Cooperative Robot Alert Mode for Abnormal Target Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing robot systems face challenges in coordinating service provision between individual robots and their users, as they often struggle to cooperate effectively while ignoring their own users' needs.
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 a monitoring target is in an abnormal state, allowing for both self-service provision and assistance to other users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a robot focuses on providing services to its own user, then service quality to its own user is improved, but ability to cooperate with other robots is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The robot is designed with multi-functionality to serve both its own user and assist other robots. The control unit can execute processes for its own monitoring target while also responding to alert mode transition request signals from other robots, enabling the robot to perform multiple roles including self-service provision and inter-robot cooperation
2Adaptability or versatility
If a robot transitions to alert mode frequently to assist other robots, then cooperation capability is improved, but service quality to its own user deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The robot dynamically adjusts its operational mode based on situational needs. The control unit determines whether to maintain normal mode for serving its own user or transition to alert mode for assisting other robots, allowing flexible adaptation between different service priorities without compromising either function
Solution Approach 2:
The robot receives alert mode transition request signals from other robots as feedback about their needs. The control unit processes these signals and determines appropriate responses, creating a feedback loop that enables cooperative behavior while maintaining awareness of its own service obligations
3Productivity
If multiple robots monitor different users independently, then service coverage is improved, but system coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Alert mode transition request signals serve as intermediaries between robots. Instead of requiring complex direct coordination between multiple robots and users, the signal mechanism enables simple information exchange that triggers appropriate responses, reducing coordination complexity while maintaining comprehensive service coverage
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AI summary
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 includes an acquiring unit that acquires sensing data related to the monitoring target, a communication unit that communicates with another nearby robot, and a control unit that controls 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. The robot transitions 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.