Method and System for Multi-Mode Coverage for an Autonomous Robot

Patent №

US 9,104,204

Granted

2015-08-11

Filed 2013

Owner

IROBOT CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13893762

A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to effectively cover a given area by operating in a plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as spiraling (45), or other modes are also used to increase effectiveness. In addition, a behavior based architecture is used to implement the control system, and various escape behaviors are used to ensure full coverage.

AI hardwareB25J 11/0085A47L 11/00B25J 9/1694G05D 1/0219G05D 1/0227G05D 1/0242G05D 1/0255G05D 1/0272+1 more

AI classification

AI hardware0.67
Planning0.35
Machine learning0.08
Knowledge representation0.07
Evolutionary computation0.02
Natural language0.01
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

IROBOT CORPORATION

assignment · 304130592

Assignors

JONES, JOSEPH L., MASS, PHILIP R.

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