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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
May. 11, 2011
Aaron Powers, Wayland, MA (US);
Justin Kearns, Somerville, MA (US);
Robert Todd Pack, Nashua, NH (US);
Orjeta Taka, Peabody, MA (US);
Eben Rauhut, Watertown, MA (US);
Marshall Vale, Arlington, MA (US);
Aaron Powers, Wayland, MA (US);
Justin Kearns, Somerville, MA (US);
Robert Todd Pack, Nashua, NH (US);
Orjeta Taka, Peabody, MA (US);
Eben Rauhut, Watertown, MA (US);
Marshall Vale, Arlington, MA (US);
iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
An operator control unit has a user interface that allows a user to identify a mode of display and interaction that narrows the user's options for his next interaction with the user interface. The user interface utilizes portals to transition between environments such as indoors to outdoors, outdoors to indoors, different rooms of a building, and different floors of a building, the portals representing one or more of stairways and doors, and being used in remote vehicle path planning as waypoints that may require execution of predetermined behaviors.