Mobile Robot Route Selection for Building Security Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The adoption of robots in commercial and industrial settings, particularly in environments requiring frequent human-robot interactions, is hindered by the lack of technologies that effectively integrate robots with building infrastructure and security systems for enhanced security and operational efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A mobile robot system that integrates with building infrastructure and security systems, enabling security operations, navigation, inventory management, and human interaction through sensors, RFID readers, and communication interfaces, allowing it to patrol, detect security anomalies, and perform corrective actions while generating semantic maps and interacting with central systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a robot is deployed for security operations in commercial and industrial settings, then security monitoring capability is improved, but integration with building infrastructure and security systems is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The robot is designed with multi-functional capabilities including RFID readers for inventory management, sensors for security detection, and communication interfaces for integrating with building infrastructure systems. This allows a single robot platform to perform security operations, inventory management, and infrastructure communication, resolving the contradiction between reliability and adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the robot performs multiple operations including security, navigation, and inventory management, then operational versatility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple operational systems including RFID readers, sensors, navigation components, and communication interfaces are merged into a single integrated robot platform. This consolidation allows the robot to perform security operations, inventory management, and navigation while managing system complexity through unified architecture.
3Productivity
If the robot integrates with central building systems for real-time communication, then operational efficiency is improved, but communication infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The robot incorporates communication interfaces that act as intermediaries between the robot's operational systems and the central building management systems. This intermediary layer enables real-time communication and data exchange for improved operational efficiency while managing the complexity of infrastructure integration.
Data Source
AI summary
A mobile robot is configured for operation in a commercial or industrial setting, such as an office building or retail store. The robot can patrol one or more routes within a building, and can detect violations of security policies by objects, building infrastructure and security systems, or individuals. In response to the detected violations, the robot can perform one or more security operations. The robot can include a removable fabric panel, enabling sensors within the robot body to capture signals that propagate through the fabric. In addition, the robot can scan RFID tags of objects within an area, for instance coupled to store inventory. Likewise, the robot can generate or update one or more semantic maps for use by the robot in navigating an area and for measuring compliance with security policies.