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Patent No.:

US 10423163 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2016

Mobile robot and method of controlling same

Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Hyukdoo Choi, Seoul, KR;

Hyeongshin Jeon, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:

KED & Associates, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Tan Q Nguyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 11/00 (2006.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01); A47L 9/00 (2006.01); A47L 11/40 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0234 (2013.01); A47L 9/009 (2013.01); A47L 9/28 (2013.01); A47L 9/2826 (2013.01); A47L 9/2852 (2013.01); A47L 11/4061 (2013.01); B25J 5/00 (2013.01); B25J 5/007 (2013.01); B25J 9/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/16 (2013.01); B25J 9/1664 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 11/00 (2013.01); B25J 11/0085 (2013.01); B25J 19/02 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0225 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0203 (2013.01);
Abstract

A moving robot includes a main body, a driving unit moving the main body, a camera installed on one side of the main body and capturing an image related to a marker, a memory storing information related to a pattern of the marker, and a controller extracting information related to at least one longitudinal line segment included in an appearance of the marker from the captured image, detecting information related to a position and a posture of the main body on the basis of the extracted information related to at least one of the longitudinal line segment and the pattern, and controlling the driving unit on the basis of at least one of the detected position and posture of the main body.

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