Navigation Portals for a Remote Vehicle Control User Interface
First Claim
1. An operator control unit having a user interface that allows a user to identify a mode of display and interaction that narrows the user'"'"'s options for his next interaction with the user interface.
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Abstract
An operator control unit has a user interface that allows a user to identify a mode of display and interaction that narrows the user'"'"'s options for his next interaction with the user interface. The user interface utilizes portals to transition between environments such as indoors to outdoors, outdoors to indoors, different rooms of a building, and different floors of a building, the portals representing one or more of stairways and doors, and being used in remote vehicle path planning as waypoints that may require execution of predetermined behaviors.
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- 1. An operator control unit having a user interface that allows a user to identify a mode of display and interaction that narrows the user'"'"'s options for his next interaction with the user interface.
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3. A navigation portal for a remote vehicle control user interface, the navigation portal being located in a map and facilitating transition of the remote vehicle between a first environment located in the map and a second environment located in the map, the navigation portal representing one of a stairway and a door,
wherein, when the remote vehicle is located in the first environment and an operator of the remote vehicle uses the remote vehicle control interface to designate a destination for the remote vehicle in the second environment, the remote vehicle plans and traverses a path to the destination via the navigation portal.
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15. A method for mapping and navigating with a remote vehicle using a remote vehicle control user interface and navigation portals, the method comprising:
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using GPS for navigation in an outdoor environment; using a laser range finder and SLAM for navigation and mapping in an indoor environment; creating a navigation portal when the remote vehicle switches from an indoor environment to an outdoor environment, the navigation portal including information regarding the environment switch; creating a navigation portal when the remote vehicle switches from an outdoor environment to an indoor environment, the navigation portal including information regarding the environment switch; using a door opening behavior when a door is encountered during navigation and mapping; creating a navigation portal when a door is encountered during navigation and mapping, the navigation portal including instructions to implement a door opening behavior; using a stair climbing or stair descending behavior when a stairway is encountered during navigation and mapping; and creating a navigation portal when a stairway is encountered during navigation and mapping, the navigation portal including instructions to implement a stair climbing or stair descending behavior. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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