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AssigneeAldebaran Robotics
InventorsJulien Serre, Brice Marnier, Jerome Matard
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The present invention applies to a mobile robot which can have a human appearance and sophisticated functions enabling it to execute missions. To enable communications internal to the robot to be optimized and allow for a versatility that is both physical (possible substitution of parts of the robot) and software (replacement of programs to adapt it to new missions), an architecture with three computer levels is provided. The highest level comprises the intelligence of the robot which generates commands which are transmitted by an intermediate computer to low-level cards which control the sensors and actuators. Communication between the intermediate computer and the low-level cards is managed by at least one specific secure communication protocol.
A mobile robot on articulated limbs comprising a plurality of subsets of sensors and actuators, each subset being controlled by an electronic card, wherein the control functions for at least some of the electronic cards are distributed between at least a first computer and a second computer, said first computer notably handling the transmission to said electronic cards of command messages for executing functions defined by the second computer.
A method for controlling a mobile robot on articulated limbs comprising a plurality of command steps for subsets of sensors and actuators, each subset being commanded by an electronic card, wherein the control steps for at least some of the electronic cards are distributed between at least a first computer and a second computer, said first computer notably handling the step of transmission to said electronic cards of command messages for executing functions for which the definition step is performed by the second computer.
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