149 results about "Robot communication" patented technology

Communication is an important issue in man-to-robot interaction. Signs can be used to interact with machines by providing user instructions or commands. Embodiment of the present invention include human detection, human body parts detection, hand shape analysis, trajectory analysis, orientation determination, gesture matching, and the like. Many types of shapes and gestures are recognized in a non-intrusive manner based on computer vision. A number of applications become feasible by this sign-understanding technology, including remote control of home devices, mouse-less (and touch-less) operation of computer consoles, gaming, and man-robot communication to give instructions among others. Active sensing hardware is used to capture a stream of depth images at a video rate, which is consequently analyzed for information extraction.

Communication is an important issue in man-to-robot interaction. Signs can be used to interact with machines by providing user instructions or commands. Embodiment of the present invention include human detection, human body parts detection, hand shape analysis, trajectory analysis, orientation determination, gesture matching, and the like. Many types of shapes and gestures are recognized in a non-intrusive manner based on computer vision. A number of applications become feasible by this sign-understanding technology, including remote control of home devices, mouse-less (and touch-less) operation of computer consoles, gaming, and man-robot communication to give instructions among others. Active sensing hardware is used to capture a stream of depth images at a video rate, which is consequently analyzed for information extraction.

A mobile, remotely controlled robot includes a turret subsystem, a robot controller subsystem configured to control the robot, control the turret, and fire the weapon, a robot navigation subsystem configured to determine the position of the robot, a turret orientation determination subsystem, and a robot communications subsystem for receiving commands and for transmitting robot position data and turret orientation data. An operator control unit includes a user interface for commanding the robot, the turret, and the weapon. An operator control unit communications subsystem transmits commands to the robot and receives robot position data and turret orientation data from the robot. An operator control unit navigation subsystem is configured to determine the position of the operator control unit. An operator control unit controller subsystem is responsive to the robot position data, the turret orientation data, and the operator control unit position and is configured to determine if the weapon is aimed at the operator control unit within a predetermined fan angle.

The invention discloses a robot off line programming system and method. The robot off line programming method includes: importing a robot kinematic constraint condition, a three-dimensional model of a working object of a robot, three-dimensional models of the robot and a tooling thereof into a robot three-dimensional virtual environment; performing curve discretization on extracted robot motion path graph primitives and pose information thereof, extracting path points, and generating a robot motion path; performing robot motion simulation and collision detection; modifying the path points according to a given definition on basis of the result of robot motion simulation and collision detection, generating a new robot motion path and pose, and displaying the new robot motion path and pose in an operation system; acquiring a feasibility result and generating a robot executable file; and communicating with the robot, importing the robot executable file into a robot controller, and realizing robot motion control. The robot off line programming system and method can effectively simplify operations, and improve the efficiency of robot programming work.

The invention discloses a portable intelligent electric power inspection device which comprises an inspection vehicle. An inspection control platform is arranged on the inspection vehicle. The inspection control platform makes communication with a plurality of intelligent inspection robots and makes communication with a remote monitoring terminal. Each intelligent inspection robot comprises a walking mechanism and an inspection module, wherein the inspection module makes communication with the inspection control platform through a communication module. The inspection control platform receives inspection information collected by the intelligent inspection robots. An inspection result is sent to the remote monitoring terminal through analysis and recognition. The multiple inspection robots are controlled by the inspection control platform for automatic inspection for replacing manual inspection, information collected on site can be accurately sent to the remote monitoring terminal in real time, the inspection accuracy is ensured, and the inspection authenticity is also ensured.

The invention provides a shopping method based on a remote control robot. The shopping method includes that the robot performs user following confirmation and starts to follow a user; the user purchases commodities through barcode scanning; a shopping guide instruction is acquired, the commodities in the shopping guide instruction are subjected to commodity map marking, a path is planned and shopping guide is performed; after commodity shopping, a commodity list, a payment amount and a payment mode are transmitted to a mobile terminal for confirmation, and payment is performed; the commodities are counted and checked during bagging; shopping is ended. The shopping method has the advantages that Bluetooth, an infrared sensor and a camera are used to confirm the user, user following uniqueness and accuracy are confirmed effectively, a shopping guide task can be completed fast and accurately through a commodity map, the robot constantly adjusts a moving speed to normally follow the user, and man-robot communication is performed effectively through a voice interaction process; the contradiction between actually-purchased commodities and actual payment expense is solved by the effective commodity counting mode during bagging.

The invention provides an interactive method and an interactive system of an old-age service robot, which can realize trusted interaction between old-age users and intelligent home environment. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining a control command input by the old-age user; judging the type of the control command, if the control command is a motion control command of the old-age service robot, directly controlling motion of the old-age service robot according to the control command; if the control command is a home device control command, encrypting the home device control command and sending the encrypted command out. The interactive method and the interactive system of the old-age service robot are suitable for the technical field of security of robot communication.

A method and program product includes communicating with a mobile edge computing server as a client. The mobile edge computing server is configured to be in control of a heterogeneous domain. A request to join the heterogeneous domain of the mobile edge computing server is made. The mobile edge computing server is configured for determining an on-board cache size of the requesting client, determining a download size for the requesting client, and transmitting a download to the requesting client. The download includes an application, an operating database, and a size determined by the download size. The download is received. At least one task determined by the download is executed.

The invention discloses an underground robot communication control system based on Wifi. The system is used for underground routing inspection and accident rescue and is particularly suitable for mines having accidents such as a gas explosion and a fire. An underground robot can reach a region where rescuers cannot reach as toxic and harmful gas exists, according to the rescue robot wireless communication control system, a new temporary Wifi network construction method is provided based on a multihop Wifi network technology, the wireless communication distance of the underground robot can be continuously increased along with advancing of the robot, and communication between the underground robot and control equipment is ensured. The problem that on the condition that an original wireless communication system in a mine cannot be used, the wireless communication distance between the underground robot and the control equipment is limited is solved.

The invention is a system in which containers communicate their specifications to a robot, preferably a robotic arm, in order to teach the robot how to handle the individual contents of the containers. Each container has a controller that stores information about that container's contents. In order for the robot to interact with the container's contents, the robot communicates with the controller of the container to receive instructions for interacting with the contents. Preferably, the system is part of an automated storage and retrieval system, and the robot interacts with the contents of the containers as part of an assigned task, such as food preparation. The system may include feedback sensors and a user interface.

The invention relates to a robot system, in particular to a robot system based on cellphone control. The robot system comprises a robot device and a cellphone device used for controlling the robot device, the robot device comprises a robot communication module, a microphone, a loudspeaker module, a power amplifying module, a steering engine and robot main controller, a cellphone terminal comprises a cellphone communication module, a cellphone main controller and a cellphone storage module, and the cellphone communication module is used for communicating with the robot communication module. Consequently, the robot system has the advantages that the robot system is reasonable in design, simple in structure, completely practical, low in cost and high in intelligentization level and has an interaction function, power consumption of a robot is lowered, and endurance time is increased.

The invention discloses an unmanned intelligent warehouse system based on a robot, and belongs to the technical field of intelligent warehouses. The warehouse system comprises a central server, a warehouse robot and an emergency robot, any two of the central server, warehouse robot and emergency robot are in bi-directional signal connection with each other, the central server comprises a multi-robot communication module, a multi-robot scheduling and planning module and a warehouse state collecting and detecting module, wherein the warehouse robot comprises a main control module, an obstacle detection module, a two-dimension code reading module, a radio frequency reading module, a wireless communication module, a map storing and positioning module and a non-contact charging and receiving module. Fast and safe non-contact charging for the warehouse robot can be achieved, fire potential caused by contact charging of the robot is avoided, meanwhile, the emergency robot is introduced, theefficiency and safety of the warehouse can be greatly improved, and meanwhile, the processing and response speed for a burst condition can be improved.

The invention relates to a real-time welding seam tracking method of an intelligent welding robot based on rotating arc sensing, and mainly solves the problems that a conventional welding robot is complex in space, welding seam tracks are difficult in demonstration and the conventional robot does not have the capacity of sensing outside information. The technical scheme of the real-time welding seam tracking method lies in that according to in the real-time welding seam tracking method disclosed by the invention, the characteristics of a rotating arc sensing type welding seam tracking system and the characteristics of a welding robot system are organically combined, a rotating arc welding seam tracking sensor is used for collecting the space pose information of a welding gun during welding in a real-time manner, a dimensionality classifier is used for separating the spatial attitudes of the sensor, a robot communication serial port is developed, obtained shift quantity and shift angle signals are converted into machine codes, the machine codes are transmitted to an amplified rotating arc real-time welding seam tracking sensor module in a real-time manner, a six-shaft executing mechanism is driven to perform real-time deviation correction, the deviation quantity of the real-time welding of the robot is effectively compensated, and the automated, flexible and intelligentized real-time welding seam tracking of the robot is realized.

An apparatus and method for generating telepresence are disclosed. The apparatus for generating telepresence includes a visual information sensing unit that is mounted on a robot which is located in a remote location, and senses visual information corresponding to a view of the robot, a tactile information sensing unit that is mounted on the robot, and senses tactile information in the remote location, an environmental information sensing unit that is mounted on the robot, and senses environmental information which is information for a physical environment of the remote location, a robot communication unit that receives movement information for movement performed by a user who is located in a space separated from the remote location in correspondence to the visual information, the tactile information, and the environmental information, and a robot control unit that drives the robot based on the movement information.

The invention is a system in which containers communicate their specifications to a robot, preferably a robotic arm, in order to teach the robot how to handle the individual contents of the containers. Each container has a controller that stores information about that container's contents. In order for the robot to interact with the container's contents, the robot communicates with the controller of the container to receive instructions for interacting with the contents. Preferably, the system is part of an automated storage and retrieval system, and the robot interacts with the contents of the containers as part of an assigned task, such as food preparation. The system may include feedback sensors and a user interface.

The invention discloses a robot communication method, which comprises the steps that an SIP server receives a registration request sent by a registration terminal, and registration information of the registration terminal is registered in the SIP server according to the registration request, wherein the registration information comprises location information and identity identification information corresponding to the registration terminal; the SIP server receives a connection request sent by a robot or a control terminal, and location information of a first target terminal correspondingly connected by the connection request is acquired through searching according to the connection request, wherein the connection request comprises the identity identification information; and the SIP server outputs the location information, which is acquired through searching, of the first target terminal to the robot or the control terminal sending the connection request so as to be provided for the robot or the control terminal sending the connection request to establish SIP communication with a target terminal according to the location information of the first target terminal. The invention further discloses a robot communication system. The method and the system disclosed by the invention improve the audio / video data transmission efficiency of the robot.

The invention relates to the technical field of building of architectural structures, in particular to a building method and apparatus of an architectural structure. The method comprises: manipulating a building robot to move along a preset trajectory to perform building construction. The building robot includes at least one of an aircraft and an execution robot walking close to a wall. The apparatus used herein is simple in structure and convenient to move and mount. The apparatus comprises a control device, a building robot and a construction device; the building robot includes at least one of an aircraft and an execution robot walking close to a wall; the construction device is in communication connection with the building robot; the control device is used for operating the building robot to move along a preset trajectory. The apparatus is simple in structure and convenient to move and mount, and a built architectural structure has high quality.

The invention relates to a robot communication system based on the electric power carrier wave technology and a method. The system comprises a robot, an electric power wire and an electric power carrier wave transformation device, wherein the robot is used for converting a signal source output signal needing transmission into a standard signal, the electric power wire is used for transmitting the signal in a carrier wave mode, the electric power carrier wave transformation device is connected with the robot and is used for receiving the standard signal sent by the robot, the standard signal is modulated at a high frequency carrier wave signal and is then emitted to the electric power wire for transmission, the electric power carrier wave transformation device is further used for filtering the high frequency modulation signal transmitted through the electric power wire from an electric line, and the frequency signal is demodulated into a voltage signal which is sent to a robot controller for remote control. Through the system and the method, use cost of the cable material and maintenance fee in a traditional cable communication mode are saved, and use reliability of the equipment is improved.

The invention provides an intelligent optimization method and system for multi-robot collaborative mapping. The method comprises the following steps: initializing a system; and establishing an initialglobal map. In a multi-robot intelligent optimization system, each robot detects an environment through a visual sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, an infrared sensor, a laser radar and other devices, target evaluation parameters are set in the motion planning process to construct a path planning method of a multi-robot automatic mapping task, and thus the cooperative mapping process of multiple robots to the environment is achieved. The system comprises a processor, a robot environment detection module, a robot communication interaction module and a memory. By means of the efficient algorithm, multiple robots can be efficiently and rapidly detected in a complex unknown environment to obtain an environment map.

The invention relates to the technical field of multi-agent genetic algorithms, in particular to a search algorithm and a verification method for swarm robots based on physarum polycephalum foraging. The swarm robots are divided into three types of robots which are named as CORE, BRANCH and FORAGER; operation processing steps of data comprise four phases, namely an initialization phase, a dispersion search phase, an edge search phase and a signal source attracting phase. According to the search algorithm and the verification method disclosed by the invention, search calculation is performed by adopting a mode of controlling the swarm robots to execute simulation of the physarum polycephalum foraging by pseudocodes; simulated experiment verification for a single signal source and multiple signal sources is realized by a simulation experiment platform; demonstration and verification of the single signal source are realized in a hardware simulation experiment, and thus better effects and conclusions for coverage search in a situation of limited communication radius of the robot are obtained by the algorithm disclosed by the invention, and a simple algorithm which less depends on robot communication and adapts to area coverage searching is realized; the algorithm has higher efficiency and application value for the area coverage searching.

The invention discloses a multi-robot communication networking method based on an improved ant colony AODV protocol. The method specifically comprises the steps of S1, querying whether a route reaching a target robot exists in a robot route list by a source robot node; S2, judging whether a robot node receiving an improved route request message is the target robot node or the route having the target robot; S3, judging whether an intermediate robot node has route information of the source robot node; S4, cycling the step S3 until the target robot is found; and S5, computing a route performancefunction value according to the parameter of each available route, setting the route with the maximum function value as a main route, and the route with the second maximum function value as a standbyroute. According to the method provided by the invention, through using the AODV protocol in adhoc network and the ant colony algorithm as bases, and comprehensively considering the robot network loadand motion speed, the route performance function is built, the optimal and secondary optimal communication routes are acquired for transmitting data, the end-to-end delay during multi-robot communication is effectively reduced, the throughput capacity is increased, and the route overheads are reduced.

The invention discloses a mowing robot communication method and system based on a boundary electromagnetic signal, and the method comprises the steps: receiving the boundary electromagnetic signal transmitted by a base station, wherein the boundary electromagnetic signal is a carrier signal formed by the modulation of a low-frequency source signal and a high-frequency signal, and the low-frequencysource signal comprises a complete periodic waveform and a non-complete periodic waveform; amplifying the boundary electromagnetic signal; filtering the amplified boundary electromagnetic signal; anddemodulating according to the filtered boundary electromagnetic signal to obtain the low-frequency source signal, identifying combined information of the complete periodic waveform and the non-complete periodic waveform in the low-frequency source signal, comparing the identified combined information with a preset action instruction, and executing a corresponding action according to a comparisonresult. Communication between the base station and the mowing robot is realized on the basis of not increasing the equipment cost and the anti-interference capability is high.

The embodiments of the invention provide a communication method and device, a medium, and an electronic device. The method comprises the following steps of: grouping robots of tenants in a cloud network to obtain robot grouping information; configuring a communication strategy between the robots in the robot grouping information; and transmitting the robot grouping information including the communication strategy to the gateways corresponding to the robots. The embodiments of the invention realize global communication of the terminals through the dedicated gateways, ensures the communication security by isolating the external networks, and also supports multiple tenants and robot grouping, so that the robots in the same group can communicate, and the communication functions of the robots connected to different gateways are realized.

The invention belongs to the technical field of communication, and provides an inspection robot communication system. Inspection data uploaded by an inspection robot is received through a base station, and the inspection data is uploaded to a central server; the central server generates an inspection instruction based on the inspection data and sends the inspection instruction to the base station;and the inspection instruction is sent to the inspection robot, and the inspection data is uploaded to the central server; and the inspection robot executes a corresponding action based on the inspection instruction. The problem that data delay or data loss is liable to occur when the inspection robot performs data transmission by adopting a public network in the inspection data transmission process is solved.

The invention discloses an underground robot communication control system based on a wireless sensor network. The system is applied to underground polling and accident rescue, and is particularly suitable for mines in which accidents such as gas explosions and fire disasters happen. An underground robot can reach areas with toxic and harmful gas which are unreachable for rescue workers. A rescue robot wireless communication control system is characterized in that on the basis of a multi-hop wireless sensor network technology, a method for building a new temporary wireless sensor network is provided in order that a wireless communication distance of the underground robot can increase continuously along with the advancing of the robot, and communications between the underground robot and control equipment are ensured. Through adoption of the underground robot communication control system, the problem of limited wireless communication distance between the underground robot and the control equipment under the condition that an original wireless communication system in a mine cannot be used is solved.

The invention discloses a transformer station inspection robot control system and method based on an Android platform. The transformer station inspection robot control system includes an Android platform client, a transformer station PC server, a transformer station inspection robot, a first wireless communication module and a second wireless communication module. The Android platform client is arranged on a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal is communicated with the transformer station inspection robot via the first wireless communication module, the transformer station PC server is disposed on a transformer station monitoring server, and the transformer station monitoring server is communicated with the transformer station inspection robot via the second wireless communication module. According to the invention, a tablet computer or a mobile phone can be used as the control terminal of the transformer station inspection robot, and another devices based on the Android platform also can be used as the control terminal; and compared with the remote control of a conventional computer, the control system provided is more convenient and improves the intelligent and portable level of the control of the transformer station inspection robot.

The invention relates to the field of software robot communication, and specifically discloses a software robot, a preparation method thereof, a passive robot communication network, and an application. The software robot comprises a main body and synapses, wherein a conducting coil is arranged in each synapse, and the conducting coils in the two symmetrically-arranged synapses at the head and thetail are interlinked; the main body is of a multi-section foldable structure; and the material of the main body comprises Nd2Fe14B magnetic powder and Ecoflex liquid-state silicone resin or liquid-state dimethyl siloxane. According to the software robot, the preparation method thereof, the passive robot communication network, and the application, the main body is capable of moving under the actionof an external magnetic field after being magnetized; and moreover, wireless signal communication can be carried out among the software robots by virtue of Faraday electromagnetic induction, so thatthe problem that communication cannot be carried out easily among the software robots, is solved, and then the software robot integrating controllable movement with communication capacity is provided;and the software robot is low in cost, simple in structure, flexible to move, high in adaption capacity to environment, and great in development prospect in the field of software robot communication.