Patent ID: 7269480
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: G06N

Abstract:
1. A mobile robot which receives a wireless signal transmitted from a tag on which identification information is stored, and communicates with a detection target provided with the tag by a predetermined motion of the mobile robot or by an utterance from the mobile robot, the mobile robot comprising: a personal identification unit which detects an existence of the tag and obtains the identification information based on the wireless signal transmitted from the tag; a position information acquisition unit which acquires distance information indicating a distance from the mobile robot to the detection target provided with the tag; a locomotion speed detection unit which detects a locomotion speed of the mobile robot; a personal information acquisition unit which acquires personal information based on the identification information obtained by the personal identification unit; a communication motion determination unit which determines contents of a communication motion for communicating with the detection target based on the personal information acquired by the personal information acquisition unit; and an operation determination unit which adjusts a start timing of each content of the communication motion based on the distance information indicating the distance from the mobile robot to the detection target provided with the tag and on the locomotion speed of the mobile robot detected by the locomotion speed detection unit.