SELF-PROPELLED TELECONFERENCING PLATFORM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a useful mobile human interface robot.SOLUTION: A mobile robot includes: a drive system; a controller 500 in communication with the drive system; and a volumetric point cloud imaging device supported above the drive system at a height of more than about one feet (30.5 cm) above the ground and directed to be capable of obtaining a point cloud from a volume of space that includes a floor plane in a direction of movement of the mobile robot. The controller 500 receives point cloud signals from the imaging device and issues drive commands to the drive system based at least in part on the received point cloud signals.