399 patents
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Utility
Methods, systems, and devices for mapping, controlling, and displaying device status
18 Jul 23
A method of operating a user terminal includes receiving occupancy data for an operating environment responsive to navigation of the operating environment by a mobile robot, and displaying a visual representation of the operating environment based on the occupancy data.
Christopher V. Jones, Colin Angle
Filed: 18 Jan 21
Utility
Autonomous monitoring robot systems
30 May 23
An autonomous mobile robot includes a chassis, a drive supporting the chassis above a floor surface in a home and configured to move the chassis across the floor surface, a variable height member being coupled to the chassis and being vertically extendible, a camera supported by the variable height member, and a controller.
Michael J. Dooley, Nikolai Romanov, Orjeta Taka, Justin H. Kearns
Filed: 9 Sep 19
Utility
Systems and methods for dock placement for an autonomous mobile robot
30 May 23
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for validating location of a docking station for docking a mobile robot.
Laura V. Herlant, Brent Hild, Ryan Schneider, Benjamin Glazer
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Robot localization and mapping accommodating non-unique landmarks
30 May 23
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.
Vazgen Karapetyan, Artem Gritsenko, Zacharias Psarakis, Guanlai Li, Daniele Tamino
Filed: 15 Sep 20
Utility
Trajectory-based Localization and Mapping
25 May 23
An autonomous robot is maneuvered around a feature in an environment along a first trajectory.
Daniele Tamino, Artem Gritsenko, Andrea M. Okerholm Huttlin, Arman Karimian, Benjamin Pheil, Yao Chen, Renaud Moser, Jose Luis Franco Monsalve
Filed: 22 Nov 21
Utility
Learned escape behaviors of a mobile robot
23 May 23
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for controlling a mobile cleaning robot to escape from a stuck state using a learned robot escape behavior model.
Laura V. Herlant, Aravindh Kuppusamy, Deepak Sharma, Kshitij Bichave, Shao Zhou, Cheuk Wah Wong
Filed: 15 Sep 20
Utility
Systems and Methods for Monitoring Autonomous Robotic Lawnmowers
18 May 23
A user device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computer, can provide a user with information pertaining to operations of an autonomous robotic lawnmower to assist the user with monitoring the operations of the robotic lawnmower and with setting up the autonomous robotic lawnmower.
Qunxi Huang, Wesley Johnson, Mark Edward Piana, Erik Steltz, Benjamin Axelrod, Ira Renfrew
Filed: 22 Mar 21
Utility
Mobile robot providing environmental mapping for household environmental control
16 May 23
A mobile robot includes a processor connected to a memory and a wireless network circuit, for executing routines stored in the memory and commands generated by the routines and received via the wireless network circuit.
Colin Angle, David Snelling, Melissa O'Dea, Timothy S. Farlow, Samuel Duffley, Jeffrey W. Mammen, Michael J. Halloran
Filed: 21 Sep 18
Utility
Seasonal Cleaning Zones for Mobile Cleaning Robot
11 May 23
A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot in an environment can include detecting, such as using an optical stream from the mobile cleaning robot, a seasonal object located in the environment.
Ottillia Shirhan Ni, Ryan Schneider, Hyun Woo Paik, Eric Beowulf Martinson, Danielle O'Connor Dean
Filed: 9 Nov 21
Utility
Evacuation station system
9 May 23
A cleaning system includes a robotic cleaner and an evacuation station.
Tucker Kuhe, Jennifer Smith, Sam Duffley
Filed: 7 Dec 20
Utility
Debris bins and mobile cleaning robots including same
9 May 23
A mobile cleaning robot includes a removable filter unit configured to receive a supply airflow generated by a blower and to filter debris from the supply airflow, a filter seat, a filter access opening, a filter access door, and a filter presence system.
Eric Burbank, Christopher Robin Grace, Oliver Majer Lewis, Stephen Albert Hickey, Jude Royston Jonas
Filed: 14 Sep 20
Utility
Cleaning bin for cleaning robot
9 May 23
A cleaning bin mountable to an autonomous cleaning robot operable to receive debris from a floor surface includes a debris compartment to receive a first portion of debris separated from the airflow and a particulate compartment to receive a second portion of debris separated from the airflow.
Erik Amaral, Timothy R. Ohm, Nicholas Moretto
Filed: 25 Oct 19
Utility
Scheduling and control system for autonomous robots
2 May 23
An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller.
Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White, Brent Hild
Filed: 30 Nov 20
Utility
Magnetic field localization and navigation
25 Apr 23
A mobile robot includes a body movable over a surface within an environment, a calibration coil carried on the body and configured to produce a calibration magnetic field, a sensor circuit carried on the body and responsive to the calibration magnetic field, and a controller carried on the body and in communication with the sensor circuit.
Alexander D. Kleiner, Nikolai Romanov, Frederic D. Hook
Filed: 12 Aug 19
Utility
Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot
18 Apr 23
Devices, systems, and methods for social behavior of a telepresence robot are disclosed herein.
Marco Pinter, Fuji Lai, Daniel Steven Sanchez, James Ballantyne, David Bjorn Roe, Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Orjeta Taka, Cheuk Wah Wong
Filed: 21 Sep 20
Design
Latch for a filtering device
4 Apr 23
Ryan Mercier
Filed: 7 Jul 21
Utility
Mobile cleaning robot teaming and persistent mapping
28 Mar 23
A multi-robot system includes a first a mobile cleaning robot that has a local storage device to store a persistent map of an environment, at least one sensor to sense the environment, and a control module.
Philip Fong, Clifton Eric Smith, Mario Munich, Stephen Ernest O'Dea
Filed: 5 Jan 18
Utility
Navigation of autonomous mobile robots
21 Mar 23
An autonomous cleaning robot includes a controller configured to execute instructions to perform one or more operations.
Artem Gritsenko, Erik Schembor, James R. Salvati, John Wang, Jonathan J. Dorich, Steven Kordell, Tadvana S. Canakapalli, Zacharias Psarakis
Filed: 23 Sep 22
Utility
Graphical User Interfaces Including Touchpad Driving Interfaces for Telemedicine Devices
16 Mar 23
The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices.
Charles S. Jordan, Andy Young, Mei Sheng Ng, Yair Lurie, Fuji Lai, Timothy C. Wright, Cody Herzog, Blair Whitney, Bill Rizzi, James Ballantyne, Yulun Wang, Cheuk Wah Wong, Justin H. Kearns, Orjeta Taka, Ramchandra Karandikar
Filed: 22 Nov 22
Utility
Restricting Movement of a Mobile Robot
2 Mar 23
A robot includes a body that is movable relative to a surface one or more measurement devices within the body to output information based on an orientation of the body at an initial location on the surface, and a controller within the body to determine an orientation of the body based on the information and to restrict movement of the body to an area by preventing movement of the body beyond a barrier that is based on the orientation of the body and the initial location.
Marcus Williams, Ping-Hong Lu, Joseph M. Johnson, Fabrizio Santini
Filed: 3 Oct 22