MOVING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

Title:

MOVING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2021/006553

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

A moving robot includes: a sensor to acquire terrain information; a memory to store node data for at least one node; and a controller, and the controller determines whether at least one open movement direction exists among a plurality of movement directions, based on sensing data and the node data, generates a new node in the node data when at least one open movement direction exists, determines any one of the open movement directions as a traveling direction for the robot, determines whether at least one of the nodes needs to be updated exists, based on the node data when the open movement direction does not exist, controls the moving robot to move to one of the nodes that need to be updated, and generates of a map including the at least one node, based on the node data, when the node that needs to be updated does not exist.

Inventors:

CHOI JIEUN (KR)
SHIM JUNGMIN (KR)

Application Number:

PCT/KR2020/008715

Publication Date:

January 14, 2021

Filing Date:

July 03, 2020

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Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC (KR)

International Classes:

B25J9/16; B25J9/00; B25J11/00; B25J13/08; B25J19/02; G05D1/02

Foreign References:

KR101553654B1	2015-10-01
KR101179075B1	2012-09-03
KR20130112507A	2013-10-14
KR101242252B1	2013-03-11
US20180306587A1	2018-10-25

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