Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fabricator reducing the need for human labor during manufacture and more fully automating the manufacture and assembly processes.SOLUTION: A fabrication system includes a tool-head 706 for manufacturing, a first manipulator 702 and a second manipulator 704. The first manipulator supports and manipulates an item 710, and is configured to provide six-axes of movement for positioning of the item relative the tool-head. The second manipulator carries a component 712 and orients the component at a select orientation relative to the item supported on the first manipulator. The tool-head is configured to add material to at least one of the item and the component. The first and second manipulators provide at least six axes of fabrication for the tool-head.
Abstract in simplified Chinese:本发明揭露一系统与方法用来制约一机器人于一特定之空间中。该系统包括:一可携带障碍信号发送器,该可携带障碍信号发送器主要沿一轴发送信号;一可移动之机器人,可使一但侦测到该障碍信号即行回避该障碍信号。于一较佳实施例中,该障碍信号以一红外线的频率发射,而且该机器人包括一全方位的信号侦测器。一但侦测到该信号,该机器人掉头至由一障碍回避算法选定之方向上,直到不再侦测到该障碍信号为止。
Abstract:
A filtering device for an evacuation station includes a filter bag configured to collect debris evacuated from a cleaning robot by an evacuation station. The filtering device includes an interface assembly configured to interface with the evacuation station. The interface assembly includes (i) a base attached to the filter bag along an opening of the filter bag, (ii) an access door configured to provide or limit access to a space within the filter bag depending on whether the access door is in an open position or a closed position, and (iii) one or more hinges connecting the base to the access door. The access door is rotatable around the one or more hinges from the closed position to the open position.
Abstract:
Robot localization or mapping can be provided without requiring the expense or complexity an "at-a-distance" sensor, such as a camera, a LIDAR sensor, or the like. Landmark features can be created or matched using motion sensor data, such as odometry or gyro data or the like, and adjacency sensor data. Despite the relative ambiguity of adjacency-sensor derived landmark features, a particle filter approach can be configured to use such information, instead of requiring "at-a-distance" information from a constant stream of visual images from a camera, such as for robot localization or mapping. Landmark sequence constraints or a Wi-Fi signal strength map can be used together with the particle filter approach.