Mobile Robot Route Guidance Using Time-Stamped Image Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile body systems, such as telepresence robots, lack user convenience in generating and utilizing route guidance information for efficient movement, as they rely on manual input and lack integrated systems for wireless communication and information processing.
Innovation Solution
A mobile body system equipped with an imaging unit, movement mechanism, and wireless communication unit, along with an information processor that generates route guidance information using external, input, and held information, enabling automated and efficient route planning and execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual input is used for route guidance information, then device complexity is reduced, but user convenience and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments information processing by dividing route guidance information into multiple components: external information from wireless communication, input information from user interface, and held information from storage unit. This segmentation allows automated processing while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular information handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The information generator is designed with multi-functionality, capable of integrating and processing three different types of information sources (external, input, and held information) to generate comprehensive route guidance. This universal processing capability improves user convenience without requiring separate systems for each information type.
2Productivity
If automated route guidance generation is implemented, then productivity and user convenience improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-storing relevant information in the storage unit and maintaining wireless communication channels open. This allows the information generator to quickly assemble route guidance by combining pre-prepared external information, input information, and held information, thereby improving productivity without proportionally increasing processing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The information generator acts as an intermediary component that mediates between multiple information sources (wireless communication unit, user interface unit, storage unit) and the movement mechanism. This intermediary role simplifies the overall system architecture by providing a centralized processing point, thereby improving productivity while managing information processing complexity.
3Reliability
If multiple information sources are integrated, then route guidance quality improves, but device complexity and information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments information processing by dividing route guidance information into multiple components: external information from wireless communication, input information from user interface, and held information from storage unit. This segmentation allows automated processing while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular information handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by continuously receiving external information through wireless communication and comparing it with held information and user input. This feedback loop ensures high route guidance accuracy by validating and updating route information in real-time, while the structured feedback process prevents information integration complexity from becoming unmanageable.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing method of an information processor includes: obtaining information received from a mobile body through a wireless communication, the mobile body including a movement mechanism and an imaging unit configured to capture image data, the information received from the mobile body including captured image data obtained by the imaging unit, with the captured image data being updated periodically; and generating route guidance information for use in moving the mobile body by the movement mechanism. The captured image data is stored together with data update time information. The route guidance information includes at least two selectable routes. The route guidance information is generated based on the captured image data, position information of the mobile body, and the data update time information.