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Mobile robot system

  • US 9,902,069 B2
  • Filed: 02/19/2015
  • Issued: 02/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a robot, the method comprising:

  • maneuvering the robot about a scene;

    capturing images of the scene along a drive direction of the robot, the images comprising at least one of a three-dimensional depth image, an active illumination image, or an ambient illumination image;

    receiving sensor data indicative of the scene, the sensor data comprising the images;

    communicating the sensor data from the robot to a cloud computing service that processes the received sensor data into a process resultant, the process resultant comprising an indoor or outside street view of the scene comprising reference locations marked thereon;

    receiving the process resultant at the robot from the cloud computing service; and

    maneuvering the robot in the scene based on the received process resultant,wherein the cloud computing service further provides a 2-D map to the robot, the cloud computing service computing the 2-D map from a 3-D map, wherein the 2-D map indicates obstacles or hazards to the robot.

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