| CPC G05D 1/0214 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0234 (2013.01); G05D 1/0238 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G05D 1/0276 (2013.01); G05D 1/0291 (2013.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A mobile robot, comprising:
a power system;
a sensor system, comprising a plurality of sensors comprising front and rear ultrasound sensors, front and rear cameras, and a pan-tilt-zoom camera;
an actuator system powered by the power system, comprising wheels configured to move the mobile robot from one location to another location;
a speaker;
a microphone that comprises a stereo microphone;
a surveillance tower configured to telescope toward a housing of the mobile robot or expand upwards, wherein the pan-tilt-zoom camera integrated on surveillance tower, and wherein the pan-tilt-zoom camera comprises a thermal pan-tilt-zoom camera that is integrated on at an upper portion of the surveillance tower;
a near-field communication (NFC) transceiver configured to receive identification information from an NFC tag after a negotiation with the NFC tag; and
a computing system, configured to:
communicate with other mobile robots via a communications network;
control movement of the mobile robot, via the wheels, according to self-governing route instructions and route instructions communicated from at least one of the other mobile robots;
generate the self-governing route instructions via machine learning, deep learning, or a combination thereof;
generate the self-governing route instructions according to surroundings information sensed from at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors, wherein the surroundings information comprises an identification of a target object;
change a current route of the mobile robot to move towards the target object to sense and analyze the target object with greater accuracy according to at least the self-governing route instructions, and when the target object is a detected person, the computing system is further configured to change a current route of the mobile robot or one of the other mobile robots to move towards the detected person to perform facial recognition or another form of identification of the detected person with greater accuracy;
select the mobile robot or one of the other mobile robots for the change in the current route to move towards the detected person, according to a determination by the computing system as to which mobile robot is closest to the detected person geographically;
identify a direction of a sound source sensed by the microphone and control the pan-tilt-zoom camera to face in the direction of the sound source;
output, via the speaker, an audible request for identification information, after a detection of a person sensed by at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors; and
provide a security procedure based on stored instructions in the computing system, when acceptable identification information is not received by the NFC transceiver within a certain period of time after the audible request for identification information, wherein the security procedure comprises the computing system activating an alarm and directing the mobile robot to follow the detected person.
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