Self-healing Robot for kitchen environment
AssigneeMiso Robotics, Inc.
InventorsBachir Kharraja, Zachary Zweig Vinegar, Yusuke Kojitani, Ibrahim Helal, Jayasurya Sevalur Mahendran
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Abstract
An automated food preparation system includes an enclosure defining a robotic workspace, a robotic arm and a plurality of functional stations for dispensing raw food to a bin, transferring the raw food from the bin to a fry basket, frying the raw food, and transferring the cooked food to a receiving pan. The system is programmed and operable to monitor its health, and to adjust operating parameters in order to compensate for detected conditions outside of a predetermined acceptable range. Related methods are described.
Claims18
An automated food preparation system for cooking raw food comprising:
- an enclosure defining a robot workspace;
- a robotic arm arranged within the robot workspace;
- a plurality of functional stations comprising:
- a dispensing station for dispensing raw food into a basin within the enclosure;
- a food transfer station comprising the basin and arranged within the enclosure to receive the raw food from the dispensing station, and operable to lift the basin, and to transfer the raw food from the basin to a fry basket held by the robotic arm;
- a fry station arranged within the enclosure and comprising at least one fryer for frying the fry basket of raw food into cooked food;
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- a computer system programmed to:
- control the plurality of functional stations and robotic arm to dispense the raw food to the basin, transfer the raw food to the fry basket, move the fry basket along a route into a fryer, fry the raw food, transfer the cooked food to an egress area for transferring the cooked food from inside the enclosure to outside the enclosure;
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- monitor the health of the functional stations and robotic arm by obtaining real-time sensor data obtained from each of the stations during cooking;
- analyze the functional stations and robotic arm for an abnormal condition based on comparing the real-time sensor data and baseline sensor data;
- compute an adjustment for the functional stations and robotic arm based on the analysis of the functional stations and robotic arm;
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- modify the functional station or robotic arm based on the computed adjustment.
A method for automatically preparing raw food comprising:
- automatically dispensing a target amount of raw food into a basin;
- lifting by a motor-driven elevator the basin of raw food above a fry basket;
- dumping the raw food from the basin into the fry basket;
- robotically moving the fry basket along a predetermined route into a fryer;
- cooking the raw food in the fryer;
- robotically transferring the cooked food to an egress area for transferring the cooked food from inside the enclosure to outside the enclosure;
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- continuously obtaining real-time sensor data during each of the dispensing, lifting, robotically moving, and robotically transferring steps;
- analyzing each step for an abnormal condition based on comparing the real-time sensor data and baseline sensor data;
- and if one of said steps has an abnormal condition, then computing an adjustment to the step having the abnormal condition based on the analyzing step;
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- modifying the step having the abnormal condition based on the computed adjustment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.