Transport of package from buildings provided with elevators
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorNouri Werdi
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Abstract
A control system for arranging a transport of a package from a building provided with an elevator system is described, in which the control system is configured to: receive an indication that the mobile robot has received the package, generate an acknowledgement to the mobile robot, arrange an elevator service to the mobile robot, and generate, in response to a detection that the mobile robot exits the building, a control signal to a robot controller, the control signal including data indicative on an assignment of a responsibility of a control of the mobile robot to the robot controller. A method and a computer program medium are also provided.
Claims21
A control system for arranging a transport of a package from a building provided with an elevator system, the control system is configured to:
- receive an indication descriptive on that the mobile robot has received the package from a sender to transport the package from the building,
- generate an acknowledgement to the mobile robot, the acknowledgement comprising data causing the mobile robot to initiate the transport of the package,
- arrange an elevator service to the mobile robot by generating an elevator call to the elevator system to request an arrival of an elevator car to a floor the mobile robot resides and a travel of the elevator car to a destination floor comprising an entrance door of the building, and
- generate, in response to a detection that the mobile robot exits the building, a control signal to a robot controller, the control signal comprising data indicative on an assignment of a responsibility of a control of the mobile robot to the robot controller.
A method, performed by a control system, for arranging a transport of a package from a building provided with an elevator system, the method comprises:
- receiving an indication descriptive on that the mobile robot has received the package from a sender to transport the package from the building,
- generating an acknowledgement to the mobile robot, the acknowledgement comprising data causing the mobile robot to initiate the transport of the package,
- arranging an elevator service to the mobile robot by generating an elevator call to the elevator system to request an arrival of an elevator car to a floor the mobile robot resides and a travel of the elevator car to a destination floor comprising an entrance door of the building, and
- generating, in response to a detection that the mobile robot exits the building, a control signal to a robot controller, the control signal comprising data indicative on an assignment of a responsibility of a control of the mobile robot to the robot controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.