Robots, systems, and methods for hazard evaluation and visualization
Abstract
A robot includes a hazard sensor, a locomotor, and a system controller. The robot senses a hazard intensity at a location of the robot, moves to a new location in response to the hazard intensity, and autonomously repeats the sensing and moving to determine multiple hazard levels at multiple locations. The robot may also include a communicator to communicate the multiple hazard levels to a remote controller. The remote controller includes a communicator for sending user commands to the robot and receiving the hazard levels from the robot. A graphical user interface displays an environment map of the environment proximate the robot and a scale for indicating a hazard intensity. A hazard indicator corresponds to a robot position in the environment map and graphically indicates the hazard intensity at the robot position relative to the scale.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1082739
- Patent Number(s):
- 8355818
- Application Number:
- 12/553,794
- Assignee:
- Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, ID)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G05 - CONTROLLING G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
Citation Formats
Nielsen, Curtis W., Bruemmer, David J., Walton, Miles C., Hartley, Robert S., Gertman, David I., Kinoshita, Robert A., and Whetten, Jonathan. Robots, systems, and methods for hazard evaluation and visualization. United States: N. p., 2013.
Web.
Nielsen, Curtis W., Bruemmer, David J., Walton, Miles C., Hartley, Robert S., Gertman, David I., Kinoshita, Robert A., & Whetten, Jonathan. Robots, systems, and methods for hazard evaluation and visualization. United States.
Nielsen, Curtis W., Bruemmer, David J., Walton, Miles C., Hartley, Robert S., Gertman, David I., Kinoshita, Robert A., and Whetten, Jonathan. Tue .
"Robots, systems, and methods for hazard evaluation and visualization". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1082739.
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abstractNote = {A robot includes a hazard sensor, a locomotor, and a system controller. The robot senses a hazard intensity at a location of the robot, moves to a new location in response to the hazard intensity, and autonomously repeats the sensing and moving to determine multiple hazard levels at multiple locations. The robot may also include a communicator to communicate the multiple hazard levels to a remote controller. The remote controller includes a communicator for sending user commands to the robot and receiving the hazard levels from the robot. A graphical user interface displays an environment map of the environment proximate the robot and a scale for indicating a hazard intensity. A hazard indicator corresponds to a robot position in the environment map and graphically indicates the hazard intensity at the robot position relative to the scale.},
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