US 11,235,344 B2Granted

Autonomous painting systems and related methods

AssigneeRevolutioNice Inc.

InventorsSreenivas Raman, Brian Jennings, Ryan J. Giovacchini, Elie Cherbaka, Thomas C. Slater, TianHao Ye

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Abstract

An automated mobile paint robot, according to particular embodiments, comprises: (1) a wheeled base; (2) at least one paint sprayer; (3) at least one pump; (4) a vision system; (5) a GPS navigation system; and (5) a computer controller configured to: (A) generate a room painting plan using one or more inputs from the GPS navigation system, vision system, etc.; (B) control movement of the automated mobile paint robot across a support surface: (C) use the vision system to position the wheeled base in a suitable position from which to paint a desired area using the at least one paint sprayer; and (D) use the at least one pump to activate the at least one paint sprayer to paint a swath (e.g., swatch) of paint from the suitable position.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An autonomous mobile spraying robot comprising:

a base portion;
a plurality of wheels disposed on the base portion and configured to support the autonomous mobile spraying robot adjacent a support surface;
a sprayer support system disposed on the based portion comprising
a first vertical support that extends from the base portion and is perpendicular to the support surface;
and
a second vertical support configured to slide relative to the first vertical support in a telescoping manner;
and
a spray tip disposed adjacent the second vertical support and configured to translate vertically along a track defined by the second vertical support;
and
a computer controller configured for:
causing the autonomous mobile spraying robot to spray a vertical swath of a wall by:
activating the spray tip to spray along a vertical path a desired speed by causing vertical motion of the spray tip relative to the base portion by:
causing the second vertical support to slide vertically relative to the first vertical support at a first speed to a height that corresponds to a height of the wall;
and
causing the spray tip to slide relative to the second vertical support at a second speed such that the first speed and second speed are synchronized to the desired speed and the spray tip travels a linear path from a base of the second vertical support adjacent a base of the wall to a top portion of the second vertical support adjacent a top portion of the wall.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/185,682Filed 9 Nov 2018 · continuation
Priority: 17 Jun 2015
Published: US 2019/0076868 A114 Mar 2019
Granted: 1 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

B05B 12/122
Responsive to conditions of ambient medium or target, e.g. humidity, temperature position or movement of the target relative to the spray…
B05B 13/005
Machines or plants for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces of objects or other work by spraying, not covered by groups…
B05B 13/0431
The spray heads being moved during spraying operation: with spray heads moved by robots or articulated arms, e.g. for applying liquid or other…
B25J 5/007
Manipulators mounted on wheels or on carriages: mounted on wheels

Family

Application62/180,603Us provisional application · filed 17 Jun 2015
Application15/185,465Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Jun 2016
Application62/430,155Us provisional application · filed 5 Dec 2016
Application62/430,186Us provisional application · filed 5 Dec 2016
Application62/431,765Us provisional application · filed 8 Dec 2016
Application62/431,788Us provisional application · filed 8 Dec 2016
Application62/461,442Us provisional application · filed 21 Feb 2017
Application62/515,036Us provisional application · filed 5 Jun 2017
Application62/530,686Us provisional application · filed 10 Jul 2017
Application15/832,505Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Dec 2017
US 2019/0076868 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Mar 2019
US 10,124,359 B2Parent of this continuation
Application15/832,505Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2018/0093289 A1Published application
US 11,235,344 B2This patent

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