, the Zigbee element, the RS-232, the I²C, the general packet radio service element, the modem, the universal serial bus, the bluetooth element, the code division multiple access element, the global system for mobile communication element, the RS 422/485, and the telecom.

16. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a sensor element, and is anyone of the temperature sensor, the press sensor, the motion sensor, the humidity sensor, the ultrasonic ranger finder, and the IR ranger finder.

17. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element is a navigation element, and is anyone of the global positioning system, the accelerator, the electronic compass element, and the gyro.

18. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said functional element and is anyone of the AM/FM radio element, the relay, the analog to digital converter, and the time piece.

19. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said peripheral module further comprises a switch used to identify the identification code of each said peripheral module.

20. A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of event signals are made from said peripheral module and sent back to said single board computer.