Cooperating mobile robots
| Patent Number: | 6,687,571 |
| Issued: | 2/3/2004 |
| Official Filing: | View the Complete Patent |
| Abstract: | A miniature mobile robot provides a relatively inexpensive mobile robot. A mobile robot for searching an area provides a way for multiple mobile robots in cooperating teams. A robotic system with a team of mobile robots communicating information among each other provides a way to locate a source in cooperation. A mobile robot with a sensor, a communication system, and a processor, provides a way to execute a strategy for searching an area. |
| Filed: | 4/24/2001 |
| Application Number: | 9/841,807 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |