Autonomous Mobile Robot Elevator Ride Determination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing autonomous mobile robots linked to elevators face challenges in determining whether they can ride in the same car as human passengers and navigating to their destination floors efficiently, as current systems lack the ability to autonomously manage ride conditions and space allocation.
Innovation Solution
An autonomous mobile robot system that includes a communication device, memory, and hardware processor, which receives ride conditions from the elevator control system, determines whether it can ride in the car based on a scheduled destination list, and moves to the designated position using a ride determination unit and movement control unit, while also considering environmental information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the autonomous mobile robot is allowed to ride in the elevator car with human passengers, then the robot can move between floors efficiently, but the safety and comfort of human passengers may be compromised due to lack of ride condition management
Solution Approach 1:
The robot acquires list information indicating ride conditions from the elevator control system and uses this feedback to autonomously determine whether to ride in the car. The system continuously monitors ride conditions and adjusts the robot's riding decisions based on this information, ensuring passenger safety while maintaining operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The robot autonomously determines its own ride eligibility by processing list information from the elevator control system. The ride determination unit independently evaluates whether the robot can ride based on acquired ride conditions, enabling the robot to self-manage its elevator usage without human intervention while ensuring passenger safety.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the robot autonomously determines ride conditions based on list information, then the robot can flexibly respond to passenger presence, but the system complexity increases due to additional determination logic
Solution Approach 1:
The elevator control system's existing list information functionality is extended to serve dual purposes: managing human passenger elevator requests and providing ride condition information for the robot. This multi-functional use of existing system components achieves adaptability without proportionally increasing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The list information acts as an intermediary data structure that mediates between the elevator control system and the robot's ride determination unit. This intermediary mechanism enables flexible ride condition assessment while keeping the determination logic relatively simple by relying on pre-structured information from the existing elevator control system.
3Loss of information
If the robot acquires list information from the elevator control system, then the robot can make informed ride decisions, but the communication and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The robot's communication device is integrated with its existing control system components, merging the functions of information acquisition, processing, and ride determination into a unified system. This consolidation reduces overall system complexity while ensuring complete availability of ride condition information for informed decision-making.
Data Source
AI summary
According to one embodiment, an autonomous mobile robot includes a communication device, a memory, and a hardware processor connected to the communication device and the memory. The communication device receives list information indicating ride conditions of a car from the elevator control system when transmitting a car call message to an elevator control system on a hall of any floor. The hardware processor includes a ride determination unit and a movement control unit. The ride determination unit determines whether the robot is able to ride in the car or not, based on the list information when the car arrives. The movement control unit allows the robot to ride in the car and move to a destination floor when the robot is able to ride.