Color- or grayscale-sensing, magnetic, mobile, marking robot

US10086516B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• President and Fellows of Harvard College · US

Inventors

• Zivthan A. Dubrovsky · Lexington, US
• Raphael G. Cherney · Cambridge, US
• Michael Mogenson · Cambridge, US
• Justin Keith Werfel · Cambridge, US
• Kathleen O'Donnell · Cambridge, US
• Radhika Nagpal · Cambridge, US
• Nils Napp · Cambridge, US
• Hani M. Sallum · Somerville, US
• Julian U. da Silva Gillig · Cambridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2018
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S901/01
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method for interactive marking by a mobile robot on a vertical surface, a mobile robot that includes a sensor and an actuated marker is displaced across a vertical surface. Features on, in or behind the vertical surface are detected with the sensor. Displacement of the mobile robot and actuation of the actuated marker is controlled in response to the detection of these features.