Mobile robot system

• Main Authors: PACK, ROBERT TODD, WON, CHIKYUNG, SHAMLIAN, STEVEN V, ROSENSTEIN, MICHAEL T, FARLOW, TIMOTHY S, HALLORAN, MICHAEL, CHIAPPETTA, MARK
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.08.2014
• Subjects: CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; CONTROLLING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; HAND TOOLS; MANIPULATORS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; REGULATING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TRANSPORTING

A method of operating a mobile robot (100), the method comprising: maneuvering the robot (100) about a scene (10); emitting light onto the scene (10) about the robot (100); capturing images of the scene (10) along a drive direction (F) of the robot (100), the images comprising at least one of (a) a three-dimensional depth image, (b) an active illumination image, and (c) an ambient illumination image; receiving sensor data (1601) indicative of the scene (10), the sensor data (1601) comprising the images; communicating the sensor data (1601) to a cloud computing service (1620) that processes the received sensor data (1601) and communicates a process resultant (1607, 1609) to the robot (100), the process resultant (1607, 1609) comprising a map (1607) or a model (1609) of the scene (10); and maneuvering the robot (100) in the scene (10) based on the received process resultant (1607, 1609).