RESTRICTING MOVEMENT OF A MOBILE ROBOT
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Abstract
A robot includes a body that is movable relative to a surface one or more measurement devices within the body to output information based on an orientation of the body at an initial location on the surface, and a controller within the body to determine an orientation of the body based on the information and to restrict movement of the body to an area by preventing movement of the body beyond a barrier that is based on the orientation of the body and the initial location.
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40 Claims
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1-20. -20. (canceled)
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21. A robot comprising:
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a drive to move the robot across a floor surface; a user input device operable to initiate defining of a virtual barrier beyond which movement of the robot is restricted; a controller configured to execute operations comprising defining the barrier in response to operation of the user input device to initiate defining of the barrier, restricting movement of the robot beyond the virtual barrier, and transmitting, to a remote computing device, a map representing at least a portion of the floor surface and indicative of a location of the virtual barrier to cause the remote computing device to display a representation of the map and a representation of the virtual barrier. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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