Modular robotic system and associated method of automatically determining configuration and control therefor
AssigneeInsight Scientific International (Shanghai) Ltd.
InventorLin Guo
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Abstract
Modular building blocks for building a robotic system, and the method of building the robotic system using the building blocks, are presented. The building block includes a chassis having a first end and a second end, a first connector positioned closer to the second end than the first end of the chassis, either a second connector or a rotational actuator positioned closer to the first end than the second end of the chassis and configured to couple with the first connector, a signal interface on a surface of the chassis, the signal interface including hardware and circuitry for transferring and receiving signals from and to the building block, and a power and control interface on the chassis for receiving power for the building block.
Claims7
A building block for a robotic system, comprising:
- a chassis having a first end and a second end;
- a connector positioned closer to the second end than the first end of the chassis;
- a rotational actuator positioned closer to the first end than the second end of the chassis and configured to couple with the connector;
- a signal interface on a surface of the chassis, the signal interface including hardware and circuitry for transferring and receiving signals from and to the building block;
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- a power and control interface on the chassis for receiving power for the building block.
A building block for a robotic system, comprising:
- a chassis having a first end and a second end;
- a first connector positioned closer to the second end than the first end of the chassis;
- a second connector positioned closer to the first end than the second end of the chassis and configured to couple with the first connector;
- a signal interface on a surface of the chassis, the signal interface including hardware and circuitry for transferring and receiving signals from and to the building block;
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- a power and control interface on the chassis for receiving power for the building block.
A computer-implemented method of planning a robotic system using building blocks, comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of building blocks, wherein each of the building blocks has:
- a chassis having a first end and a second end;
- a first connector positioned closer to the second end than the first end of the chassis;
- either a rotational actuator or a second connector positioned closer to the first end than the second end of the chassis and configured to couple with the first connector;
- a signal interface on a surface of the chassis, the signal interface including hardware and circuitry for transferring and receiving signals from and to the building block;
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- a power and control interface on the chassis for receiving power for the building block;
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- determining a specification for a robotic system including kinematic specifications and dynamic specifications;
- determining type and number of building blocks for a configuration of the specification;
- verifying that the configuration satisfies the kinematic specifications;
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- verifying that the configuration satisfies the dynamic specifications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.