公开(公告)号：US20150120057A1

公开(公告)日：2015-04-30

申请号：US14586341

申请日：2014-12-30

Applicant: iRobot Corporation

Inventor： Cheuk Wah Wong ,  Eben Rauhut ,  Brian C. Benson, JR. ,  Peter J. Lydon ,  Michael T. Rosenstein ,  Michael Halloran ,  Steven V. Shamlian ,  Chikyung Won ,  Mark Chiappetta ,  Justin H. Kearns ,  Orjeta Taka ,  Robert Todd Pack ,  Timothy S. Farlow ,  Jasper Fourways Vicenti

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G05D1/02

CPC classification number: B25J9/1697 ,  B25J9/1694 ,  G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/024 ,  G05D1/0242 ,  G05D2201/0206 ,  G05D2201/0211 ,  Y10S901/01 ,  Y10S901/09 ,  Y10S901/46 ,  Y10S901/47

Abstract: A mobile robot including a robot body, a drive system supporting the robot body, and a controller in communication with the drive system. The robot also includes an actuator moving a portion of the robot body through a volume of space adjacent the mobile robot and a sensor pod in communication with the controller. The sensor pod includes a collar rotatably supported and having a curved wall formed at least partially as a surface of revolution about a vertical axis. The sensor pod also includes a volumetric point cloud sensor housed by the collar and observing the volume of space adjacent the robot from within the collar along an observation axis extending through the curved wall. A collar actuator rotates the collar and the volumetric point cloud sensor together about the collar axis.

Abstract translation: 一种包括机器人主体，支撑机器人主体的驱动系统和与驱动系统通信的控制器的移动机器人。 机器人还包括致动器，其将机器人主体的一部分移动通过与移动机器人相邻的空间的容积以及与控制器通信的传感器盒。 传感器盒包括可旋转地支撑并具有至少部分地作为围绕垂直轴线的旋转表面形成的弯曲壁的轴环。 传感器盒还包括容纳点云传感器，其由轴环容纳并且沿着延伸穿过弯曲壁的观察轴线从轴环内观察邻近机器人的空间的体积。 套环执行器将套环和体积点云传感器围绕套环轴线旋转。