Abstract
According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors ITO, Kiyoto (Tokyo, JP); MIYAMOTO, Atsushi (Tokyo, JP); MIZUNO, Hiroyuki (Tokyo, JP), filed on November 18, 2021, was made available online on February 15, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "In the coordination robotic system to allow a plurality of robots to perform a task in coordination with one another in a specific environment, many practical systems need a host machine as a centralized calculator. For example, there is a coordination robotic system based on a prior plan in a search task of searching the entire region by a plurality of robots. In the method, all the robots are previously provided with a shared map, so that the individual robots are equally assigned regions of responsibility with a prior plan. In an event where a robot suffers a breakdown or delays in action, there is a risk of not completing the task as a whole and/or an issue of significant preprocessing for the prior plan. "As another means, there is a coordination robotic system based on a shared map. In the method, position information of the respective robots is collected into the centralized calculator, and actions of the respective robots are collectively calculated from the obtained all position information. There is a need to create a shared map with a common coordinate system among all the robots, leading to integration of position information into the preprocessing and/or the shared map and an issue of increased cost such as for communications and the like.
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