AUTONOMOUS ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20130211591A1
• Filed: 08/15/2012
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: SUH, Young Ho, Kim, Hyun
• Application Number:
  US13/586,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20130211591A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/258
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/161 Hardware, e.g. neural networks, fuzzy logic, interfaces, processor

Abstract

Disclosed are a robot and a method of controlling the robot, and more particularly are an autonomous robot and a method of controlling the autonomous robot. The autonomous robot includes a sensor for detecting a change of a situation; an actuator; and a controller for controlling the actuator based on information input through the sensor, wherein the controller controls the actuator in accordance with mode information including an act abstraction layer which defines a unit act by combining functions of the sensor and the actuator.

Claims

1. An autonomous robot comprising:

a sensor for detecting a change of a situation;

an actuator; and

a controller for controlling the actuator based on information input through the sensor,

wherein the controller controls the actuator in accordance with mode information including an act abstraction layer which defines a unit act by combining functions of the sensor and the actuator.

2. The autonomous robot of claim 1, wherein the mode information further includes a device abstraction layer which defines a unit function of the sensor and the actuator.

3. The autonomous robot of claim 1, wherein the unit act is defined in accordance with an Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rule which controls the actuator according to the situation based on the information input through the sensor.

4. The autonomous robot of claim 2, wherein the unit act includes a plurality of ECA rules.

5. The autonomous robot of claim 1, wherein the act abstraction layer includes a tree structure in which the unit acts are combined.

6. The autonomous robot of claim 1, wherein the act abstraction layer includes information about a time series order of the unit act.

7. The autonomous robot of claim 1, wherein the mode information is defined according to the situation.

8. The autonomous robot of claim 1, wherein a number of pieces of the mode information is two or more.

9. The autonomous robot of claim 8, wherein the controller transits or coordinates the mode information based on coordinator information according to the situation.

10. The autonomous robot of claim 9, wherein the coordinator information is defined in accordance with an ECA rule.

11. A method of controlling an autonomous robot comprising a sensor for detecting a change of a situation and an actuator, the method comprising:

receiving input of a detected change from the sensor;

determining a situation based on the detected change; and

controlling the actuator in accordance with mode information including an act abstraction layer which defines a unit act by combining functions of the sensor and the actuator according to the determined situation.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the mode information further includes a device abstraction layer which defines a unit function of the sensor and the actuator.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the unit act is defined in accordance with an Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rule which controls the actuator according to the situation based on the information input through the sensor.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the unit act includes a plurality of ECA rules.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the act abstraction layer includes a tree structure in which the unit acts are combined.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the act abstraction layer includes information on a time series order of the unit act.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the mode information is defined according to the situation.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein a number of pieces of the mode information is two or more.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the controlling of the actuator further comprises transiting or coordinating the mode information based on coordinator information according to the situation.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the coordinator information is defined in accordance with an ECA rule.