Mobile Robot Zone Mapping for Indoor Device Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile robots lack the capability to effectively evaluate and optimize indoor environments for specific purposes, such as recommending suitable electronic devices or object placements based on environmental data.
Innovation Solution
A mobile robot equipped with communication circuitry, sensors, and a controller that collects environmental information, sets purposes for zones, and recommends target devices or object locations within those zones, optimizing their placement for improved harmony and functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If mobile robots collect and analyze environmental information to provide recommendations, then the usability and functionality of indoor spaces is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile robot is designed to perform multiple functions: autonomous navigation, environmental sensing, data collection, purpose setting, and recommendation generation. By integrating these diverse functions into a single system, the robot provides comprehensive indoor space optimization while managing complexity through unified design.
Solution Approach 2:
The robot autonomously collects environmental information, analyzes the data, sets purposes for zones, and generates recommendations without requiring external intervention. This self-service capability improves usability while the autonomous nature helps manage system complexity by reducing external control requirements.
2Ease of operation
If mobile robots evaluate environmental information to recommend device placements, then the harmony of indoor spaces is enhanced, but the loss of information increases due to complex data processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the most relevant environmental information and key features needed for recommendation generation, rather than processing all collected data. This extraction approach maintains harmony enhancement while reducing information loss by focusing on critical data points.
Solution Approach 2:
The robot applies different processing and analysis methods to different zones based on their specific characteristics and purposes. By tailoring the evaluation approach to local zone requirements, the system enhances harmony in each area while preserving the specific environmental information relevant to each zone's function.
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AI summary
A mobile robot is provided. The mobile robot includes a communication circuitry configured to communicate with at least one of a user device or a server, a sensor configured to collect environmental information of an indoor space, and a controller configured to be electrically connected to the sensor and the communication circuitry. The controller is configured to: store the environmental information of each of a plurality of zones of the indoor space obtained by the sensor, set a purpose of a first zone of the plurality of zones, based on a user input or the environmental information of each of the plurality of zones, and generate information recommending a target device to be placed in the first zone, based on environmental information of the first zone and required environmental information corresponding to the set purpose.