Remote control robot, remote control robot control system, and remote control robot control method

A remote-controlled robot control system comprising:

• a remote-controlled robot configured to autonomously travel to a plurality of task execution places according to a patrol schedule and execute a plurality of tasks at each task execution place;
• a control terminal configured to manually operate the remote-controlled robot;
• and
• a control server accessible by the remote-controlled robot and the control terminal,
• wherein the control server includes a memory configured to store:
• the patrol schedule, and
• a setting of whether to perform an autonomous operation or to perform a manual operation by an operation of an operator from the control terminal for each of a plurality of tasks to be executed at the task execution place regarding each of the plurality of task execution places,
• wherein the control terminal includes one or more processors configured to perform setting of the patrol schedule and setting of each of the plurality of tasks in the control server prior to start of operation of the remote-controlled robot, and
• wherein the remote-controlled robot includes one or more processors configured to
• acquire a setting for each of the patrol schedule and the plurality of tasks from the control server, and
• switch between task execution by the autonomous operation and task execution by the manual operation based on the acquired setting;
• detect whether a task execution target person is sleeping, and
• select a set of operations to perform based on the detecting whether the task execution target person is sleeping, the set of tasks being selected from at least (i) an automated task that is automatically performable on the task execution target person without waking the task execution target person in response to detecting that the task execution target person is sleeping and (ii) switching to a manually executable task in response to detecting that the task execution target person is not sleeping.

A control method of a remote-controlled robot including a processor and a memory and configured to autonomously travel to a plurality of task execution places according to a patrol schedule and execute a plurality of tasks at each task execution place, the method comprising:

• causing the processor to acquire setting whether to perform an autonomous operation or to perform a manual operation by an operation of an operator from a remote control terminal for each of the plurality of tasks to be executed at each task execution place;
• and
• causing the processor to switch between task execution by the autonomous operation and task execution by the manual operation based on the acquired setting;
• causing the processor to detect whether a task execution target person is sleeping, and
• causing the processor to select a set of operations to perform based on the detecting whether the task execution target person is sleeping, the set of tasks being selected from at least (i) an automated task that is automatically performable on the task execution target person without waking the task execution target person in response to detecting that the task execution target person is sleeping and (ii) switching to a manually executable task in response to detecting that the task execution target person is not sleeping.