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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2018
Irobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Rogelio Manfred Neumann, Somerville, MA (US);
Landon Unninayar, Waltham, MA (US);
Fangzheng Guo, Arlington, MA (US);
Qingtai Zhai, West Roxbury, MA (US);
John P. O'Brien, Newton, MA (US);
Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Somerville, MA (US);
Travis Gschrey, Billerica, MA (US);
Milan Modh, Waltham, MA (US);
iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
A mobile robot includes a recessed well in a top surface of the mobile robot, at least one capacitive sensor underlying the recessed well and having a first region and a second region, one or more mobility sensors, and a controller coupled to the at least one capacitive sensor and the one or more mobility sensors. The controller is configured to determine an operating status of the mobile robot responsive to output signals from the one or more mobility sensors, and selectively disregard an input at a first portion of the recessed well corresponding to the first region of the at least one capacitive sensor based on the operating status of the mobile robot.