METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMATICALLY MOVING ROBOT

• US 20200133302A1
• Filed: 11/02/2017
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vorwerk & Company Interholding Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Vorwerk & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Vorwerk & Company Interholding Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Vorwerk & Company KG)
• Inventors: HILLEN, Lorenz
• Application Number:
  US16/347,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20200133302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 11/0085 Cleaning
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0212 with means for defining a desired trajectory involving a plurality of land vehicles G05D1/0287
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/024 in combination with a laser lasers per se H01S
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0272 comprising means for registering the travel distance, e.g. revolutions of wheels measuring distance traversed on the ground by vehicles, e.g. using odometers G01C22/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0274 using mapping information stored in a memory device navigation using map-matching G01C21/30
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0282 generated in a local control room

Abstract

A method for operating an automatically moving robot, wherein a map of the surroundings of the robot is generated using measurement data captured within the surroundings, and a control command is generated using the generated map, the current position of the robot within the surroundings, and a determined behavior of the robot. The robot is moved using the generated control command, and data which is relevant to the navigation of the robot is at least partly transmitted to an external computing device for processing. In order to reduce the computing capacity and/or storage capacity required within the robot, the external computing device determines a desired behavior of the robot as the basis for the control command based on the map and the current position of the robot.

Claims

1. A method for operating an automatically moving robot (1), wherein a map (2) of an environment of the robot (1) is generated based on measurement data recorded within the environment, wherein a control command is generated using the generated map (2), a current position of the robot (1) within the environment and a determined behavior of the robot, wherein the robot (1) moves using the generated control command, and wherein data relevant for navigating the robot (1) are at least partially transmitted to an external computing device (3) for processing, wherein the external computing device (3) determines a desired behavior of the robot (1) as the basis for the control command based upon the map (2) and the current position of the robot (1), wherein a behavior determining device (6) decides when a status of the robot (1) and/or a behavior currently shown by the robot (1) must be changed, wherein the external computing device (3) transmits information about the determined behavior to the robot (1), and the robot (1) generates a control command based on the determined behavior.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the external computing device (3) generates the map (2) of the environment.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the robot (1) records measurement data of the environment with at least one sensor (4), and transmits these measurement data to the external computing device (3) for generating the map (2).

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein measurement data of the environment are transmitted to the external computing device (3), and that the external computing device (3) checks the transmitted measurement data for completeness and/or plausibility and/or converts them into a format suitable for generating the map (2).

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the measurement data for generating the map (2) are recorded via distance measurement and/or odometer and/or collision detection.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation-relevant data are processed on a cloud server and/or a mobile communication device and/or a device connected with the robot via a WLAN and/or a WLAN router as the external computing device (3).

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein a user of the robot (1) initiates an input for the external computing device (3) by means of an input device (5) communicatively linked with the external computing device (3), in particular by means of a mobile communication device.

7. (canceled)

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10. A system comprised of an automatically moving robot (1), an external computing device (3) communicatively linked with the robot (1), and at least one sensor (4) for recording measurement data within an environment of the robot (1), wherein the robot (1) has a device for navigating the robot (1) within the environment, wherein the external computing device (3) is set up to process data relevant for navigating the robot (1), wherein the external computing device (3) has a behavior determining device (6) set up to use a generated map (2) of the environment and a current position of the robot (1) to determine a desired behavior of the robot (1) as the basis for a control command for controlling the robot (1), wherein the behavior determining device (6) decides when a status of the robot (1) and/or a behavior currently shown by the robot (1) must be changed, and wherein the external computing device (3) is set up to transmit information about the determined behavior to the robot (1), wherein the robot (1) is set up to generate a control command based on the determined behavior.