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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2020
Accenture Global Solutions Limited, Dublin 4, IE;
Hugo Borne-Pons, Antibes, FR;
Accenture Global Solutions Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
Embodiments provide systems, method, and computer-readable storage media for performing robotic tasks in a distributed and coordinated manner. A fleet of robots may use a sequence of messages to appoint supervisors for a set of tasks, where the supervisor robots are responsible for ensuring that their supervised tasks are completed by other robots of the fleet. The supervisors may solicit requests from other robots to perform available tasks and select a robot to perform an available task. Once a robot is appointed, the supervisor and the worker may use messaging sequences to monitor the status of the task and participating robots (e.g., the supervisor and the worker). The monitoring may enable the supervisor to detect a failed worker and enable other robots to detect a failed supervisor. When failed robots are detected, the robot(s) detecting the failure may initiate operations to take over the role(s) of the failed robots to ensure operation of the fleet of robots continues in a smooth manner and the tasks are completed efficiently.