A household flexible bionic humanoid emotional companion care robot

Abstract

This invention discloses a flexible, bionic humanoid emotional companion and care robot for home use, relating to the fields of smart home and home service robot technology. The robot includes a flexible bionic shell, a walking drive mechanism, limb drive components, a voice interaction module, an offline data interface, a control module, a power module, and a smart home wireless control unit. The control module includes a microprocessor, a storage unit, and a motor drive circuit. It can import custom time, placement location, and reminder data through the offline data interface, supports Mandarin and various regional dialects for recognition and interaction, and can drive the robot to move directionally forward, backward, left, and right indoors, performing interactive actions such as raising arms, raising legs, bending over, opening eyes, opening mouth, nodding, and waving. The arm end has a flexible grasping mechanism, enabling simple care actions such as pouring water, getting medicine, retrieving a mobile phone, and retrieving glasses. The smart home wireless control unit can control home appliances such as opening doors, adjusting air conditioning, and turning the TV on and off. The system can trigger corresponding voice prompts and action sequences based on preset time nodes, fixed placement locations, or voice keywords, providing reminders for daily life, holiday care, daily companionship, emotional comfort, and basic home care. The entire machine can operate stably without an internet connection. The present invention has a complete technical solution, a reasonable scope of protection, and strong practicality. It is suitable for family companionship and care scenarios such as elderly people living alone, single people, and left-behind children, and fills the technical gap of home-use flexible bionic humanoid companion and care robots.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This invention relates to the field of home service robot technology, specifically to a home-use flexible bionic humanoid emotional companion and care robot. Background Technology

[0002] With changes in social and family structures, the demand for home companionship and care for groups such as elderly people living alone, single people, and left-behind children continues to rise. Existing smart home companionship devices have significant shortcomings: First, most use hard plastic or metal shells, resulting in a stiff feel, insufficient safety, and a lack of biomimetic friendliness; second, voice interaction only supports Mandarin, failing to effectively adapt to dialect usage scenarios, leading to poor compatibility with elderly users; third, they generally rely on the internet and mobile apps for setup, making operation complex and unsuitable for rural areas and the elderly; fourth, their functions are limited, only capable of simple voice broadcasts or physical movements, lacking basic care capabilities such as dispensing medicine, water, and items, and their home device control methods are simplistic, making them easily circumvented by technology; fifth, some function descriptions lack complete hardware structural support, resulting in weak feasibility and difficulty in forming stable and effective patent protection. Currently, there is no home-use biomimetic humanoid companionship and care robot that integrates a flexible biomimetic body, dialect interaction, offline settings, autonomous walking, simple care, and multi-mode home control, leaving a significant gap in the relevant technological field. Summary of the Invention

[0003] To address the technical shortcomings of existing home companionship and care devices, this invention provides a flexible, bionic humanoid emotional companionship and care robot for home use. Through a complete hardware structure design and scenario-based functional combinations, it can provide emotional companionship, daily reminders, emotional comfort, simple care, and control of home appliances, thus meeting the daily care needs of families.

[0004] Technical solution

[0005] A home-use flexible bionic humanoid emotional companion care robot includes a flexible bionic shell body (1), a walking drive mechanism (2), a limb drive component (3), a facial execution component (8), a voice acquisition module (4), a voice interaction module, an offline data interface (6), a control module (5), a power module (7), and a smart home wireless control unit (9). The flexible bionic shell body (1) is made of flexible bionic material to form a human-shaped structure. It has an internal support skeleton and movable joints corresponding to the head, torso, and limbs. The body has no sharp edges. The arms are equipped with flexible gripping mechanisms (10) that can be compatible with various object gripping methods such as claws, suction cups, and flexible lifting. The head is equipped with facial execution components (8) to realize facial actions such as opening eyes and opening mouth. The walking drive mechanism (2) adopts a miniature silent drive component, which is set at the bottom of the body to achieve stable directional movement in the interior, and can move to the shelf or the user's location according to the preset point. The limb drive component (3) consists of a micro servo motor and a transmission component, which can complete interactive and care actions. The movements are smooth and stable, preventing items from falling or bumping. The facial execution component (8) is installed on the robot head and electrically connected to the limb drive component (3) and the control module (5) to perform facial actions such as opening eyes and opening mouth; The voice acquisition module (4) is used to acquire user voice signals in real time and transmit them to the voice interaction module for parsing and processing. The voice interaction module supports Mandarin and dialect recognition, can switch modes and train regional dialects, and realizes full-scene voice command control and dialogue interaction. The offline data interface (6) uses a USB interface, which can import preset time, placement location, audio script and control commands via USB flash drive or computer, and can complete data update without network; The smart home wireless control unit (9) integrates multiple wireless transmission modules such as infrared, Bluetooth, and radio frequency, and is compatible with the control of various household air conditioners, televisions, and simple access control devices; The control module (5) is based on a microprocessor, and is combined with a storage unit and a motor drive circuit to realize instruction parsing, timing control, point execution and action sequence driving, forming a complete hardware control link; The power module (7) uses a rechargeable lithium battery to provide stable power to the whole machine.

[0006] Beneficial effects

[0007] 1. It adopts a flexible bionic body design, which is gentle to the touch, safe and without sharp edges. The bionic shape is more suitable for family companionship and care scenarios. 2. Supports dual-mode recognition of Mandarin and dialects, with customizable dialect training, suitable for a wide range of users including the elderly and rural families; 3. It adopts an offline data import method, requiring no internet connection or mobile app. The setup is simple and easy to use, and its applicability is not limited by network conditions. 4. It integrates multiple functions such as walking and movement, body interaction, object grasping and delivery, and home control, taking into account both emotional companionship and practical care; 5. The technical features are described in a higher-level terminology, providing broad protection and effectively preventing others from circumventing the technology by replacing the structure; 6. The overall technical solution is complete and feasible, with clear action logic, safe and smooth operation, meeting the needs of long-term home use, and has high social practical value. Attached Figure Description

[0008] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of the robot of the present invention; Figure 2 This is a hardware connection block diagram of the system of the present invention; Explanation of the corresponding labels in the attached diagram: 1- Flexible bionic shell body; 2- Walking drive mechanism; 3- Limb drive component; 4- Voice acquisition module; 5- Control module; 6- Offline data interface; 7- Power module; 8- Facial actuator; 9- Smart home wireless control unit; 10- Flexible grasping mechanism. Detailed Implementation

[0009] After the robot is powered on, the power module (7) supplies power and the system self-tests and enters standby mode; the voice acquisition module (4) collects voice signals in real time, and the voice interaction module completes the recognition and analysis; the control module (5) controls the walking drive mechanism (2), limb drive component (3), and facial execution component (8) to perform actions or the smart home wireless control unit (9) to control home appliances according to the instructions.

[0010] Users can import data such as birthday, anniversary, daily routine, medication time, and fixed shelf location via USB flash drive through offline data interface (6). The control module (5) drives the walking drive mechanism (2) to move to the designated location according to the time trigger and point logic, and drives the limb drive component (3) and flexible gripping mechanism (10) to perform action sequences such as taking medicine, taking water, and delivering items, and plays voice reminders at the same time.

[0011] The voice interaction module can switch between Mandarin and dialect modes and supports importing dialect voice libraries according to the region of use. When it recognizes keywords such as comforting and companionship, the robot plays the corresponding audio and drives the limb drive component (3) and facial execution component (8) to perform gentle interactive actions to achieve emotional comfort and amusement.

[0012] The smart home wireless control unit (9) transmits control signals via infrared, Bluetooth, or radio frequency according to voice commands to complete operations such as opening doors, adjusting air conditioning, and turning the TV on and off. The whole machine moves smoothly, runs quietly, is safe and shock-free, requires no complicated debugging, and can be used for long-term family companionship, care and daily care.

Claims

1. A home use flexible bionic humanoid emotional companion care robot, characterized in that, It includes a flexible bionic shell body (1), a walking drive mechanism (2), a limb drive component (3), a facial execution component (8), a voice acquisition module (4), a voice interaction module, an offline data interface (6), a control module (5), a power module (7), and a smart home wireless control unit (9). The flexible bionic shell body (1) is a bionic humanoid structure with movable joints corresponding to the human head, torso, arms and legs. The head is equipped with a facial execution component (8), and the arm ends are equipped with a flexible gripping mechanism (10) for grasping objects. The walking drive mechanism (2) is located on the lower part of the body and is used to enable the robot to move forward, backward, left and right in an indoor orientation. The limb drive component (3) is arranged corresponding to each joint of the body, and the facial execution component (8) is located on the head. The two work together to perform interactive actions such as raising arms, raising legs, bending over, opening eyes, opening mouth, nodding, waving hands, as well as simple care actions such as pouring water, getting medicine, taking mobile phones, and taking glasses. The voice acquisition module (4) is electrically connected to the voice interaction module and is used to acquire and recognize voice commands to realize voice interaction, action control and smart home device control. The offline data interface (6) is used to access an external storage device and import custom preset data; The smart home wireless control unit (9) is connected to the control module (5) by signal to realize the control of home equipment such as door opening, air conditioning control, and TV turning on and off; The control module (5) includes a microprocessor, a storage unit and a motor drive circuit. The microprocessor is connected to the voice acquisition module (4), the voice interaction module, the offline data interface (6) and the smart home wireless control unit (9) respectively. It is also electrically connected to the walking drive mechanism (2), the limb drive component (3) and the facial execution component (8) through the motor drive circuit. It is used to parse voice commands, call stored data, control walking movement, execute actions and control smart home. The power module (7) supplies power to each power-consuming module.

2. The robot of claim 1, wherein, The voice interaction module can recognize commands including: forward, backward, left, right, raise left arm, raise right arm, raise left leg, raise right leg, bend over, open eyes, open mouth, nod, wave, pour water, get medicine, take mobile phone, take glasses, open door, turn on air conditioner, turn on TV.

3. The robot of claim 1, wherein, The voice interaction module has a built-in dialect recognition unit and a Mandarin recognition unit, supports switching between the two modes, and can be trained in dialect based on the region of use.

4. The robot of claim 1, wherein, Custom preset data that can be imported through the offline data interface (6) includes: birthday, anniversary, wake-up time, meal time, medication time, fixed shelf location, scene audio scripts and smart home control commands.

5. The robot according to claim 4, characterized in that, The control module (5) has a built-in time trigger and point execution logic. When the preset time node is reached, it controls the walking drive mechanism (2) to move to the fixed platform position, and then drives the limb drive component (3) and the facial execution component (8) to perform the sequence of grasping, delivering, tilting or facial expression actions, and outputs the corresponding voice reminders at the same time.

6. The robot according to claim 1, characterized in that, The flexible bionic shell body (1) is made of medical-grade flexible silicone material. It has no sharp edges and corners, and the limb movements are smooth and the operation is impact-free. The flexible gripping mechanism (10) can be a claw, a suction cup or a flexible lifting structure.

7. The robot according to claim 1, characterized in that, The control module (5) has built-in keyword matching logic. When the voice interaction module recognizes the preset keyword, it calls the corresponding audio data in the storage unit and synchronously drives the limb drive component (3) and the facial execution component (8) to perform soothing, amusing or caring actions.

8. The robot according to claim 1, characterized in that, The smart home wireless control unit (9) includes at least one of an infrared transmitting module, a Bluetooth module, or a radio frequency module, and is compatible with the control of multiple types of home appliances.

9. The robot according to claim 1, characterized in that, The device can perform voice recognition, offline data import, timed reminders, action execution, voice interaction, and control of home appliances without requiring an internet connection.

10. The robot according to claim 1, characterized in that, Suitable for family emotional companionship, daily living reminders, emotional interaction, simple care and life care scenarios for elderly people living alone, single people, and left-behind children.

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