Multi-Robot Alert Mode Switching for Cooperative Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing robot systems face challenges in coordinating service provision between individual user-owned robots, making it difficult for them to cooperate effectively while ignoring their own users.
Innovation Solution
A robot system where each robot can identify monitoring targets, acquire sensing data, and communicate with nearby robots to transmit alert mode transition requests if an abnormal state is detected, allowing for both self-service provision and assistance to other users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If robots are designed to prioritize their own user's service, then service quality to individual users is improved, but cooperation with other robots becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The robot dynamically adjusts its service priority based on operational context. When monitoring its own user, it maintains high priority service. When detecting abnormalities in other robots' monitoring targets or receiving alert signals, it temporarily shifts to cooperative alert mode, enabling flexible adaptation between self-service and inter-robot cooperation
Solution Approach 2:
The robot primarily serves its own user through autonomous monitoring and alert generation. When abnormalities are detected in other robots' targets, the robot uses its own sensing capabilities and communication functions to provide assistance, effectively extending self-service functionality to support the broader robot system
2Adaptability or versatility
If robots cooperate to monitor multiple targets, then service coverage is improved, but coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is segmented into independent robot units, each responsible for its own monitoring target. When cooperation is needed, robots transmit alert signals containing specific abnormality information, and receiving robots selectively respond based on their capabilities, avoiding the need for complex centralized coordination while achieving expanded service coverage
Solution Approach 2:
Alert signals serve as intermediaries between robots. Instead of requiring direct complex coordination protocols, robots communicate through standardized alert signals that convey abnormality information, enabling simple yet effective cooperation through signal-based interaction rather than complex multi-robot coordination
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AI summary
[Object] To provide a mechanism which is capable of implementing both provision of a service to a robot's own user and assistance with provision of services to other users by other robots. [Solution] A robot in a robot system including a plurality of robots each having a function of identifying a monitoring target and transmitting information related to the monitoring target to a remote site, the robot including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire sensing data related to the monitoring target; a communication unit configured to communicate with another nearby robot; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit such that an alert mode transition request signal is transmitted to the other nearby robot if it is determined that a first monitoring target is in an abnormal state on a basis of the sensing data and transition to an alert mode in which a process according to the received alert mode transition request signal is performed if the alert mode transition request signal related to a second monitoring target is received.