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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2011
Jean-christophe Baillie, Paris, FR;
Jean-Christophe Baillie, Paris, FR;
Aldebaran Robotics, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A control device for a mobile robot, the robot comprising a camera and a communication unit, comprises a display unit displaying an image corresponding to the image taken by the camera and transmitted by the communication unit, and a user interface, wherein the user interface is configured to allow a user to control a position of a pointer on the image displayed by the display unit, and the user interface comprises a selection unit allowing the user to select a position of the pointer on the image displayed by the display unit, the control device further comprising a computation unit and a communication system, the computation unit being configured to compute displacement commands and send them through the communication system to the robot, said displacement commands being computed to make the robot move to a physical position corresponding to the pointer's position selected by the user on the image.