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US 9,014,848 B2Granted
Mobile robot system
AssigneeiRobot Corporation
InventorsTimothy S. Farlow, Michael Rosenstein, Michael Halloran, Chikyung Won, Steven V. Shamlian, Mark Chiappetta
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Abstract
A robot system includes a mobile robot having a controller executing a control system for controlling operation of the robot, a cloud computing service in communication with the controller of the robot, and a remote computing device in communication with the cloud computing service. The remote computing device communicates with the robot through the cloud computing service.
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A method of operating a mobile robot, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a data processing device, a layout map corresponding to an environment of the robot;
- moving the robot in the environment to one or more layout map locations on the layout map;
- recording, in non-transitory memory in communication with the data processing device, one or more robot map locations on a robot map, the robot map corresponding to the environment and produced by the robot;
- determining, using the data processing device, a distortion between the robot map and the layout map using the recorded robot map locations of the robot map and the corresponding layout map locations of the layout map;
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- applying, using the data processing device, the determined distortion to a target layout map location to determine a corresponding target robot map location.
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