Interfacing With a Mobile Telepresence Robot

• Main Authors: Pinter, Marco, Hanrahan, Kevin, Lai, Fuji, Chan, Michael, Sanchez, Daniel, Herzog, Cody, Whitney, Blair, Temby, Kelton, Jordan, Charles S, Farlow, Timothy Sturtevant, Wright, Tim, Kearns, Justin H, Wang, Yulun, Rauhut, Eben Christopher, Wong, Cheuk Wah, Ballantyne, James
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.12.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; COMPUTING; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; HAND TOOLS; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MANIPULATORS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; REGULATING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TRANSPORTING

A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an imaging system, and a mapping module. The mapping module may access a plan view map of an area and tags associated with the area. In various embodiments, each tag may include tag coordinates and tag information, which may include...