Patent ID: 11878434
Assignee: BEUING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 8:
9. A robot apparatus comprising:
a housing; and
a visual-tactile perception device incorporated in said housing,
wherein the visual-tactile perception device includes:
a visual perception module, a tactile perception module, a control module, and a signal transmission module, wherein
the visual perception module is connected to the signal transmission module, and the visual perception module is configured to obtain image information of a surrounding environment of the apparatus;
the tactile perception module is connected to the signal transmission module, and the tactile perception module is configured to obtain tactile information of the surrounding environment of the apparatus;
the signal transmission module is connected to the control module, and the signal transmission module is configured to transmit the image information and the tactile information to the control module; and
the control module is configured to generate a control instruction based on the image information and the tactile information, and transmit the control instruction,
wherein the visual perception module comprises a first camera and a second camera, both the first camera and the second camera are connected to the signal transmission module, the first camera is configured to obtain image information of the left front environment of the apparatus, and the second camera is configured to obtain image information of the right front environment of the apparatus,
wherein the tactile perception module comprises a first whisker sensor, a second whisker sensor, and a tactile information processing unit, both the first whisker sensor and the second whisker sensor are connected to the tactile information processing unit, the first whisker sensor is configured to obtain tactile information of the left environment of the apparatus, the second whisker sensor is configured to obtain tactile information of the right environment of the apparatus, the tactile information processing unit is connected to the signal transmission module, and the tactile information processing unit is configured to perform analog-to-digital conversion on the tactile information of the left environment of the apparatus and the tactile information of the right environment of the apparatus, and transmit converted tactile information of the left environment of the apparatus and converted tactile information of the right environment of the apparatus to the signal transmission module, and
wherein the signal transmission module comprises a first wireless image transmission module, a second wireless image transmission module, and a Wi-Fi module, the first wireless image transmission module is connected to the first camera and the control module, the first wireless image transmission module is configured to transmit the image information of the left front environment of the apparatus to the control module, the second wireless image transmission module is connected to the second camera and the control module, and the second wireless image transmission module is configured to transmit the image information of the right front environment of the apparatus to the control module, the Wi-Fi module is connected to the tactile information processing unit and the control module, and the Wi-Fi module is configured to transmit the converted tactile information of the left environment of the apparatus and the converted tactile information of the right environment of the apparatus to the control module.