Referencing safety zones to other equipment
OwnerJeppe AAKÆR IVERSEN, Claus JØRGENSENinventors
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Abstract
An autonomous mobile robot can include a body, at least one sensor configured to detect aspects of the environment in the vicinity of the autonomous mobile robot, and a control unit configured to process data received from the sensor to identify a position of a workpiece of the autonomous mobile robot and to define a safety field that has a position referenced to the position of the workpiece. The safety field is an area or a volume in which the presence of an object triggers a safety response by the autonomous mobile robot.
Claims20
A method performed by an autonomous mobile robot, the method comprising:
- identifying a first position on a workpiece for the autonomous mobile robot to perform an operation;
- defining a safety field by a second position relative to the first position, wherein the safety field comprises an area or a volume in which a presence of an object triggers a safety response by the autonomous mobile robot;
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- triggering the safety response in response to detecting the presence of the object in the safety field.
An autonomous mobile robot comprising:
- a body;
- at least one sensor configured to detect one or more aspects of an environment of the autonomous mobile robot;
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- a control system configured to process data received from the at least one sensor to identify a first position of a workpiece associated with the autonomous mobile robot and to define a safety field based on a second position relative to the first position, wherein the safety field comprises an area or a volume in which a presence of an object triggers a safety response by the autonomous mobile robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.