Methods and autonomous robots for taking inventory in a structure

An autonomous mobile robot for taking inventory in a datacenter, the autonomous mobile robot comprising:

• a mobile robot base for providing movement of the autonomous mobile robot;
• a rigid member connected to and at least partially extending upward from the mobile robot base;
• at least one camera immovably connected to the rigid member, the at least one camera being configured and arranged to acquire images of a plurality of objects within in the datacenter;
• and
• a controller system communicatively connected to the mobile robot base and the at least one camera, the controller system being configured to:
• control displacement of the autonomous mobile robot using the mobile robot base causing the autonomous mobile robot to navigate to a predetermined data collection position,
• control operation of the at least one camera to:
• acquire a plurality of positioning images of at least one rack of the datacenter at a first image resolution;
• and
• acquire, in response to determining that the at least one positioning image of the plurality of positioning images contains an image of a predetermined landmark and at the predetermined data collection position, at least one inventory image at a second image resolution, the second image resolution being greater than the first image resolution, wherein the predetermined data collection position is based at least in part on a position of the autonomous mobile robot during acquisition of the at least one positioning image, and wherein the predetermined landmark is a plurality of electronic equipment module lights of the at least one rack;
• and
• extract, from the at least one inventory image, a plurality of inventory labels, each inventory label relating to a corresponding object of the plurality of objects within the datacenter, wherein extracting the plurality of inventory labels further comprises extracting a corresponding inventory label identifying a corresponding electronic equipment module of the at least one rack.