Touch-Activated Robot Display Control via External Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Ordinary robots require complex circuits and connections, leading to increased manufacturing costs and user burden, limiting their motion and mode changes, making them expensive and difficult to operate.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that uses a touch pad to detect contact positions and change display images, allowing robots to change modes and perform motions without physical cables, using action detection and display control sections to interpret touch pad information and adjust robot appearances and actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If robots are equipped with complex circuits and connection cables to enable varied motions and mode changes, then the functionality and adaptability of robots are improved, but the manufacturing cost increases and user burden becomes heavier
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the control functionality from the robot itself and relocates it to the information processing device. The robot body is simplified to contain only basic motion control circuits and sensors, while complex mode change logic and coordination control are performed externally by the information processing device that receives touch pad inputs and generates appropriate motion commands.
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing device serves multiple functions: it acts as both the user interface (receiving touch pad inputs) and the motion control system (generating robot commands). This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate complex control circuits within the robot, as the external device handles all sophisticated control tasks.
2Adaptability or versatility
If robots are equipped with complex circuits and connection cables to enable varied motions and mode changes, then the functionality and adaptability of robots are improved, but the manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By extracting complex control functionality from the robot to an external information processing device, the patent significantly simplifies robot manufacturing. The robot only requires basic motion control circuits and sensors, which are much cheaper to produce than integrated complex control systems with multiple specialized circuits and connection terminals.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a simplified robot design with basic circuits that can be manufactured at low cost. The information processing device, which handles all sophisticated control tasks, serves as a reusable external resource, allowing multiple simple robots to share one complex control system, thereby reducing per-unit manufacturing costs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If robots are equipped with complex circuits and connection cables to enable varied motions and mode changes, then the functionality and adaptability of robots are improved, but the user burden becomes heavier
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the operational complexity from the robot and places it in the information processing device. Users interact only with the simple touch pad interface, while the information processing device automatically handles complex mode changes and coordinate control, eliminating the need for users to understand or configure complex robot settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing device automatically interprets touch pad inputs and generates appropriate robot motion commands without requiring user configuration. The system performs self-service by autonomously managing mode changes and coordinate transformations, freeing users from complex operational procedures while maintaining full adaptability.
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AI summary
A robot 150 is placed on a touch panel. When touch sensor action sections 156a to 156c provided on a bottom face 150b of the robot act on a touch pad, an information processing device shows a face image in a rectangular area 16 of a display screen 14 of the touch panel. The rectangular area 16 corresponds to the bottom face of the robot. The face image is grabbed from the bottom face 150b of the robot 150 and appears in a face section 152. Further, the brightness of pixels in areas 18a and 18b of the display screen 14 is changed. The areas 18a and 18b correspond to optical sensors 160a and 160b provided on the bottom face 150b of the robot. The robot 150 detects the change in question, converting the change into a motion of an internal actuator, sound output, light emission, and so on in accordance with predetermined rules.