Mobile Robot Task Handover Across Overlapping Management Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional robot management systems for large numbers of mobile robots in wide areas require extensive data processing, leading to complexity and inefficiency in task management.
Innovation Solution
A robot management system that divides task management between separate units for overlapping areas, using a first and second robot management unit to execute narrow area tasks within their respective areas, with a wide area task accepted unit that sets and coordinates these tasks, including relay points for seamless handovers and battery management, and utilizes blockchain for secure information transfer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single centralized system manages tasks for a large number of mobile robots in a wide area, then task coordination is achieved, but the system becomes complicated and data processing becomes tremendously large
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the wide-area robot management system into multiple local management units, each responsible for a specific area. This segmentation reduces the complexity of the centralized system while maintaining task coordination capabilities across the entire wide area through distributed management.
2Device complexity
If separate local management units are used for different areas, then system complexity is reduced, but coordination of wide-area tasks becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple local management units into a unified wide-area management system that can coordinate tasks across different areas. This allows separate local units to maintain their simplicity while the overarching system provides wide-area task coordination through integrated management.
3Device complexity
If mobile robots operate autonomously without centralized management, then system complexity is reduced, but task execution efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic management structure where mobile robots can operate autonomously within their local areas while dynamically transitioning to coordinated operation when wide-area tasks are assigned. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to maintain low complexity during local operations while achieving high efficiency during coordinated wide-area tasks.
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AI summary
A robot management system includes: a first robot management unit that manages an activity of a first mobile robot taking a first area as an activity range; a second robot management unit that manages an activity of a second mobile robot taking a second area as an activity range; a wide area task accepting unit that accepts a wide area task involving movement from a first point in the first area to a second point in the second area; and a narrow area task setting unit that sets a first narrow area task including movement from the first point in the first area to a relay point in an overlap area and takeover processing to the second mobile robot at the relay point for supporting the second mobile robot to move to the second point, and a second narrow area task including the takeover processing from the first mobile robot 61 at the relay point.