| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 700246000 | Combined with knowledge processing (e.g., natural language system) | 74 |
| 20080234862 | User Preference Interring Apparatus, User Profile Interring Apparatus, and Robot - An object of the present invention is to infer a user's preference or profile with a good precision. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080243305 | Central information processing system and method for service robot having layered information structure according to recognition and reasoning level - Provided are a central information processing system and a method for a service robot. The system includes a broker unit including at least one of interfaces for analyzing an information request from a corresponding service robot, transforming a format of the requested information to a robot-readable format, and transmitting the transformed information to the service robot, a spatial information manager for hierarchically composing and storing spatial information according to a recognition/reasoning level, searching spatial information requested by the broker unit, and returning the searched spatial information, an object information manager for hierarchically composing and storing object information about objects according to a recognition/reasoning level, searching object information requested by the broker unit, and returning the searched object information, and a space and object reasoning unit for searching and reasoning upper layer information about the object or space using lower layer information obtained from real environment or object, or searching and reasoning lower layer information to be used for comprehension of the object or space from upper layer information. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080281468 | VARIABLE PRIMITIVE MAPPING FOR A ROBOTIC CRAWLER - Varying modes of movement of a robotic crawler are provided by using a variable mapping from high-level (operator input) primitives into low-level primitives. The mapping is a function of environmental data sensed by the robotic crawler enabling the movement mode to be adapted to the environment. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090149991 | Communication Robot - A communication robot including: a situation change detection unit for detecting writing of information into a situation database; a rule detection unit for detecting, from a rule database, a rule corresponding to the situation indicated by the data stored in the situation database when the writing of information into the situation database is detected by the situation change detection unit; an action inducing parameter setting unit for setting the degree of interest of the detected rule to at least one of movable parts and an audio output unit independently in the situation database; a parameter changing unit for independently changing the degree of interest set for the at least one of the movable parts and the audio output unit; and a command unit for requesting the at least one of the movable parts and the audio output unit to execute the execution command indicated by the detected rule. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090157223 | ROBOT CHATTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A robot chatting system includes an interface for generating a chatting text including robot motion having a text part and a motion part; a robot chatting server for providing a robot chatting service between chatting persons, using the chatting text including robot motion; a first unit for generating motion control data corresponding to the motion part of the chatting text including robot motion; a second unit for converting the text part of the chatting text including robot motion into speech data; and a robot for outputting the speech data through a speaker and simultaneously motioning based on the motion control data. Therefore, when the user inputs text and its corresponding motions and sends the input text, the other user's robot reads the text and performs the relevant motions, thereby providing the robot chatting service of good quality. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090177321 | Robot for participating in a joint performance with a human partner - For a joint performance of a dialogue between a human partner and a robot, the robot analyzes phrase and action of the partner to detect a recognized behavior of the partner and analyzes a state of audience listening to utterances from the partner and the robot to detect a recognized state of the audience. A scenario describing the dialogue is stored in entries of a memory. The memory is successively referenced entry by entry and a check is made for a match between an utterance by the partner or the robot to a reaction from the audience. Responsive to a currently detected audience state, a corresponding robot behavior is determined. Preferably, possible partner's behaviors and expected audience states are mapped in a database to specified robot behaviors. The database is searched for a specified robot behavior corresponding to a currently sensed partner behavior or a currently sensed audience state. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090182453 | Robot for participating in a joint performance with a human partner - For a joint performance of a dialogue between a human partner and a robot, the robot analyzes phrase and action of the partner to detect a recognized behavior of the partner and analyzes a state of audience listening to utterances from the partner and the robot to detect a recognized state of the audience. A scenario describing the dialogue is stored in entries of a memory. The memory is successively referenced entry by entry and a check is made for a match between an utterance by the partner or the robot to a reaction from the audience. Responsive to a currently detected audience state, a corresponding robot behavior is determined. Preferably, possible partner's behaviors and expected audience states are mapped in a database to specified robot behaviors. The database is searched for a specified robot behavior corresponding to a currently sensed partner behavior or a currently sensed audience state. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090187278 | Adaptive Mobile Robot System with Knowledge-Driven Architecture - The invention integrates software and knowledge engineering with robotics technology to improve robot-to-robot and robot-to-human conversational interface and provide on-the-fly translations of situational requirements into adaptive behavior models and further down to service scenarios for a collaborative robot teams. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090254216 | Mobile robot control system - In a mobile robot control system, it is configured to input at least one of the desired position and orientation of the robot at a time when the robot reaches the desired position by manipulation of the operator, to control the motion of the robot based on the inputted desired position and orientation, and to display a first image indicative of the inputted desired position and orientation by numeric values or language including at least the numeric values and a second image indicative of the inputted desired position and orientation by graphics on a display. With this, the operator can check the desired position and orientation of the robot with both of the numeric values and graphics. As a result, it becomes possible to prevent the operator from manipulating erroneously and operate the robot to be moved or turned as desired by the operator. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254217 | Robotics Systems - A method of controlling a robot includes running multiple applications on a processor, where each application has a robot controller and an action selection engine. Each application is in communication with at least one behavior and at least one action model of at least part of the robot. The method includes running periodic action selection cycles on each action selection engine. Each action selection cycle includes selecting a command for each action space of each action model, generating a single overall command based on the accumulated commands for each action model, and sending the overall command to the robot controller for execution on the robot. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090276094 | Apparatus And Method For An Autonomous Robotic System For Performing Activities In A Well - An autonomous robot performs maintenance and repair activities in oil and gas wells, and in pipelines. The robot uses the well and pipeline fluids to provide most of the energy required for its mobility, and to charge a turbine from which it may recharge batteries or power a motor for additional propulsion. A control system of associated systems controls the robot, enabling the robot to share plans and goals, situations, and solution processes with wells, pipelines, and external control systems. The control system includes decision aids in a series of knowledge bases that contain the expertise in appropriate fields to provide intelligent behavior to the control system. The intelligent behavior of the control system enables real time maintenance management of wells and pipelines, through actively collecting information, goal-driven system, reasoning at multiple levels, context sensitive communication, activity performing, and estimation of the operators' intent. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090326710 | BEHAVIOR CONTROL SYSTEM - A behavior control system is capable of causing an agent carry out a task by smooth motions. The behavior control system makes it possible to reproduce a typical shape characteristic of a reference trajectory, i.e., the characteristic of a motion of an instructor carrying out a task, by using a first model defined on the basis of a plurality of reference trajectories representing the position of a first state variable in a time-series manner. Further, a learning trajectory representing the position of a second state variable in a time-series manner is generated on the basis of a second model, which represents an agent's motion in which the position of the second state variable corresponding to the first state variable and one or a plurality of time differential values (a displacing velocity and acceleration) thereof continuously change, in addition to the first model. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100138040 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING USER AND METHOD FOR DETECTING USER BY THE SAME - An apparatus for identifying a user in a service robot for domestic use is provided, the apparatus comprising a feature vector classifying unit for classifying feature vectors converted from a user voice signal for statistics into a feature vector not causing a user identification error and a feature vector causing the user identification error to thereby set user modes corresponding to the respective feature vectors for each user, and an identifying unit for identifying the user by utilizing the classification result of the feature vector classifying unit as data for the user identification. Accordingly, time restriction caused when the service robot for domestic use identifies who a user is can be overcome, and, the degradation of the user identification due to the lack of absolutely needed data amount when the user is identified only by the user's short voice can be solved. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100168913 | Robot and method for controlling the same - A robot and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. The robot determines a presence or absence of a non-registration object if a registered object is not present in a photographing area, obtains an object name by communicating with a user if the presence of the non-registration object is decided, and additionally registers the object name in a database. Therefore, the robot recognizes the non-registration object present in the photographing area. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100222924 | ROBOT WITH AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF TASK-SPECIFIC REPRESENTATIONS FOR IMITATION LEARNING - The invention proposes a method for imitation-learning of movements of a robot, wherein the robot performs the following steps:
| 09-02-2010 |
| 20100228393 | Neuronal network structure and method to operate a neuronal network structure - A neuronal network structure including a plurality of automata interconnected one with each other through synaptic links forming a connectivity matrix. The neural network structure acts as a machine that can be operated such that the machine shows different behaviours including periodic and non-periodic patterns, multistable patterns and more complex patterns such as spirals. A method to operate a neuronal network structure. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100249999 | LEARNING AND USE OF SCHEMATA IN ROBOTIC DEVICES - A robotic controller using schemata, the schemata being a set of parameterized sequences of motor commands in order to make a robot to achieve a set goal, the parameters of the sequences being gained from the state variables of the robotic controller, a robotic controller comprising an interface for supplying sensory input to the robotic controller. A schemata state memory ( | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100262286 | DECISION MAKING MECHANISM, METHOD, MODULE, AND ROBOT CONFIGURED TO DECIDE ON AT LEAST ONE PROSPECTIVE ACTION OF THE ROBOT - A decision mechanism is configured to decide on at least one prospective action of a robot from set of actions by: computing a prior probabilistic representation of a prior environment state; updating the prior probabilistic representation with targets of a new observation on reducing at least one uncertainty in a posterior probabilistic representation of a posterior environment state to be reached after an appliance of the at least one prospective action, the posterior probabilistic representation resulting from the updating; determining an information gain between the prior probabilistic representation and the posterior probabilistic representation by use of at least one information theoretic measure; evaluating the at least one prospective action by adding costs of executing the at least one prospective action to the information gain. Furthermore, an improved action planning for robots is provided and can be implemented in various robots investigating scenes for their actions. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100274387 | METHOD OF ACCURATE MAPPING WITH MOBILE ROBOTS - A robotic mapping method includes scanning a robot across a surface to be mapped. Locations of a plurality of points on the surface are sensed during the scanning. A first of the sensed point locations is selected. A preceding subset of the sensed point locations is determined. The preceding subset is disposed before the first sensed point location along a path of the scanning. A following subset of the sensed point locations is determined. The following subset is disposed after the first sensed point location along the path of the scanning. The first sensed point location is represented in a map of the surface by an adjusted first sensed point location. The adjusted first sensed point location is closer to each of the preceding and following subsets of the sensed point locations than is the first sensed point location. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100292838 | Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Humanoid Robot Fall - A system and method is disclosed for predicting a fall of a robot having at least two legs. A learned representation, such as a decision list, generated by a supervised learning algorithm is received. This learned representation may have been generated based on trajectories of a simulated robot when various forces are applied to the simulated robot. The learned representation takes as inputs a plurality of features of the robot and outputs a classification indicating whether the current state of the robot is balanced or falling. A plurality of features of the current state of the robot, such as the height of the center of mass of the robot, are determined based on current values of a joint angle or joint velocity of the robot. The current state of the robot is classified as being either balanced or falling by evaluating the learned representation with the plurality of features of the current state of the robot. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110035050 | Method and apparatus to plan motion path of robot - If a manipulator of a robot falls in local minima when expanding a node to generate a path, the manipulator may efficiently escape from local minima by any one of a random escaping method and a goal function changing method or a combination thereof to generate the path. When the solution of inverse kinematics is not obtained due to local minima or when the solution of inverse kinematics is not obtained due to an inaccurate goal function, an optimal motion path to avoid an obstacle may be efficiently searched for. The speed to obtain the solution may be increased and thus the time consumed to search for the optimal motion path may be shortened. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035051 | Path planning apparatus and method for robot - Disclosed herein are a path planning apparatus and a method for a robot to plan an optimal path along which a manipulator of a robot moves to a goal point from a start point. An obstacle within a prescribed angle on a straight line connecting a start point and a goal point is recognized as a middle point in a configuration space and arbitrary points separated from the middle point by a prescribed distance are selected. Among the selected points, arbitrary points which can directly connect the start point and the goal point without passing the obstacle are selected as waypoints to map a new middle node. A path is extended via the middle node and extension of a tree in a wrong direction is minimized so that the manipulator is not struck at local minima without depending greatly on a goal score, thereby improving the performance of path planning and rapidly searching for a path. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110060459 | ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed are a robot deciding a robot's task operation by separating raw information from specific information and a method of controlling the robot. The robot includes an information separation unit to separate raw information and specific information, an operation decision unit to decide a task operation of a robot by inferring a circumstance, a user's intention, task content, and detailed task information from the separated information, and a behavior execution unit to operate the robot in response to the decided task operation of the robot. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110071674 | INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SERVICE ROBOTS - Disclosed herein is a user interface apparatus and control method for the control of service robots. The user interface apparatus for the control of service robots includes an interaction server, an index block, and a robot control server. The interaction server receives control commands to control a service robot from a user, analyzes the control commands, and outputs the results of the analysis to the user. The index block determines the degree of difficulty of each of the analyzed control commands. The robot control server determines the operating mode of the service robot depending on the analyzed control command and the degree of difficulty, and controls the service robot in the determined operating mode. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110098856 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR LEGGED MOBILE ROBOT - A control device for a legged mobile robot has a first motion determiner which sequentially determines the instantaneous value of a first motion of a robot by using a first dynamic model and a second motion determiner which sequentially determines the instantaneous value of a second motion of the robot by using a second dynamic model, and sequentially determines a desired motion of the robot by combining the first motion and the second motion. A low frequency component and a high frequency component of a feedback manipulated variable having a function for bringing a posture state amount error, which indicates the degree of the deviation of an actual posture of the robot from a desired posture, close to zero are fed back to the first motion determiner and the second motion determiner, respectively. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110098857 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR LEGGED MOBILE BODY - A desired motion determiner of a control unit of a legged mobile robot determines a leg motion parameter specifying the motion trajectory of a distal end of a leg of the robot on the basis of the information on a floor geometry of an environment in which the robot travels and a requirement related to a travel route of the robot, thereby sequentially determining the desired motion of the robot. A floor geometry information output unit which outputs floor geometry information to the desired motion determiner outputs floor geometry information in which a rising surface of a stepped portion of a predetermined type, the contact thereof with a leg of the robot should be avoided, has been shaped into a surface having a gentler slope than an actual rising surface. The desired motion determiner determines the leg motion parameter such that the leg will not come in contact with the stepped portion having the shaped rising surface. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110106306 | PATH PLANNING APPARATUS OF ROBOT AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A path planning apparatus of a robot smoothes a motion path while satisfying a constraint. In a configuration space where a manipulator of a robot performs a task, a Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) path which extends from a start point and reaches a goal point may be smoothed while satisfying a constraint to generate a stable motion path. Accordingly, path planning performance is improved and an optimal path satisfying a kinematic constraint may be rapidly obtained. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106307 | PATH PLANNING APPARATUS OF ROBOT AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - An apparatus, method and computer-readable medium planning a path of a robot by planning an optimal path while satisfying a dynamic constraint. In a process of searching for a motion path from a start point to a goal point while extending a tree from a start point of a configuration space to generate a path, along which a manipulator of the robot is moved in order to perform a task, an optimal path is generated responsive to the dynamic constraint of the manipulator of the robot to generate stable motion satisfying momentum and Zero Moment Position (ZMP) constraint. Accordingly, path planning performance is improved and a path satisfying a kinematic constraint and a dynamic constraint is rapidly obtained. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110144804 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXPRESSING ROBOT AUTONOMOUS EMOTIONS - A device for expressing robot autonomous emotions comprises: a sensing unit; a user emotion recognition unit, recognizing current user emotional states after receiving sensed information from the sensing unit, and calculating user emotional strengths based on the current user emotional states; a robot emotion generation unit, generating robot emotional states based on the user emotional strengths; a behavior fusion unit, calculating a plurality of output behavior weights by a fuzzy-neuro network based on the user emotional strengths and a rule table; and a robot reaction unit, expressing a robot emotional behavior based on the output behavior weights and the robot emotional states. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110153077 | COMPONENT INTEGRATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATION OF HETEROGENEOUS ROBOT - Provided is a technique that enables a robot to be remotely controlled (by a server) and enables a robot component to access an external component (a component of a server) in order for cooperation of heterogeneous robots operating on the basis of different component models. A component integration apparatus for collaboration of a heterogeneous robot according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a standard interface unit that provides a common standard interface for controlling components that control the individual functions of the robot; an adapter component that transmits commands to enable external components to call the components through the standard interface unit; and a proxy component that transmits commands to enable the components to call the external components through the standard interface unit. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110166703 | CONTROL METHOD DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR ROBOT APPLICATIONS - A method, controller and control system for controlling a robot that is used in concert with at least one other robot to perform an operation on one or more work objects. Each robot controller checks whether a common reference value is not acceptable, and if so, provides a signal for the robot to wait before proceeding to the next task. Each robot controller also checks whether the target object is in the correct position or not; and also checks whether or not another robot has stopped. If either another robot has stopped and/or if the work object is not in the right position, the robot waits. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110172818 | TRAJECTORY PLANNING METHOD, TRAJECTORY PLANNING SYSTEM AND ROBOT - A trajectory planning system obtains a trajectory for controlling a state of an object toward a goal state. The system includes a search tree generating section which registers a state of the object as a root of a search tree in a state space, registers a next state of the object after a lapse of a predetermined time interval obtained through dynamical relationships during the time interval as a branch of the search tree in the state space. The system further includes a known-state registration tree storing section which stores a known-state registration tree and a known-state registration tree generating section which determines a cell to which the next state belongs among a plurality of cells previously prepared by segmenting the state space, determines whether or not a state which belongs to the cell has already been registered as a branch of the known-state registration tree, discards the next state when a state which belongs to the cell has been registered, and registers the next step as a branch of the known-state registration tree when a state which belongs to the cell has not been registered. The system further includes a trajectory generating section which selects a state whose distance to the goal state is minimum among states registered as branches of the known-state registration tree and obtains a trajectory using a sequence of states in a backward direction from the state toward the root of the known-state registration tree. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110208354 | ROBOT WITH LEARNING CONTROL FUNCTION - A robot with a learning control function is disclosed. The robot includes a robot mechanism unit, a learning control unit for obtaining data on positional deviation of the robot mechanism unit upon execution of a task program and executing a learning control for calculating a learning correction amount in order to decrease the positional deviation of the robot mechanism unit below a certain value, a normal control unit for executing a learning operation of the robot mechanism unit in order to obtain the data during the learning control and executing an actual operation of the robot mechanism unit based on the learning correction amount calculated by the learning control unit after executing the learning control, and an anti-exception processing unit for executing an anti-exception process in the case where an exception process occurs during the learning operation or the actual operation. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208355 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ROBOT ARM, ROBOT, CONTROL PROGRAM FOR ROBOT ARM, AND ROBOT ARM CONTROL-PURPOSE INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - Motion information of a robot arm stored in a motion information database is acquired. A person manipulates the robot arm, and correction motion information at the time of the motion correction is acquired. An acquiring unit acquires environment information. A motion correction unit corrects the motion information while the robot arm is in motion. A control rule generating unit generates a control rule for allowing the robot arm to automatically operate based on the corrected motion information and the acquired environment information. The motion of the robot arm is controlled based on the generated control rule. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110218672 | Robot Capable of Exchanging Behavior-Coding Computer Programs - The invention relates to a robot comprising storage means designed to store at least one computer program which, when executed, causes the robot to act according to a particular behavior, characterized in that it comprises loading means able to load, from remote computer equipment, a computer program which, when executed, causes the robot to act according to a particular behavior, and saving means able to save the duly loaded computer program in said storage means. Said loading means are designed to transmit a load request to the remote equipment to initiate the loading of the computer program from the remote equipment. The robot comprises at least one memory for storing evolution parameters, and the loading means are also designed to transmit the request according to the evolution parameters. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110231016 | TEMPORAL TRACKING ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM - A temporal controller for mobile robot path planning includes a sensor module for receiving data corresponding to spatial locations of at least one object, and a temporal control module operatively coupled to the sensor module, the temporal control module configured to predict future locations of the at least one object based on data received by the sensor module. The controller further includes a temporal simulation module operatively coupled to the temporal control module, wherein the temporal simulation module configured to use the predicted future locations of the at least one object to simulate multiple robot motion hypothesis for object avoidance and trajectory planning. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110238211 | ROBOT DEVICE, REMOTE CONTROL METHOD OF ROBOT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a robot device including a behavior plan unit that detects a current status of the robot device or an external environment and that decides one behavior plan of a plurality of behavior plan candidates as a future behavior plan, based on the current status, and a display control unit that decides one display pattern of a plurality of previously prepared display pattern candidates as display content to be displayed on a remote control device that remotely controls the robot device based on the decided behavior plan and that cause the remote control device to display the display pattern decided by the behavior plan unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238212 | ROBOT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD CARRIED OUT BY THE ROBOT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA - A robot apparatus, method and computer program storage device use a memory that stores cueing point information and user information to assist a user in an external environment. The cueing points are distributed within an environmental map held by the robot apparatus, and when the user is detected by the robot apparatus as approaching a predetermined region within the external environment classified as a cueing point, the robot apparatus reacts by providing a cue to the user. The cue may user-specific, or optionally provided based on a level of care required by the user. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110301755 | Robotic Watering Unit - The different illustrative embodiments provide a method and system for watering plants. A map of an area is received and a determination is made using a processing unit as to whether the area needs water. If the area needs water, current constraints are identified and a determination is made using the processing system as to whether the current constraints allow for watering. If the current constraints allow for watering, a watering solution application plan is generated using the processing system, and the watering solution application plan is executed using a mobile utility vehicle. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120078416 | ROBOT AND BEHAVIOR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - A robot and a behavior control system for the same are capable of ensuring continued stability while carrying out a specified task by a motion of a body of the robot. Time-series changing patterns of first state variables indicating a motional state of an arm are generated according to a stochastic transition model such that at least one of the first state variables follows a first specified motion trajectory for causing the robot to carry out a specified task. Similarly, time-series changing patterns of second state variables indicating a motional state of the body are generated according to the stochastic transition model such that the second state variables satisfy a continuously stable dynamic condition. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120089253 | GUIDING DEVICE FOR GUIDING MOBILE ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANER TO CHARGING BASE - A guiding device for guiding a mobile robotic vacuum cleaner to a charging base is composed of a central sensor, a left sensor, and a right sensor. The mobile robotic vacuum cleaner is composed of a main processor and a driving system. The charging base includes an optical emitter for emitting optical signals toward a predetermined direction. The central sensor, the right sensor, and the left sensor are electrically connected with the main processor and mounted to a charging sensor set zone. In this way, the main processor can judge whether the mobile robotic device correctly moves toward the charging base according to the signals detected by the sensors and then adjustably control the moving direction of the mobile robotic vacuum cleaner via the driving system to guide the mobile robotic vacuum cleaner to accurately move toward the charging base. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120116584 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ROBOT INTERACTION SERVICES USING INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOR MODEL - An apparatus for providing robot interaction services using an interactive behavior model for interaction between a user and a robot includes: a control module having a behavior model engine for receiving an observation signal from the outside and determining and outputting an interactive behavior signal based on previously stored behavior and policy models; a robot application module for executing a robot application service and applying the behavior signal to provide the service; a robot function operating module having sensors for observing an external circumstance and a function operating means for performing behavior or function of the robot; and a middleware module for extracting external circumstance observation information and service history information and inputting the information to the control module as the observation signal, and for analyzing the behavior signal to generate and provide motion and function operating signals to the robot function operating module. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120150346 | System and Method of Distributed Control of an Interactive Animatronic Show - A system of distributed control of an interactive animatronic show includes a plurality of animatronic actors, at least one of the actors a processor and one or more motors controlled by the processor. The system also includes a network interconnecting each of the actors, and a plurality of sensors providing messages to the network, where the messages are indicative of processed information. Each processor executed software that schedules and/or coordinates an action of the actor corresponding to the processor in accordance with the sensor messages representative of attributes of an audience viewing the show and the readiness of the corresponding actor. Actions of the corresponding actor can include animation movements of the actor, responding to another actor and/or responding to a member f the audience. The actions can result in movement of at least a component of the actor caused by control of the motor. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120158175 | WALKING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A walking robot and a control method thereof. The control method includes storing angle change data according to time corresponding to at least one joint unit of the robot using human walking data, extracting reference knot points from the angle change data according to time, and generating a reference walking trajectory using the extracted reference knot points, calculating a walking change factor to perform change between walking patterns of the robot, generating a target walking trajectory through an arithmetic operation between the reference walking trajectory and the calculated walking change factor, calculating a control torque to track the generated target walking trajectory, and transmitting the calculated control torque to the at least one joint unit so as to control walking of the robot, thereby achieving various walking patterns through a comparatively simple arithmetic operation process. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120239191 | REAL TIME EXPLOSIVE HAZARD INFORMATION SENSING, PROCESSING, AND COMMUNICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS OPERATION - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses provide robotic explosive hazard detection. A robot intelligence kernel (RIK) includes a dynamic autonomy structure with two or more autonomy levels between operator intervention and robot initiative A mine sensor and processing module (ESPM) operating separately from the RIK perceives environmental variables indicative of a mine using subsurface perceptors. The ESPM processes mine information to determine a likelihood of a presence of a mine. A robot can autonomously modify behavior responsive to an indication of a detected mine. The behavior is modified between detection of mines, detailed scanning and characterization of the mine, developing mine indication parameters, and resuming detection. Real time messages are passed between the RIK and the ESPM. A combination of ESPM bound messages and RIK bound messages cause the robot platform to switch between modes including a calibration mode, the mine detection mode, and the mine characterization mode. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120316676 | INTERACTIVE ROBOT INITIALIZATION - Initial interaction between a mobile robot and at least one user is described herein. The mobile robot captures several images of its surroundings, and identifies existence of a user in at least one of the several images. The robot then orients itself to face the user, and outputs an instruction to the user with regard to the orientation of the user with respect to the mobile robot. The mobile robot captures images of the face of the user responsive to detecting that the user has followed the instruction. Information captured by the robot is uploaded to a cloud-storage system, where information is included in a profile of the user and is shareable with others. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130035790 | FINDING A CALLED PARTY - A method is provided for initiating a telepresence session with a person, using a robot. The method includes receiving a request to host a telepresence session at the robot and receiving an identification for a target person for the telepresence session by the robot. The robot then searches a current location for a person. If a person is found, a determination is made regarding whether the person is the target person. If the person found is not the target person, the person is prompted for a location for the target person. The robot moves to the location given by the person in response to the prompt. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130041504 | PORTABLE REMOTE CONTROLLER AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM - A portable remote controller includes a display color setting unit, a display color information storage unit, and a teaching data display unit. The display color setting unit sets display colors for instructions for making a robot execute a predetermined behavior. The display color information storage unit stores the display colors set by the display color setting unit in association with the instructions. The teaching data display unit displays teaching data created by teaching on a display unit on the basis of the display colors. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130054025 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises an obtaining unit configured to obtain sensing data on an area including an installation target component; a detection unit configured to detect a position/orientation of the installation target component as a component position/orientation based on the sensing data; a setting unit configured to set, based on the component position/orientation and shape data on the installation target component, a candidate gripped portion of the installation target component to be gripped by a hand mechanism; a calculation unit configured to calculate, as a candidate hand position/orientation, a position/orientation of the hand mechanism in which the candidate gripped portion can be gripped; and a generation unit configured to generate candidate teaching data for gripping operation by the hand mechanism by associating the candidate gripped portion and the candidate hand position/orientation with each other. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130073080 | ADAPTIVE CRITIC APPARATUS AND METHODS - A control apparatus and methods using context-dependent difference learning for controlling e.g., a plant. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an actor module and a critic module. The actor module provides a control signal for the plant. The actor module is subject to adaptation, which is performed to optimize control strategy of the actor. The adaptation is based upon the reinforcement signal provided by the critic module. The reinforcement signal is calculated based on the comparison of a present control performance signal observed for a certain context signal, with a control performance signal observed for the same context in the past. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073081 | DEVICE FOR POSITIONING SUBMARINE PIPELINE ROBOTS AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a device for positioning submarine pipeline robots and method. The device comprises a pressure wave generator and a device for pressure wave acquiring and processing. The method comprises the following steps of (1) determining the generation mode; (2) acquiring pressure signals; (3) filtering pressure signals; (4) dividing the filtered pressure signals of into the same group; (5) identifying the data during this period in real time; (6) determining the moving state of the robot in the pipeline; (7) calculating the position of the robot in the pipeline; (8) ending the operations, otherwise repeating Step 4 to Step 7 continuously. The present invention has the advantages that the position of submarine pipeline robots can be located in real time. In addition, the severe environment around the pipelines can hardly affect the performance under this method. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130138245 | ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A robot, which may accurately detect whether or not the robot is gripping an object, even without a tactile sensor, as a result of using a sorter that utilizes a torque generated from a joint of a hand and the shape of the hand as feature data, and a control method for the robot includes a state sensing unit to sense a state of the robot, a feature vector producing unit to extract feature data from the state sensing unit and to produce a feature vector using the feature data, and a learning-based data sorter to judge an operating state of the robot using the feature vector produced by the feature vector producing unit and to output the judged result. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130158707 | METHODS OF ROBOT BEHAVIOR GENERATION AND ROBOTS UTILIZING THE SAME - A method of generating a behavior of a robot includes measuring input data associated with a plurality of user responses, applying an algorithm to the input data of the plurality of user responses to generate a plurality of user character classes, storing the plurality of user character classes in a database, classifying an individual user into a selected one of the plurality of user character classes by generating user preference data, selecting a robot behavior based on the selected user character class, and controlling the actions of the robot in accordance with the selected robot behavior during a user-robot interaction session. The selected user character class and the user preference data are based at least in part on input data associated with the individual user. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130211587 | Space Exploration with Human Proxy Robots - A system and method of space exploration with a human-controlled proxy robot surrogates is disclosed. The method includes: training the human controlled proxy robot surrogates using human handlers; controlling the human-controlled proxy robot surrogates using the human handlers; and deploying a plurality of human-controlled proxy robot surrogates for extraterrestrial missions, missions on Earth, the Moon, and near-Earth locations. Each of the human-controlled proxy robot surrogates are in communication with each of the human handlers and wherein each one of the plurality of proxy robot surrogates is paired with each one of the plurality of human handlers. The human-controlled proxy robot surrogates further comprise an artificial intelligence (AI). The artificial intelligence of the disclosed method includes learned behavior. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130218335 | PROCEDURAL MEMORY LEARNING AND ROBOT CONTROL - Methods and apparatus for procedural memory learning to control a robot by demonstrating a task action to the robot and having the robot learn the action according to a similarity matrix of correlated values, attributes, and parameters obtained from the robot as the robot performs the demonstrated action. Learning is done by an artificial neural network associated with the robot controller, so that the robot learns to perform the task associated with the similarity matrix. Extended similarity matrices can contain integrated and differentiated values of variables. Procedural memory learning reduces overhead in instructing robots to perform tasks. Continued learning improves performance and provides automatic compensation for changes in robot condition and environmental factors. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130345863 | USER INTERFACES FOR ROBOT TRAINING - In accordance with various embodiments, a user interface embedded into a robot facilitates robot training via direct and intuitive physical interactions. In some embodiments, the user interface includes a wrist cuff that, when grasped by the user, switches the robot into zero-force gravity-compensated mode. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140081454 | Brain Machine Interface utilizing a Discrete Action State Decoder in Parallel with a Continuous Decoder for a Neural Prosthetic Device - A brain machine interface for control of prosthetic devices is provided. In its control, the interface utilizes parallel control of a continuous decoder and a discrete action state decoder. In the discrete decoding, we not only learn states affiliated with the task, but also states related to the velocity of the prosthetic device and the engagement of the user. Moreover, we not only learn the distributions of the neural signals in these states, but we also learn the interactions/transitions between the states, which is crucial to enabling a relatively higher level of performance of the prosthetic device. Embodiments according to this parallel control system enable us to reliably decode not just task-related states, but any “discrete action state,” in parallel with a neural prosthetic “continuous decoder,” to achieve new state-of-the-art levels of performance in brain-machine interfaces. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140249673 | ROBOT FOR GENERATING BODY MOTION CORRESPONDING TO SOUND SIGNAL - A robot includes a storage unit, a receiving unit, a central control unit, and an implementation unit. The storage unit is used for storing a body motion script database. The receiving unit is used for receiving a sound signal. The central control unit is used for outputting a motion arrangement description file according to the messages of the sound signal, reading a corresponding body motion script from the body motion script database according to the motion arrangement description file, and generating a motion arrangement command according to the body motion script. The implementation unit includes a control circuit and a driving device. The control circuit is used for generating a control signal in response to the motion arrangement command. According to the control signal, the driving device is controlled to drive at least one moving part of the robot to generate a corresponding body motion according to the sound signal. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140249674 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING SUBSTRATE TRANSPORTATION PATH, SUBSTRATE TRANSPORTING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A substrate transportation path is determined by first determining a trajectory of a first straight line passing through a start point, calculating a trajectory of a circular arc in contact with the first straight line, calculating a trajectory of a second straight line in contact with the circular arc and passing through the end point, then, if the position of the end point is changed, re-calculating the second straight line as a straight line passing through the changed end point and in contact with the circular arc, and allowing the center of the substrate holding unit to move on the first straight line, and then, move on the circular arc from a first contact point, followed by moving on the second straight line from a second contact point so as to reach the end point. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140288705 | Humanoid Fall Damage Reduction - A robot controller controls a robot during a fall to reduce the damage to the robot upon impact. The robot controller causes the robot to achieve a tripod-like posture having three contact points (e.g., two hands and one foot) so that the robot motion in arrested with its center of mass (CoM) high above the ground. This prevents a large impact caused by the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy during the fall. The optimal locations of the three contacts are learned through a machine learning algorithm. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20150094851 | ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD - A robot control system detects a position and a direction of each user by a plurality of range image sensors provided in an exhibition hall. A central controller records an inspection action after a user attends the exhibition hall until the user leaves to generate an inspection action table. When the user attends again, the central controller reads a history of inspection action from the inspection action table. Then, the central controller chooses from an utterance content table an utterance content containing a phrase that mentions the inspection action included in the history at a time of last time attendance, determines the utterance content, and makes a robot output the determined utterance content to the user. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150100157 | ROBOT CAPABLE OF INCORPORATING NATURAL DIALOGUES WITH A USER INTO THE BEHAVIOUR OF SAME, AND METHODS OF PROGRAMMING AND USING SAID ROBOT - A humanoid robot is provided, the robot being capable of holding a dialog with at least one user, the dialog using two modes of voice recognition, one open and the other closed, the closed mode being defined by a concept characterizing a dialog sequence. The dialog may also be influenced by events that are neither speech nor a text. The robot is capable of executing behaviors and generating expressions and emotions. It has the advantage of considerably reducing programming time and latency of execution of dialog sequences, providing a fluency and naturalness close to human dialogs. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150120043 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A ROBOT AND USER - Methods and systems for facilitating interactions between a robot and user are provided. The system may include a robot and an electronic device communicatively coupled to the robot. The robot may include a plurality of actuators ones of which are configured to cause a mechanical action of at least one component of the robot, a plurality of interaction inducing components operatively connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of actuators, at least one sensor configured to detect at least one action of a user, a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including computer readable program code embodied therein that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: receive a task; identify, based on similarity to the task received, a similar task from a database stored in the memory, the database including at least one stored task-solution pair; execute the solution associated with the similar task; and store a new task-solution pair responsive to the robot performing a solution relating to the task. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150298315 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO FACILITATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THERAPEUTIC ROBOTICS - Some embodiments include a robot that may be used to facilitate education and/or therapy. The robot can include a head section configured to interface with a mobile device to control the robot. The robot can also include a tail section having a movement device controlled by the mobile device and a battery to power the movement device. The robot can have a furry exterior to emulate an intelligent pet. A remote controller can communicate with the mobile device to communicate or activate lesson or therapy commands. The remote controller can provide a design interface to configure the lesson or therapy commands. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150352718 | CONTROLLER FOR MULTIPLE ROBOT USING WIRELESS TEACHING PENDANT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - A multiple robot control apparatus using a teaching pendant and a control method thereof. The method of controlling a plurality of robots by a teaching pendant based on an access point (AP) includes the steps of: transmitting first information to the AP by the teaching pendant; transmitting the first information to a plurality of related master boards by the AP; outputting a drive pulse signal using the first information by each of the plurality of master boards; and operating the plurality of robots respectively connected to the plurality of master boards according to the drive pulse signal, in which the teaching pendant operates on an Android platform, and the teaching pendant, the AP and the plurality of motion master boards communicate using at least either a short range communication or a wireless communication. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150355639 | REAL TIME EXPLOSIVE HAZARD INFORMATION SENSING, PROCESSING, AND COMMUNICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS OPERATION - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses provide robotic explosive hazard detection. A robot intelligence kernel (RIK) includes a dynamic autonomy structure with two or more autonomy levels between operator intervention and robot initiative A mine sensor and processing module (ESPM) operating separately from the RIK perceives environmental variables indicative of a mine using subsurface perceptors. The ESPM processes mine information to determine a likelihood of a presence of a mine. A robot can autonomously modify behavior responsive to an indication of a detected mine. The behavior is modified between detection of mines, detailed scanning and characterization of the mine, developing mine indication parameters, and resuming detection. Real time messages are passed between the RIK and the ESPM. A combination of ESPM bound messages and RIK bound messages cause the robot platform to switch between modes including a calibration mode, the mine detection mode, and the mine characterization mode. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160031086 | MOBILE COLLABORATIVE ROBOT - A mobile collaborative robot includes a force sensor which is provided on a robot support on a carriage, a robot information acquisition unit which acquires robot information including posture information of the robot main body and load information of a load acting on the robot main body, a force calculation unit which calculates the external force acting on the robot support based on the robot information, and a judgment unit which judges that the mobile collaborative robot has come into contact with a human when a difference between the external force detected by the force sensor and the external force calculated by the force calculation unit is above a predetermined value α or when a difference between the amount of change in the detected external force and the amount of change in the calculated external force is above a predetermined value α1. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160039097 | CONTEXT DEPENDENT REACTIONS DERIVED FROM OBSERVED HUMAN RESPONSES - Computer-readable storage media, apparatuses, and methods associated with context dependent reactions derived from human responses are disclosed herein. An apparatus may, in some embodiments, include a communication module and a reaction agent. The reaction agent may be configured to transmit, via the communication module, a request to a remote data source. The request may include context data indicative of an operational context of the apparatus. The reaction agent may receive, in response to the request, via the communication module, reaction data for the apparatus to react to the operational context. In embodiments, the reaction data may be derived from previous observations of human response to a context similar to the operational context indicated by the context data of the request. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed herein. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160136817 | INTERACTIVE ROBOT INITIALIZATION - Initial interaction between a mobile robot and at least one user is described herein. The mobile robot captures several images of its surroundings, and identifies existence of a user in at least one of the several images. The robot then orients itself to face the user, and outputs an instruction to the user with regard to the orientation of the user with respect to the mobile robot. The mobile robot captures images of the face of the user responsive to detecting that the user has followed the instruction. Information captured by the robot is uploaded to a cloud-storage system, where information is included in a profile of the user and is shareable with others. | 05-19-2016 |
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| 20160199977 | ENGAGING IN HUMAN-BASED SOCIAL INTERACTION FOR PERFORMING TASKS USING A PERSISTENT COMPANION DEVICE | 07-14-2016 |
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| 20220134554 | CONTROLLING A ROBOT - A method for controlling a robot includes applying a setpoint force to a contact point; measuring a contact stiffness at the contact point; and slowing down the moving robot using its drives and/or braking the robot to apply the setpoint force to the contact point by the slowing down and/or slowed down robot depending on the measured contact stiffness, wherein the robot is slowed down before the setpoint force is reached. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220135253 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SERVICING EQUIPMENT - A method of kitting a robotic assembly for servicing aviation equipment including determining a current workscope associated with the equipment; determining at least one of parts and tooling associated with the current workscope; equipping the robotic assembly with at least some of the determined parts, tooling, or both; and the robotic assembly at least partially autonomously servicing the equipment using the equipped parts, tooling, or both. | 05-05-2022 |
