COMPANION ROBOT FOR PERSONAL INTERACTION
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Abstract
A mobile robot guest for interacting with a human resident performs a room-traversing search procedure prior to interacting with the resident, and may verbally query whether the resident being sought is present. Upon finding the resident, the mobile robot may facilitate a teleconferencing session with a remote third party, or interact with the resident in a number of ways. For example, the robot may carry on a dialogue with the resident, reinforce compliance with medication or other schedules, etc. In addition, the robot incorporates safety features for preventing collisions with the resident; and the robot may audibly announce and/or visibly indicate its presence in order to avoid becoming a dangerous obstacle. Furthermore, the mobile robot behaves in accordance with an integral privacy policy, such that any sensor recording or transmission must be approved by the resident.
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9 Claims
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1-8. -8. (canceled)
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9. A method for handling navigation commands for remotely controlling a robot, comprising:
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receiving a selection of room identities corresponding to available room identities in a household; driving among rooms of different room identity until the robot captures topological adjacency among room identities and correlates each room identity of a household with a received room identity marker; displaying room identity markers corresponding to available room identities for a household, the room identity markers being displayed according to topological adjacency of corresponding room identities and being displayed as a part of a graphical depiction of a house; receiving a selection of a room identity marker via a user interface linked to the displaying room identity markers as a first navigation command representative of a remote user'"'"'s selection of a room identity marker; recognizing a present room; and driving among rooms of different room identity according to the first navigation command until the robot recognizes being within a room having a room identity corresponding to the selected room identity marker.
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