CPC G05D 1/0287 (2013.01) [G05D 1/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/104 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A robot, comprising:
a mobility assembly, wherein the mobility assembly is configured to configured to move the robot to a position within a physical area in response to a positional control signal;
a sensor, wherein the sensor is operable to detect a target item as the robot moves within the physical area; and
a processor in communication with a memory, the memory including instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to:
generate a positional control signal to the mobility assembly based on a random walk strategy;
estimate a quantity of detected target items and a respective position of each detected target item within a field of view of the sensor of the robot using a Probability Hypothesis Density filter model; and
update a local estimate value of a quantity of detected target items and a respective position of each detected target item held by the robot in a renewal-reward process based on a local estimate value received from a second robot.
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