Mobile robot and control method therefor
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsEuihyun Jung, Jinwook Yoon, Wonyoung Seo
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Abstract
A mobile robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a main body; a rotation portion which is disposed on a side surface of the main body and movably supports the main body; a storage box disposed inside the main body to store smell substances; a smell discharge passage formed to discharge smell from the storage box to the outside of the main body; an opening and closing portion disposed to open and close a space between the storage box and the smell discharge passage; a delivery passage disposed to guide the air flowing by the rotation of the rotation portion, to the smell discharge passage; and a control unit for controlling driving of the rotation portion and the opening and closing portion.
Claims15
A mobile robot, comprising:
- a main body;
- a rotating part configured to rotate to move the main body;
- a storage box inside the main body to store an odorous substance;
- an odor discharge flow path through which, when the odorous substance is stored in the storage box, odor from the odorous substance is passable to be discharged to an outside of the main body;
- a valve assembly configured to open or close to control diffusion of the odor through the odor discharge flow path;
- a transfer flow path configured to guide a flow of air generated by rotation of the rotating part to the odor discharge flow path;
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- a controller configured to control rotation of the rotating part and opening and closing of the valve assembly.
A method for controlling a mobile robot, the method comprising:
- calculating a degree of interest of a detection object using at least one of a distance detected by a distance sensor or a contact detected by a touch sensor;
- controlling, based on the calculated degree of interest, diffusion of an odor of an odorous substance stored in a storage box by controlling a valve assembly;
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- controlling rotation of a rotating part to move the mobile robot and so that a flow of air generated by rotation of the rotating part is guided to the storage box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.