公开(公告)号：US20170190048A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US15393647

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: Anthrotronix, Inc.

Inventor： Jack M. Vice ,  Anna D. Skinner ,  Joshua M. Nichols

IPC: B25J5/00

CPC classification number: B25J5/007 ,  B25J9/1617 ,  G05B2219/40306 ,  G05B2219/40405 ,  G05B2219/40442 ,  G05B2219/40572 ,  G05B2219/40621 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D1/0295 ,  G05D2201/0207 ,  Y10S901/01

Abstract: The embodiments relate to a distributed marsupial robotic system. The system includes a parent component having a sensor suite to obtain and process environment data via a parent pattern classification algorithm, and one or more child components each having a sensor suite to obtain and process environment data via a child pattern classification algorithm. Each sensor suite includes one or more sensor devices in communication with a processing unit and memory. Each child component is configured to dock to the parent component, and to separate from the parent component in response to a deployment signal. Each child component obtains environment data during separation. The parent component is configured to construct a map of the environment by receiving and integrating the data obtained by each child component.