Segway, Inc.

Irobot Corporation

Patrick Alan Hussey

John David Heinzmann

Jon Stevens

Joseph A Hoell, Jr

Alexander H Muller

Raymond Debruin

Anthony Foale

Daniel N Ozick

Chikyung Won

Tony L Campbell

Christopher John Morse

Selma Svendsen

Rogelio Manfred Neumann

Deepak Ramesh Kapoor

Christopher M Casey

Scott Thomas Burnett

Robert Paul Roy

Benjamin C Shaffer

Maryellen Abreu

Jon M Stevens

Joseph Hoell

An autonomous coverage robot includes a body, a drive system disposed on the body, and a cleaning assembly disposed on the body and configured to engage a floor surface while the robot is maneuvered across the floor surface. The cleaning assembly includes a driven cleaning roller, a cleaning bin disposed on the body for receiving debris agitated by the cleaning roller, and an air mover. The cleaning bin includes a cleaning bin body having a cleaning bin entrance disposed adjacent to the cleaning roller and a roller scraper disposed on the cleaning bin body for engaging the cleaning roller. The cleaning bin body has a holding portion in pneumatic communication with the cleaning bin entrance, and the air mover is operable to move air into the cleaning bin entrance.

Autonomous coverage robots

Method for controlling a vehicle that includes a support, at least one wheel, a platform coupled to the at least one wheel, a coupling structure having a support portion coupled to the support and a platform portion coupled to the platform that allows the support portion to move or slide fore and aft with respect to the platform portion, an actuator coupled to the coupling structure to control the position of the support portion relative to the platform portion, a drive coupled to the at least one wheel to deliver power to the at least one wheel to propel the vehicle and maintain the platform level, and a controller coupled to the drive to control the drive and coupled to the actuator to control the actuator.

Apparatus and methods for control of a vehicle

A method for optimizing message transmission and decoding comprises: reading data from a memory of an originating device, the data comprising information regarding the originating device; encoding the data by converting the data to a subset of words having a ranked recognition accuracy higher than the remainder of words; transmitting the encoded data from the originating device to a receiving system audibly as words via a telephone connection; utilizing a voice recognition software to recognize the words; decoding the words back to the data; and taking a predetermined action based on the data.

Robot and server with optimized message decoding

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Hollis, NH, United States of America

Patrick Alan Hussey