Autonomous robot system, and method for controlling autonomous robot
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsNoriyuki Kugou, Sonoko Hirasawa
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Abstract
A system includes a worker robot configured to move in a facility, a robot control server for controlling operations of the worker robot, and a presence management server for managing presence information on a user's presence in an office of the facility. The robot control server acquires, via an SNS system, a work request entered by the user using the SNS; acquires work information about the user's work request; acquires the user's position data as a destination from the presence management server; and controls the operations of the worker robot based on the work information and the user's position data.
Claims6
An autonomous robot system for controlling an autonomous robot such that, in response to a work request for delivery of an item, the autonomous robot does the work of delivery, the system comprising:
- a presence management server that manages a presence state and a position of each user staying in a facility;
- the autonomous robot configured to move in the facility;
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- a control device for controlling operations of the autonomous robot,
- wherein the control device is configured to:
- receive, via an SNS system, a message of the work request from a requester user who uses the SNS system, and analyze the message to acquire work information about the work request for delivery of the item, the work information including names of the requester user who made the work request and a receiver user who is to receive the item;
- inquire the presence management server about respective presence states of the requester user and the receiver user;
- when both the requester user and the receiver user are present, acquire position data of the requester and receiver users' positions from the presence management server;
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- control movement of the autonomous robot in the operations of receiving the item from the requester user and handing over the item to the receiver user based on the work information and the position data of the requester and receiver users' positions.
A method for controlling an autonomous robot such that, in response to a work request for delivery of an item, the autonomous robot does the work of delivery, wherein the autonomous robot is configured to move in a facility, and wherein a control device controls operations of the autonomous robot, the method comprising causing the control device to:
- receive, via an SNS system, a message of the work request from a requester user who uses the SNS system, and analyze the message to acquire work information about the work for delivery of the item, the work information including names of the requester user who made the work request and a receiver user who is to receive the item;
- inquire a presence management server about respective presence states of the requester user and the receiver user, the presence management server managing a presence state and a position of each user staying in the facility;
- when both the requester user and the receiver user are present, acquire position data of the requester and receiver users' positions from the presence management server;
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- control movement of the autonomous robot in the operations of receiving the item from the requester user and handing over the item to the receiver user based on the work information and the position data of the requester and receiver users' positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.