US 12,229,598 B2
Task execution system for autonomous robot
Aiko Ohtsuka, Tokyo (JP); Koichi Kudo, Kanagawa (JP); Masuyoshi Yachida, Tokyo (JP); and Hanako Bando, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Aiko Ohtsuka, Tokyo (JP); Koichi Kudo, Kanagawa (JP); Masuyoshi Yachida, Tokyo (JP); and Hanako Bando, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/488,309.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-165652 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020; and application No. 2021-094711 (JP), filed on Jun. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100571 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2015.01)
CPC G06F 9/5027 (2013.01) [H04B 1/38 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An execution system, comprising:
at least one robot placed in a predetermined site, each robot including:
a drive motor for driving the robot; and
an imaging device;
a server configured to store, in a memory, information on a plurality of tasks to be executed by the at least one robot, the information on the plurality of tasks including information on an estimated amount of battery consumption of the at least one robot in executing each of the plurality of tasks; and
a communication terminal configured to
receive designation of the plurality of tasks to be executed by the at least one robot, and
cause a display to display an execution schedule on a screen, the execution schedule being for executing, by the at least one robot, the plurality of tasks and being based on the information on the estimated amount of battery consumption of the at least one robot to reduce the total battery consumption of the at least one robot, wherein
the server is further configured to cause the at least one robot to execute the plurality of tasks in accordance with the execution schedule by autonomously moving within the predetermined site, and
the plurality of tasks are inspection tasks for imaging target objects, by the imaging device, in the predetermined site.