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Building-integrated mobile robot

  • US 10,414,052 B2
  • Filed: 02/06/2017
  • Issued: 09/17/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mobile robot, comprising:

  • a motorized base configured to move the mobile robot along a patrol route within a building;

    a wireless transceiver configured to communicatively couple to one or more hardware systems of the building;

    a housing body storing one or more sensors configured to detect an individual within a proximity of the patrol route; and

    a controller configured to;

    configure the mobile robot to monitor the detected individual to determine if the detected individual violates one or more security policies; and

    in response to determining that the detected individual violates the one or more security policies;

    selecting a hardware system of the building external to the mobile robot based on

         1) the one or more security policies that are violated by the detected individual and

         2) a location of the detected individual within the building;

    communicatively coupling, via the wireless transceiver, to the selected hardware system;

    performing, using the selected hardware system, one or more first security operations selected based on the one or more security policies that are violated by the detected individual; and

    performing, by the mobile robot, one or more second security operations selected based on a result of the one or more first security operations performed using the selected hardware system, wherein at least one of the second security operations is to change a state of the selected hardware system or of a second hardware system of the building.

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