Mobile correctional facility robots
AssigneeGlobal Tel*Link Corporation
InventorStephen Hodge
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to mobile correctional facility robots and systems and methods for coordinating mobile correctional facility robots to perform various tasks in a correctional facility. The mobile correctional facility robots can be used to perform many of the tasks traditionally assigned to correctional facility guards to help reduce the number of guards needed in any given correctional facility. When cooperation is employed among multiple mobile correctional facility robots to execute tasks, a central controller can be used to coordinate the efforts of the multiple robots to improve the performance of the overall system of robots as compared to the performance of the robots when working in uncoordinated effort to execute the tasks.
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A method for coordinating a plurality of mobile correctional facility robots comprising a first mobile correctional facility robot, a second mobile correctional facility robot, a third mobile correctional facility robot, and a fourth mobile correctional facility robot in a correctional facility, the method comprising:
- receiving first status information from the first mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the first mobile correctional facility robot is of a first type and wherein the status information is associated with a task to be performed;
- identifying, based on the first status information, the second mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the second mobile correctional facility robot is of a second type;
- assigning, to the second mobile correctional facility robot, the task to be performed;
- receiving second status information from the third mobile correctional facility robot;
- receiving third status information from the fourth mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the third status information is associated with a second task to be performed;
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- assigning, based on the second status information, the second task to the third mobile correctional facility robot.
A mobile central controller robot for operating within a correctional facility comprising:
- a plurality of actuators, wherein the plurality of actuators is based on a type of the mobile central controller robot;
- a sensor array;
- a transceiver configured to communicate with a plurality of mobile correctional facility robots comprising a first mobile correctional facility robot, a second mobile correctional facility robot, a third mobile correctional facility robot, and a fourth mobile correctional facility robot;
- a memory comprising computer program instructions;
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- a hardware processing unit configured to execute the computer program instructions to perform operations comprising:
- receiving first status information from the first mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the first mobile correctional facility robot is of a first type and wherein the status information is associated with a task to be performed;
- identifying, based on the first status information, the second mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the second mobile correctional facility robot is of a second type;
- assigning, to the second mobile correctional facility robot, the task to be performed;
- receiving second status information from the third mobile correctional facility robot;
- receiving third status information from the fourth mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the third status information is associated with a second task to be performed;
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- assigning, based on the second status information, the second task to the third mobile correctional facility robot.
A method for coordinating a plurality of mobile correctional facility robots comprising a first mobile correctional robot, a second mobile correctional facility robot, and a third mobile correctional facility robot, in a correctional facility, the method comprising:
- receiving first status information from the first mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the first mobile correctional facility robot is of a first type and wherein the status information is associated with a task to be performed;
- identifying, based on the first status information, the second mobile correctional facility robot and the third mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the second mobile correctional facility robot and the third mobile correctional facility robot are of a second type, wherein the second type are enforcement type robots;
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- assigning, to the second mobile correctional facility robot and the third mobile correctional robot, the task to be performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.