Robotic Platform Teach-Repeat Mode for Modular Task Versatility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current robotic systems are designed for specific tasks, resulting in expensive and limited functionality, lacking the ability to perform a wide variety of tasks and adapt to changing environments.
Innovation Solution
A reconfigurable robotic platform with interchangeable service modules that can perform autonomous and interactive maintenance and surveillance, utilizing sensors and stored service plans to navigate and adapt to different tasks and environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If robotic systems are designed for specific tasks, then task performance reliability is improved, but device versatility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic platform is designed with a universal base unit that can accommodate multiple interchangeable service modules, each tailored for specific tasks. This allows a single platform to perform diverse functions (cleaning, surveillance, maintenance) while maintaining high reliability for each specific task through specialized modules.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is divided into a base robotic platform and separate interchangeable service modules. Each module is independently designed for specific tasks, allowing the system to segment functionality while maintaining overall versatility through module replacement.
2Productivity
If robotic systems are designed for specific tasks, then operational efficiency is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
A single universal robotic platform replaces multiple specialized systems, reducing overall device complexity while maintaining operational efficiency for each specific task through interchangeable modules. The base unit provides common navigation and control, avoiding redundancy across multiple systems.
3Reliability
If robotic systems are designed for specific tasks, then task specialization is improved, but adaptability to changing environments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic system dynamically adapts to changing environments and tasks by allowing replacement of service modules. The base platform maintains specialized capabilities through its modular architecture, enabling it to adjust its functionality based on environmental requirements while preserving task specialization.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and system for a robotic device comprising a propulsion mechanism, an orientation sensor, a stored digital map of a service area, a sensor for sensing objects, a navigation and orientation system, and a processing facility comprising a processor and a memory, the processing facility causing the robotic device to determine and store a pose position of the robotic device at a plurality of sequential locations as the robotic device is guided by a user along a path from a start location to an end location through the service area, and as commanded by the user and utilizing the navigation and orientation system, re-trace the path from the start location to the end location replicating the stored pose position of the robotic device at the plurality of sequential locations.