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US 8,892,250 B2Granted
Robot and recovery method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorTae Sin Ha
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are a robot capable of recovering from a failure of one of a plurality of symmetrically structured modules, and a recovery method thereof. When a hardware or software failure occurs, the robot recovers by itself by replacing the failed module with another corresponding module. Accordingly, resources of the robot can be more efficiently utilized.
Claims14
A robot comprising:
- a plurality of modules substantially symmetrically structured;
- and
- a recovery unit recovering from a failure generated in one module of the plurality of modules using another modules symmetrically corresponding to the failed module,
- wherein the recovery unit determines whether the failure can be recovered from and replaces the failed module with a module that is separate from the robot or one of the modules that is already included in the robot and the recovery unit stores data in progress when the recovery unit determines that the failure cannot be recovered from and the robot is not in danger.
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A robot comprising:
- a plurality of component parts;
- and
- a recovery unit determining whether a failure can be recovered from, separating a failed one of the component parts and replacing the separated part with a new part with a module that is separate from the robot or one of the modules that is already included in the robot and storing data in progress when the recovery unit determines that the failure cannot be recovered from and the robot is not in danger.
A method to recover a robot, comprising:
- diagnosing a failure of one of a plurality of modules substantially symmetrically structured;
- determining whether the failure can be recovered from;
- replacing the failed module with a module that is separate from the robot or one of the modules that is already included in the robot using a symmetric corresponding module;
- and
- storing data in progress when it is determined that the failure cannot be recovered from and the robot is not in danger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.