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Robots, systems, and methods for hazard evaluation and visualization

Curtis W. Nielsen (Inventor), David J. Bruemmer (Inventor), Miles C. Walton (Inventor), Robert S. Hartley (Inventor), David I. Gertman (Inventor), Robert A. Kinoshita (Inventor), Jonathan Whetten (Inventor)

Research output: Patent

Abstract

A robot includes a hazard sensor, a locomotor, and a system controller. The robot senses a hazard intensity at a location of the robot, moves to a new location in response to the hazard intensity, and autonomously repeats the sensing and moving to determine multiple hazard levels at multiple locations. The robot may also include a communicator to communicate the multiple hazard levels to a remote controller. The remote controller includes a communicator for sending user commands to the robot and receiving the hazard levels from the robot. A graphical user interface displays an environment map of the environment proximate the robot and a scale for indicating a hazard intensity. A hazard indicator corresponds to a robot position in the environment map and graphically indicates the hazard intensity at the robot position relative to the scale.
Original languageAmerican English
Patent number8,355,818
StatePublished - Jan 2013

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