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Robotic Robot Swarm - Visual control of a swarm of robotic robots

總結

intelligent, image-based navigation method, in which several cleaning robots in the swarm divide the space between each other during the cleaning process. The method uses inexpensive camera sensors with panoramic optics for navigation.

技術優勢

Any number of robots
Flexible and robust process
Controllable software complexity
Inexpensive camera sensors

技術應用

Hotels, offices, retirement homes, hospitals, private use

詳細技術說明

Since the swarm robots jointly create a “topological“ map without position information, they do not have to agree on a common coordinate system. The division of the clearance is self- organized by an advanced form of simple “obstacle tracking“ in which each robot drives snugly to real obstacles or to track sections previously driven by any of the robots. With this ride strategy, the lanes adapt perfectly to the spatial conditions, guaranteeing seamless cleaning with low multiple coverage. The robots communicate only indirectly with each other through the common map construction; a complex planning and coordination with each other is not necessary. A protocol for the exchange of map data via WLAN was developed.

合作類型

Licensing

申請日期

13/05/2015 00:00:00

申請號碼

DE20151006014 20150513

分類

- international:
G01B11/24; G01C11/00; G01C21/04; G01C22/00; G01C7/04; G01S17/89; G05D1/02; G06T7/20

- cooperative:

A47L9/28; G01C21/206; G05D1/0219; G05D1/024; G05D1/0248; G05D1/0272; G05D1/0274; G05D1/0297; G06F16/29; G06F16/5866; G06K9/00805; G06K9/209; G06K9/6202; G06K9/78; G05D1/0246; G05D2201/0215; G06K2209/21; G06T3/60; H04N7/183

其他

Patent application

ID號碼

4267

國家/地區

德國