Mobile robot and method of controlling the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorWonhee Lee
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Abstract
A method may be provided for controlling a mobile robot. This may include receiving user input including a predetermined service request by the mobile robot, receiving an article to be served, by the mobile robot, searching for a user, analyzing a gesture of the user, and extracting a serving position, by the mobile robot, analyzing an image of the serving position and extracting a distance and height of the serving position, moving the mobile robot to the serving position and lifting the served article to be served, to a height of the serving position, and putting down the article to be served at the serving position by horizontally moving the article to be served to the serving position.
Claims16
A method of controlling a mobile robot having at least one tray for accommodating an article to be served therein, the method comprising:
- receiving user input including a predetermined service request by the mobile robot;
- receiving the article to be served in a container, by the mobile robot;
- searching for a user, analyzing a gesture of the user, and extracting a table as a serving position the user wants to serve, by the mobile robot;
- analyzing an image of the serving position and extracting a distance and height of the serving position;
- moving the mobile robot to the serving position and moving the at least one tray in upward and downward directions to lift the article to be served to the height of the serving position;
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- putting down the article to be served by a plurality of rollers to be rotated to horizontally move the article to be served, and to put the article at the serving position.
A mobile robot comprising:
- a body forming an outer shape;
- a driving part configured to move the body;
- an image sensor configured to capture an image of a traveling area and to generate image information;
- at least one tray configured to support an article to be served;
- a plurality of rollers configured to horizontally move the article to be served and to push the article to be served;
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- a controller configured to receive order information of the article to be served, and to control the tray to search for a user, to analyze a gesture of the user, to extract a table as a serving position the user wants to serve, and to move the at least one tray in upward and downward directions to lift, the article to be served to the height of the serving position and to put down the article to be served by the plurality of rollers to be rotated to horizontally move the article to be served, and to put the article at the serving position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.