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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2011
Paul Beardsley, Zurich, CH;
Javier Alonso Mora, Zurich, CH;
Andreas Breitenmoser, Zurich, CH;
Martin Rufli, Winterthur, CH;
Roland Siegwart, Schwyz, CH;
Iain Matthews, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Katsu Yamane, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Paul Beardsley, Zurich, CH;
Javier Alonso Mora, Zurich, CH;
Andreas Breitenmoser, Zurich, CH;
Martin Rufli, Winterthur, CH;
Roland Siegwart, Schwyz, CH;
Iain Matthews, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Katsu Yamane, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for controlling robot pixels to display a visual representation of an input. The input to the system could be an image of a face, and the robot pixels deploy in a physical arrangement to display a visual representation of the face, and would change their physical arrangement over time to represent changing facial expressions. The robot pixels function as a display device for a given allocation of robot pixels. Techniques are also disclosed for distributed collision avoidance among multiple non-holonomic robots to guarantee smooth and collision-free motions. The collision avoidance technique works for multiple robots by decoupling path planning and coordination.