System and methods of power-driven shoe device control
AssigneeShift Robotics, Inc.
InventorsXunjie ZHANG, Abram PLETA
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Abstract
A power-driven shoe with a decentralized control system configured to maintain synchronization between a paired power-driven shoe is disclosed. The power-driven shoe comprises a shoe sole with a sole portion and a toe portion, a plurality of rotatable wheels disposed below the shoe sole, a motor disposed below the shoe sole and in driving connection with at least one of the plurality of rotatable wheels, a control circuit interfaced to the motor, and a network adapter interfaced to the control circuit and configured to communicate to the paired power-driven shoe using one-way communication.
Claims15
A power-driven shoe comprising:
- a shoe sole comprising a sole portion and a toe portion;
- a plurality of rotatable wheels disposed below the shoe sole;
- a motor disposed below the shoe sole, wherein the motor is in driving connection with at least one of the plurality of rotatable wheels;
- a control circuit interfaced to the motor;
- and
- a network adapter interfaced to the control circuit,
- wherein the network adapter is configured to communicate to a second power-driven shoe using one-way communication.
A method of controlling a velocity of a power-driven shoe comprising:
- calculating a first velocity of the power-driven shoe based on the input of an inertial measurement unit and a motor sensor;
- transmitting the first velocity to a paired power-driven shoe;
- receiving a second velocity from the paired power-driven shoe;
- determining whether the first velocity and second velocity match;
- in response to the first velocity and the second velocity not matching:
- determining a safer velocity between the first velocity and the second velocity;
- and
- operating the motor at the safer velocity;
- and
- in response to the first velocity and the second velocity matching, operating the motor at the first velocity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.