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US 12,384,656 B2Granted
System for mobile robot to autonomously take elevator
AssigneesTE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd.
InventorsYingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Fengchun Xie, Mingyang Weng
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Abstract
A system for a mobile robot to autonomously take an elevator includes an elevator button pressing module mounted on an elevator floor control panel of the elevator. The elevator button pressing module communicates with the mobile robot wirelessly and is adapted to press a pair of elevator buttons on the elevator floor control panel according to an instruction issued by the mobile robot to call an elevator car.
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A system, comprising:
- a mobile robot;
- an elevator having an elevator floor control panel;
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- an elevator button pressing module mounted on the elevator floor control panel of the elevator, the elevator button pressing module communicates with the mobile robot wirelessly and is adapted to press a pair of elevator buttons on the elevator floor control panel according to an instruction issued by the mobile robot to call an elevator car, the elevator button pressing module includes:
- a pair of virtual fingers on a back side of a housing;
- a pair of virtual buttons on a front side of the housing;
- a driver in the housing driving the virtual fingers to move relative to the housing;
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- a controller disposed in the housing and controlling the driver, the controller wirelessly communicates with the mobile robot, the driver drives one of the virtual fingers to move to press a corresponding one of the elevator buttons on the elevator floor control panel in response to one of the virtual buttons being pressed and under the control of the controller according to the instruction issued by the mobile robot.
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