Visual fiducial for behavior control zone
AssigneeiRobot Corporation
InventorsEric J. Burbank, Oliver Lewis
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Abstract
A mobile cleaning robot system can include a mobile cleaning robot and processing circuitry. The mobile cleaning robot can include a camera and can be operable to clean a floor surface of an environment. The processing circuitry can be in communication with the mobile cleaning robot and the camera, the processing circuitry configured to produce an image output based on an optical field of view of the camera. The processing circuitry can also detect a visual fiducial in the image output and can determine a behavior modification based on the visual fiducial. The processing circuitry can modify movement of the mobile cleaning robot based on the behavior modification.
Claims20
A mobile cleaning robot system comprising:
- a mobile cleaning robot operable to clean a floor surface of an environment, the mobile cleaning robot including an image capture device;
- a tower including a visual fiducial, the tower positionable in the environment;
- and
- processing circuitry in communication with the mobile cleaning robot and the image capture device, the processing circuitry configured to:
- produce an image output based on an optical field of view of the image capture device;
- detect the visual fiducial located in the image output;
- display, on a user interface, a menu for selecting a behavior modification;
- receive a selected behavior modification from the user interface;
- and
- associate the visual fiducial with the selected behavior modification.
A mobile cleaning robot system comprising:
- processing circuitry in communication with a mobile cleaning robot and an image capture device of the mobile cleaning robot, the processing circuitry configured to:
- produce an image output based on an optical field of view of an environment of the image capture device;
- detect, in the image output, a visual fiducial located on a user-placeable base in the environment;
- display, on a user interface, a menu for selecting a behavior modification based on detection of the visual fiducial;
- receive a selected behavior modification from the user interface;
- and
- associate the visual fiducial with the selected behavior modification.
A mobile cleaning robot system comprising:
- a mobile cleaning robot operable to clean a floor surface of an environment, the mobile cleaning robot including an image capture device;
- processing circuitry in communication with the mobile cleaning robot and the image capture device, the processing circuitry configured to:
- produce an image output based on an optical field of view of the image capture device;
- detect a visual fiducial of a user-placed tower located in the image output;
- display, on a user interface, a menu for selecting a behavior modification based on detection of the visual fiducial;
- receive a selected behavior modification from the user interface;
- and
- associate the visual fiducial with the selected behavior modification.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.