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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2012
Cheuk Wah Wong, Bedford, MA (US);
Eben Rauhut, Watertown, MA (US);
Brian C. Benson, Winchendon, MA (US);
Peter J. Lydon, Peabody, MA (US);
Michael T. Rosenstein, Westford, MA (US);
Michael Halloran, Waltham, MA (US);
Steven V. Shamlian, Watertown, MA (US);
Chikyung Won, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Mark Chiappetta, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Justin H. Kearns, Somerville, MA (US);
Orjeta Taka, Bedford, MA (US);
Robert Todd Pack, Hollis, NH (US);
Timothy S. Farlow, Billerica, MA (US);
Jasper Fourways Vicenti, Medford, MA (US);
Cheuk Wah Wong, Bedford, MA (US);
Eben Rauhut, Watertown, MA (US);
Brian C. Benson, Winchendon, MA (US);
Peter J. Lydon, Peabody, MA (US);
Michael T. Rosenstein, Westford, MA (US);
Michael Halloran, Waltham, MA (US);
Steven V. Shamlian, Watertown, MA (US);
Chikyung Won, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Mark Chiappetta, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Justin H. Kearns, Somerville, MA (US);
Orjeta Taka, Bedford, MA (US);
Robert Todd Pack, Hollis, NH (US);
Timothy S. Farlow, Billerica, MA (US);
Jasper Fourways Vicenti, Medford, MA (US);
iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
A mobile robot including a robot body, a drive system supporting the robot body, and a controller in communication with the drive system. The robot also includes an actuator moving a portion of the robot body through a volume of space adjacent the mobile robot and a sensor pod in communication with the controller. The sensor pod includes a collar rotatably supported and having a curved wall formed at least partially as a surface of revolution about a vertical axis. The sensor pod also includes a volumetric point cloud sensor housed by the collar and observing the volume of space adjacent the robot from within the collar along an observation axis extending through the curved wall. A collar actuator rotates the collar and the volumetric point cloud sensor together about the collar axis.