Robot control system and recording medium

• US 10,261,508 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2016
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Mizutani, Ryota, Thapliya, Roshan, Komatsuzaki, Kazunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Oh, Harry Y
• Application Number:
  US15/348,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20170357256A1
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• Field of Search: 700248
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 11/0005 Manipulators having means for high-level communication with users, e.g. speech generator, face recognition means
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0027 involving a plurality of vehicles, e.g. fleet or convoy travelling fleet control of land vehicles from a control room G05D1/0297; traffic control systems for road vehicles G08G1/00; for marine craft G08G3/00; for aircraft G08G5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0223 involving speed control of the vehicle vehicle fittings for automatically controlling, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an arbitrarily established velocity or maintaining speed at a particular velocity, as selected by the vehicle operator B60K31/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0297 by controlling means in a control room
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group

Abstract

A robot control system includes: plural robots; a receiving unit that receives a robot dispatch request from a user; a sensor that detects a state of the user who performs the robot dispatch request; and a controller that determines priority on the robot dispatch request based on the state of the user detected by the sensor, selects, in a case where plural robot dispatch requests are received, a robot to be dispatched among the plural robots in order of the priority on the robot dispatch requests, and dispatches the robot.

Claims

1. A robot control system comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU) programmed to

receive a robot dispatch request from a sensor;

determine, in response to receiving a plurality of robot dispatch requests, priority of the plurality of robot dispatch requests based on a sign of a body representing a psychological state of a user;

select a robot among a plurality of robots in order of the priority based on a task of the user; and

dispatch the robot selected among the plurality of robots.

2. The robot control system according to claim 1,

wherein the CPU determines the priority by specifying at least one of a status, a task, and the psychological state of the user based on the state of the user who performs the robot dispatch request.

3. The robot control system according to claim 2,

wherein, in selecting the robot, the CPU specifies the task of the user with reference to a schedule table of the user.

4. The robot control system according to claim 2,

wherein the CPU selects a robot having a highest probability among use probabilities of all of the plurality of robots as the robot to be dispatched.

5. The robot control system according to claim 2,

wherein the CPU selects a robot having a highest probability among use probabilities of all of the plurality of robots with reference to a table storing values of the use probabilities of the plurality of robots and the task correlated with each other, the values of the use probabilities being corrected based on a robot use history of the user.

6. The robot control system according to claim 1,

wherein, in dispatching the robot, the CPU directs a route of the robot in accordance with information acquired by the sensor such that the robot passes through or avoids a predetermined point.

7. The robot control system according to claim 1,

wherein, in the dispatching the robot, the CPU instructs the robot to pass through a predetermined point with different speed in accordance with information acquired by the sensor.

9. The robot control system according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of robots includes a plurality of types of robots,

the CPU determines the priority on a type of the plurality of robots based on the state of the field that is related to an order of shortest movement distance of the robot and determines the type of the robots to be dispatched.

8. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

determining priority on a plurality of robot dispatch requests by a user based on a state of the user performing the robot dispatch request received from a sensor, and

dispatching a robot by selecting the robot having highest probability among a use probability of all of a plurality of robots to be dispatched among the plurality of robots that are waiting for a dispatch order.