Patent ID: 9546875
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G01C,G05D,H04W

Claim:
1. A beacon device automatic identity recognition method used among a robot and a plurality of beacon devices, the robot being disposed with a tag device and the automatic identity recognition method comprising: a) entering a discovery mode and sending a blinking message outwardly by the tag device; b) receiving an initial message replied from one of the plurality of beacon devices after the beacon device received the blinking message, wherein the initial message comprises an anchor identification (ID) of the corresponding beacon device; c) recording the anchor ID in a configuration list when the configuration list not including the anchor ID; d) replying a control command to the beacon device that sends the initial message to control the beacon device stopping sending the initial message; e) executing the step b) to step d) repeatedly within a first time period; and f) exiting the discovery mode after the first time period being passed or the number of the anchor IDs recorded in the configuration list reaching a threshold number.