US 12,337,463 B2
Robot swarm
Peter Mankowski, Waterloo (CA); Willem Jager, Cambridge (CA); and Tim Lambert, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by ACCELERATED SYSTEMS INC., Waterloo (CA)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/110,762.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/311,970, filed on Feb. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0264364 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B25J 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 13/003 (2013.01) [B25J 13/006 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A robot swarm comprising:
two or more robots, each robot comprising:
three or more microphones;
a speaker; and
a communication terminal for one or more of sending and receiving an electromagnetic signal to or from a communication partner to affect electromagnetic communication with the communication partner;
upon detection of a disruption to the electromagnetic communication, a given robot of the two or more robots to switch from electromagnetic communication to acoustic communication by exchanging an acoustic signal between one of the speaker and at least one of the microphones of the given robot and one of a corresponding microphone and a corresponding speaker of a corresponding communication partner.