Multi-Modal Target Object Location for Mobile Robots
AssigneeSkild-Fetch LLC
InventorsGireesh S. Dharwarkar, Timothy B. Austin, Steffen Fuchs, Benjamin Narin, tori Fujinami
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Abstract
A method includes at a processor of a mobile robot, obtaining an identifier of a target object; at the processor, controlling a wireless transceiver of the mobile robot to receive the identifier from a tag associated with the target object; selecting, at the processor, a direction of travel based on a read zone orientation of the wireless transceiver corresponding to receipt of the identifier; controlling, at the processor, a locomotive assembly of the mobile robot to travel in the selected direction; capturing an image with a camera secured to the mobile robot; and detecting the target object in the image.
Claims21
A method, comprising:
- at a processor of a mobile robot, obtaining an identifier of a target object;
- at the processor, controlling a wireless transceiver of the mobile robot to receive the identifier from a tag associated with the target object;
- selecting, at the processor, a direction of travel based on a read zone orientation of the wireless transceiver corresponding to receipt of the identifier;
- controlling, at the processor, a locomotive assembly of the mobile robot to travel in the selected direction;
- capturing an image with a camera secured to the mobile robot;
- and
- detecting the target object in the image.
A mobile robot, comprising:
- a locomotive assembly;
- a wireless transceiver;
- a camera;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- obtain an identifier of a target object;
- control the wireless transceiver to receive the identifier from a tag associated with the target object;
- select a direction of travel based on a read zone orientation of the wireless transceiver corresponding to receipt of the identifier;
- control the locomotive assembly of the mobile robot to travel in the selected direction;
- capture an image with the camera;
- and
- detect the target object in the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.