Mobile robot with a head-based movement mapping scheme
AssigneeIntouch Technologies, Inc.
InventorsYulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Keith P. Laby, Jonathan Southard, Marco Pinter, Brian Miller
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Abstract
A robotic system that includes a mobile robot and a remote input device. The input device may be a joystick that is used to move a camera and a mobile platform of the robot. The system may operate in a mode where the mobile platform moves in a camera reference coordinate system. The camera reference coordinate system is fixed to a viewing image provided by the camera so that movement of the robot corresponds to a direction viewed on a screen. This prevents disorientation during movement of the robot if the camera is panned across a viewing area.
Claims14
A mobile robot system that is controlled through an input device, comprising:
- a robot that has a camera and a mobile platform with a drive vector that is mapped to one of a plurality of different coordinate systems;
- and,
- a remote station coupled to the robot via a network, the remote station including an input device that causes movement of said camera and said mobile platform within the one of said plurality of different coordinate systems.
A method for controlling a robot that has a camera, comprising:
- receiving a user input at a remote station via a user input device;
- mapping a drive vector of a mobile platform of the robot to one a plurality of different coordinate systems in which the robot can move;
- moving the robot within one of the plurality of different coordinate systems based on the user input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.