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.
Claims20
A method for coordinating a plurality of mobile correctional facility robots comprising a first mobile correctional facility robot and a second 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 status information is associated with a task to be performed;
- determining, based on the first status information, a route within the correctional facility;
- identifying, based on the first status information, the second mobile correctional facility robot;
- assigning, to the second mobile correctional facility robot, the task to be performed;
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- transmitting, to the second mobile correctional facility robot, the route, wherein the route is configured to cause the second mobile correctional facility robot to traverse the route in the correctional facility to perform the task.
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 and a second 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 status information is associated with a task to be performed;
- determining, based on the first status information, a route within the correctional facility;
- 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;
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- transmitting, to the second mobile correctional facility robot, the route, wherein the route is configured to cause the second mobile correctional facility robot to traverse the route in the correctional facility to perform the task.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor in a coordinator for coordinating a plurality of mobile correctional facility robots comprising a first mobile correctional facility robot and a second mobile correctional facility robot in a correctional facility, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving first status information from the first mobile correctional facility robot, wherein the first status information is associated with a task to be performed;
- determining, based on the first status information, a route within the correctional facility;
- 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;
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- transmitting, to the second mobile correctional facility robot, the route, wherein the route is configured to cause the second mobile correctional facility robot to traverse the route in the correctional facility to perform the task.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.