Robot system

US7066291B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ABB AB · SE

Inventors

• Gösta Martins · Arlöv, SE
• Mats Hallgren · Arlöv, SE
• Giovanni C. Pettinaro · Lugano, CH
• Jörgen Bergmark · Västerås, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 27, 2006
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T90/16
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A mobile robot system for performing a plurality of separate operations, and including at least one autonomous wheeled mobile robot having at least one wheel-driving motor, an on-board computer, a system for navigation, orientation, and maneuvering in an environment with moving obstacles, a sensor system, a wireless communication system operative to receive and send signals, and a plurality of dockable operation modules and operative to be selectively coupled to the autonomous mobile robot to form an operation unit, wherein the autonomous wheeled mobile robot autonomously docks to the dockable operation modules.