Mobile robot
AssigneeMobile Robot Technologies LLC
InventorsStefan Stoyanov, Tsvetomir Varbanov, Daniel Bratanov, Rumyana Bratanova, Tihomir Todorov
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Abstract
A mobile robot may include a first track located on a first side of a robot body and a second track located on a second side of the robot body. The first track and the second track may be configured to cause movement of the robot body relative to a first surface. The mobile robot may also include a crutch. The crutch may have a crutch arm extending from a magnet base, where the crutch includes a crutch magnet secured to the magnet base, where the crutch arm is rotatable relative to the robot body about an axis, and where the magnet base is fixed relative to the crutch arm such that the crutch magnet moves when the crutch arm rotates about the axis.
Claims19
A mobile robot, the mobile robot comprising:
- a robot body;
- a first track located on a first side of the robot body and a second track located on a second side of the robot body, wherein the first track and the second track are configured to cause movement of the robot body relative to a first surface;
- and
- a first crutch, wherein the first crutch includes a crutch arm extending from a magnet base, and wherein the first crutch includes a crutch magnet secured to the magnet base,
- wherein the crutch arm is rotatable relative to the robot body about an axis, and
- wherein the magnet base is fixed relative to the crutch arm such that the crutch magnet moves when the crutch arm rotates about the axis
- wherein the magnet base includes an arced profile that is parallel to a profile formed by a curved portion of the first track, and wherein the crutch magnet moves along the arced profile when the crutch arm rotates.
A mobile robot, the mobile robot comprising:
- a robot body;
- a first track located on a first side of the robot body and a second track located on a second side of the robot body, wherein the first track and the second track are configured to cause movement of the robot body relative to a first surface,
- wherein the first track includes a plurality of linkages mechanically coupled to an actuator, wherein at least one of the linkages includes a track magnet for causing an attraction between the first track and the first surface;
- and
- a first crutch, wherein the first crutch includes a crutch arm that extends beyond an outer perimeter profile of the first track and includes a magnet base comprising an arced profile that is parallel to a profile formed by a curved portion of the first track.
A mobile robot, the mobile robot comprising:
- a robot body;
- a first track located on a first side of the robot body and a second track located on a second side of the robot body, wherein the first track and the second track are configured to cause movement of the robot body relative to a first surface;
- and
- a first crutch and a second crutch located on a front side of the mobile robot;
- and
- a third crutch and a fourth crutch located on a back side of the mobile robot,
- wherein each of the first crutch, the second crutch, the third crutch, and the fourth crutch includes a crutch arm that extends beyond an outer perimeter profile of the first track and the second track;
- and
- wherein at least one of the first crutch and the third crutch comprises a magnet base having an arced profile that is parallel to a profile formed by a curved portion of the first track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.