KR101191978B1 - Mobile robot including a control unit controllable by a user terminal and home caring system using the mobile robot - Google Patents

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KR101191978B1
KR101191978B1 KR1020100038534A KR20100038534A KR101191978B1 KR 101191978 B1 KR101191978 B1 KR 101191978B1 KR 1020100038534 A KR1020100038534 A KR 1020100038534A KR 20100038534 A KR20100038534 A KR 20100038534A KR 101191978 B1 KR101191978 B1 KR 101191978B1
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A mobile robot controllable by a user terminal is provided. The mobile robot includes a mobile robot driver for moving the mobile robot according to a drive control signal; And a control unit which transmits a telephony signal including a video signal encoded to the user terminal, and generates the drive control signal in accordance with a control signal included in the telephony signal from the user terminal. Also provided is a home care system comprising at least one PIR sensor unit and a mobile robot in communication with the unit. In the home care system, the image transmission and the controller of the mobile robot, when the motion detection signal is generated by the at least one PIR sensor unit, the telephony signal including the video signal captured by the camera and encoded by the video encoder is a user terminal Control the imager, video encoder, first communication signal processor, and communication connector to be transmitted to the network. Therefore, the user of the user terminal can control the mobile robot based on the image information provided by the mobile robot, without having to construct a spatial database of a place where the mobile robot is located in a separate database. Accurately control the mobile robot. Since the mobile robot communicates with the PIR sensor unit external to the mobile robot, the mobile robot can be used for home care without being restricted by the location of the mobile robot.

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Mobile robot including a control unit controllable by a user terminal and home caring system using the mobile robot}

The present invention relates to a mobile robot, and more particularly, to a mobile robot having a control unit controllable by a user terminal and a home care system using the same.

A mobile robot is a robot that can perform specific tasks while driving by itself, and refers to a cleaning robot and a surveillance robot. Among these mobile robots, a cleaning robot has recently formed a new market, and its size is growing.

There has been a need for a mobile robot system that can be remotely controlled so that even when the user is out of the house, the robot can be controlled by cleaning the robot at home. In particular, as mobile robots used for home use, such as cleaning robots, are competitively released, a need for a technology capable of lowering the manufacturing cost of a mobile robot system capable of remote control is increasing.

Korean Registered Utility Model Publication No. 20-0414637 [R1] discloses a "remote control device for a cleaning robot" that enables a remote control of a cleaning robot outside the home. The remote control device R1 of the cleaning robot receives the DTMF signal generated by the button operation of the user terminal and controls the cleaning robot according to the received DTMF signal.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-0645848 (Registration date November 07, 2006) [R2] also discloses a "mobile robot system and mobile robot remote control method" that controls the mobile robot using the DTMF signal of the telephone line. According to this publication [R2], work to be performed by the mobile robot, for example, to clean the whole house and to clean only a specific room, is assigned to the mobile robot through the DTMF signal, and the mobile robot performs the specified work.

However, since the cleaning robot of the above-described prior art R1 does not provide image information to the user terminal, it is difficult to control the cleaning robot when the user does not keep the cleaning robot within the visible range. Since the mobile robot of the prior art R2 can perform only a selected task among registered tasks, there is a problem in that the use of the mobile robot is restricted.

Therefore, the above-described robots of the related arts have no choice but to control without information about the real space that lies in the robot. As a result, the robotic technologies disclosed in the prior arts have a problem that they are not suitable for application in an environment requiring real space information such as home care ring. Here, Home Caring is a mobile robot equipped with a control unit with various monitoring functions installed in the place where the target is living, and when and where the status of the target is based on wired / wireless Internet telephone network. It refers to the FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) service that checks the status of a protected object and makes a call through a mobile phone / WIFI phone / VoIP phone / PC.

R1: Korean Utility Model Registration Publication No. 20-0414637 (Registration date April 17, 2006) R2: Korean Patent Publication No. 10-0645848 (Registration date Nov. 7, 2006)

The present invention is to solve the above problems, to provide a mobile robot that can be controlled by the user terminal.

The present invention also provides a home care system utilizing a mobile robot as a control unit controllable by a user terminal.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a mobile robot controllable by a user terminal, the mobile robot comprising: a mobile robot driver for moving the mobile robot according to a driving control signal; And a control unit for transmitting a telephone communication signal including a video signal captured and encoded to the user terminal, and generating the driving control signal in accordance with a control signal included in the telephone communication signal from the user terminal.

According to another embodiment, the control unit comprises: a PIR sensor; Camera; A video encoder for encoding the video signal generated by the camera to produce an encoded video signal; A communication connector for receiving a telephony signal including a control signal from the user terminal and transmitting a telephony signal including an encoded video signal to the user terminal; A first communication signal for transmitting a driving control signal to the mobile robot driver, separating a control signal from a telephone communication signal received through the communication connector from the user terminal, and generating a telephone communication signal including an encoded video signal; Processor; And when the motion detection signal is generated by the PIR sensor, the telephony signal including the video signal captured by the camera and encoded by the video encoder is transmitted to the user terminal. 1 controls the communication signal processor and the communication connector, and when a control signal is received from the communication signal processor, generates a drive control signal for controlling the mobile robot driver to move the mobile robot according to the received control signal. With a controller.

According to yet another embodiment, the control unit comprises: a microphone; And an audio processor configured to generate an encoded audio signal by encoding the audio signal generated by the microphone, wherein the first communication signal processor generates a telephony signal including the encoded audio signal. A telephony signal comprising the encoded audio signal is transmitted to the user terminal.

According to another embodiment, the control unit further comprises a speaker, wherein the audio processor receives the audio signal separated from the telephone communication signal by the first communication signal processor, and processes the received audio signal to sound A signal is generated, and the speaker converts a sound signal generated by the audio processor into sound.

According to yet another embodiment, the control unit comprises: a movable module; And a pan / tilt controller for horizontally moving and moving the movable module, wherein the movable module includes the photographing device, an illuminator, and a microphone, wherein the controller according to a control signal from a first communication signal processor. The pan / tilt controller is controlled to move the movable module horizontally and vertically.

According to another embodiment, the first communication signal processor generates a communication signal including a drive control signal, the mobile robot driver receives a communication signal from the first communication signal processor, from the received communication signal A second communication signal processor separating the drive control signal; And a driver for moving the mobile robot according to the drive control signal.

According to yet another embodiment, a home care system is provided, which includes at least one PIR sensor unit; And a mobile robot in communication with the at least one PIR sensor unit as the mobile robot of any one of claims 1 to 6, which is controllable by a user terminal, wherein the image transmission and controller of the mobile robot are at least one. The motion detection signal is generated by the PIR sensor unit of the camera, the telephony signal captured by the camera and including the video signal encoded by the video encoder is transmitted to the user terminal. Controls a communication signal processor, and the communication connector.

According to the present invention, since the mobile robot provides the captured image information to the user terminal, the user of the user terminal can control the mobile robot based on the image information provided by the mobile robot. Therefore, it is possible to accurately control the mobile robot without the need to build a spatial database of the location of the mobile robot in a separate database.

In addition, the home care system utilizing the mobile robot of the present invention transmits a motion detection signal to the mobile robot when motion of a person or the like is detected at locations outside the detectable area by the PIR sensor mounted on the mobile robot. Since the PIR sensor unit is provided, there is an advantage that the mobile robot can be used for home care without being restricted by the location of the mobile robot.

1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a home care system utilizing a mobile robot that can be controlled by a user terminal.
2 is a block diagram showing a conceptual configuration of a mobile robot according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a view for explaining the case of controlling the mobile robot of Figure 2 using a 3G phone, smart phone, WIFI phone, or SoIP phone.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a case where the mobile robot of FIG. 2 is controlled using a web browser of a PC.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a home care system in which a mobile robot controllable by a user terminal may be used. The home care system shown in FIG. 1 includes a mobile robot 2 located in a house 1, an in-house internet connection device 5, a network 6, a user terminal 7, and at least one PIR sensor unit 8. ). The indoor internet connection device 5 is a wired or wireless indoor internet connection device, such as a telephone modem. The network 6 may be a wired or wireless telephone network or the Internet supporting video communication. Preferably, the network 6 may be the Internet using voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is an Internet phone that uses a packet network for data communication. It is a communication service technology that allows voice calls to be converted into Internet protocol data packets to enable calls over general telephone networks. Such VoIP is a transport technology for the delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet switched networks. Common terms used as synonyms for VoIP include IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VOBB), broadband telephony, and broadband phone. Internet telephony refers to communication services via the Internet, such as voice, facsimile, and / or voice-messaging applications, rather than a public switched telephone network (PSTN).

The user terminals 7 may be a video phone such as a 3G phone, a 4G phone, a smartphone, a WIFI phone, or a SoIP phone or a computer such as a desktop or laptop capable of video calling. A videophone is a phone with a video screen and refers to a device capable of full duplex (bidirectional) video and audio transmission for real time communication between people. At least one PIR sensor unit 8 comprises a passive infrared (PIR) sensor and a communication device (not shown) for communicating with the mobile robot 2.

2 is a block diagram showing a conceptual configuration of a mobile robot according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the mobile robot 2 includes a control unit 3 and a mobile robot driver 4. The control unit 3 transmits a telephony signal including a video signal to the user terminal 7 and generates the drive control signal in accordance with the control signal from the user terminal 7. The mobile robot driver 4 moves the mobile robot 2 according to the drive control signal of the control unit 3. The mobile robot 2 may be provided with, for example, a rechargeable battery (not shown) for powering the mobile robot.

2 shows a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The control unit 3 has a movable module 10 and a non-movable module 30. The movable module 10 includes an illuminator 12 such as a header light, an imager 14, and a microphone 16. The non-operating module 20 includes a speaker 22, a PIR sensor 24, a pan / tilt controller 26, a video encoder 28, an audio processor 30, a controller 32, a memory 34, a communication signal processor 36, and a telephone communication device 38 are provided. The movable module 10 may be moved in left and right directions and up and down directions by the pan / tilt controller 26 of the non-movable module 20. The control unit 3 of FIG. 2 may be configured such that the controller 32 detects movement using the video signal captured by the camera 14 and encoded by the video encoder 28. The video signal obtained by the camera 14 instead of the encoded video signal is sent directly to the controller 32, which is acquired by the camera 14 using an application previously stored in the memory 34. A motion detection operation may be performed on the video signal. The motion detection operation on the video signal or encoded video signal may be performed based on the comparison between picture frames (or fields). Since motion detection in this manner is well known to those skilled in the art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In the non-moving module 20, the pan / tilt controller 26 may move the movable module 10 in left and right directions and up and down directions according to a drive control signal of the controller 32. The video encoder 28 encodes the video signal generated by the imager 14 to generate an encoded video signal, and transmits the encoded video signal to the communication signal processor 36. The video encoder 28 may encode the video signal using MPEG, H.263, or H.264. The audio processor 30 processes the sound signal from the microphone 16 of the movable module 10 to generate an encoded audio signal. The audio processor 30 transmits the encoded audio signal to the communication signal processor 36. The audio processor 30 also receives an encoded audio signal from the communication signal processor 36 and decodes the encoded audio signal to generate a sound signal. The sound signal may be converted into sound through the speaker 22. The audio processor 30 may encode and decode an audio signal using G711, G723, and G729 of ITU-T.

The first communication signal processor 36 receives a telephone communication signal from the communication connector 38 and separates the control signal and the encoded audio signal from the received telephone communication signal. The control signal is transmitted to the controller 32 and the encoded audio signal is transmitted to the audio processor 30. The first communication signal processor 36 also receives an encoded video signal from the video encoder 28 and receives an encoded audio signal from the audio processor 30. The first communication signal processor 36 generates a telephony signal comprising an encoded video signal and / or an encoded audio signal, and transmits the telephone call signal to the communication connector 38. In addition, the first communication signal processor 36 receives a driving control signal from the controller 32 and transmits the driving control signal to the mobile robot driver 4.

The communication connector 38 receives a telephony signal including a control signal and / or an encoded audio signal from the user terminal 7 and the telephony communication in which the communication signal processor 36 can process the received telephony signal. Convert to a signal. The communication connector 38 also converts a telephony signal comprising an encoded video signal and / or an encoded audio signal into a telephony signal which can be transmitted to the user terminal 7. Such communication connector 38 may include an Internet protocol such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), or Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP); Alternatively, the VoIP Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) protocol may be used. For the VoIP DTMF protocol, SIP Info, In Band, or RFC2833 may be used. The communication connector 38 includes a modem (not shown) for connecting to the Internet or a telecommunication network. The modem may be a wireless modem for WiFi and WiMax, a mobile modem for mobile phones, a modem for landline phones, and the like. The communication connector 38 may be provided with an antenna (not shown) for wireless communication.

When the controller 32 generates a motion detection signal by the PIR sensor 24, the telephony signal including the video signal captured by the camera 14 and encoded by the video encoder 28 is connected to the user terminal 7. Control the imager 14, the video encoder 28, the first communication signal processor 36, and the communication connector 38 so that the control signal is received from the first communication signal processor 36. Generates a drive control signal for controlling the mobile robot driver to move the mobile robot according to the control signal. The controller 32 can also control whether the illuminator 12, the microphone 16 and the speaker 22 are turned on or off and whether the imager 14 is photographed. Control of on / off and photographing by the controller 32 may be performed by manipulation of data stored in the memory 34 or buttons (not shown) installed in the mobile robot, or control from the user terminal 7. have.

In the mobile robot of FIG. 2, the mobile robot driver 4 may use a mobile robot such as a cleaning robot that is conventionally used. In this case, the existing mobile robot will be modified to mount the control unit 3 of FIG. 2 to the existing mobile robot. In addition, the first communication signal processor 36 may be modified to generate a communication signal including a control signal. At this time, the second communication signal processor 42 of the mobile robot driver 4 receives a communication signal from the first communication signal processor 36 and separates the driving control signal from the received communication signal. The controller 44 of the mobile robot driver 4 determines whether the drive control signal separated by the second communication signal processor 42 is used for drive control, and if so, the controller 44 of the mobile robot driver 4 determines the second communication signal processor 42. The mobile robot 2 is moved according to the separated drive control signal.

As the mobile robot drive unit 4, a remote controllable toy such as a remote control vehicle can be used. In this case, the memory 34 may store characteristic information necessary for controlling the remote controllable toy, for example, the rotation speed of the driver 46, and the like. Alternatively, a separately manufactured mobile robot driver may be used to mount the control unit 3.

The mobile robot 2 of FIG. 2 may be provided with a privacy button 51 and an emergency call button 53 at a suitable position, preferably at a suitable position on the control unit 3. The privacy button 51 is used to forcibly turn on / off the operation of the camera 14. The forced on / off of the operation of the camera 14 is preferably given only to a specific user terminal among the plurality of user terminals 7 registered in the mobile robot 2. In this way, when the photographing operation of the camera 14 is forcibly turned off by the operation of the privacy button 51, the controller 32 captures the picture of the camera 14 for a request from the user terminal except for the specific user terminal. You may not resume the operation. Therefore, the privacy of the person in the imageable range of the mobile robot 2 can be protected. Alternatively, when the shooting operation of the camera 14 is forcibly turned off by the operation of the privacy button 51, the mobile robot can turn on the shooting operation of the camera 14 only by operating the privacy button 51 again. (3) can also be comprised. Regarding the emergency call button 53, when the emergency call button 53 is pressed, the control unit 3 is configured so that the controller 32 can make a call to a user terminal registered in the memory 34. Can be.

1 and 2, the operation of the mobile robot 2 shown in FIG. 2 will be described.

First, when at least one PIR sensor unit 8 or PIR sensor 24 of the mobile robot 2 detects a movement of an object such as a person and generates a motion detection signal, the controller 32 that receives the motion detection signal Controls the first communication signal processor 36 and the communication connector 38 to transmit a communication request signal to the registered user terminal 7 stored in the memory 34. When the communication acceptance signal is received from the user terminal 7, the controller 32 turns on the operation of the camera 14. The camera 14 photographs the scene in front of the camera, and the illuminator 12 and / or the microphone 16 may be turned on as necessary. The video encoder 28 encodes the video signal obtained by the camera 14 and transmits the encoded video signal to the communication signal processor 36. The communication signal processor 36 generates a telephone communication signal including the encoded video signal, and transmits the generated telephone communication signal to the communication connector 38. The communication connector 38 converts the telephone communication signal received from the communication signal processor 36 into a signal suitable for the connected communication link and transmits it to the user terminal 7. Therefore, the user of the user terminal 7 can control the operation of the mobile robot 2 based on the image displayed on the display of the user terminal 7.

If the image information transmitted by the mobile robot 2 contains an object such as a person whose movement is detected by the PIR sensor 24, the user can easily control the operation of the mobile robot 2 through the user terminal 7. can do. On the other hand, when the user of the user terminal 7 does not know the spatial information of the place where the mobile robot 2 is located, or the PIR sensor unit 8 away from the mobile robot 2 detects the movement of the object. When the motion detection signal is generated, the user of the user terminal 7 may control the mobile robot 2 based on the voice information provided through the microphone 16 by turning on the microphone 16. In this case, the telephony signal including the "microphone on" setting from the user terminal 7 is converted into a control signal including the "microphone on" setting via the telephone communicator 38 and the communication signal processor 36 to control the controller. Is transmitted to 32, and the controller 32 turns on the microphone 16 in accordance with the control signal. Control of the illuminator 12 and the speaker 22 can also be done similarly to the microphone 16.

DTMF can be used for generation in the control signal by the user terminal 7. If the user terminal 7 is a mobile or landline telephone, the buttons or combination of buttons on the keypad of the telephone can be used for command input for the generation of a control signal. In addition, when the user terminal 7 is a computer, input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse can be used for command input. The screen of the display may display a graphical user input interface to facilitate entry of a command.

When the telephone communication signal containing the drive control signal for pan / tilt control or the movement of the mobile robot is transmitted by the user terminal 7, the controller 32 of the mobile robot 2 transmits the drive control signal to the pan / tilt control. It is determined whether or not for the movement control of the mobile robot, and generates a drive control signal according to the result. The controller 32 transmits a drive control signal for pan / tilt control to the pan / tilt controller 26, and transmits a drive control signal for movement control of the mobile robot to the mobile robot driver 4.

3 is a view for explaining the case of controlling the mobile robot of Figure 2 using a 3G phone, smart phone, WIFI phone, or SoIP phone. 3, the mobile robot 2 and the user terminal 7 communicates using the RTP protocol, the mobile robot drive unit 4 is a mobile robot such as a conventional cleaning robot and the control unit 3 of the mobile robot 2 And RTP protocol, and the network 6 is an example of a VoIP network. In FIG. 3, the Invite signal is a communication request signal transmitted by the control unit 3 to the user terminal 7, and the OK signal immediately after the Invite signal is accepted for communication transmitted from the user terminal 7 to the control unit 3. It is a signal. 3, an RTP (voice signal) and an RTP (video signal) are transmitted between the user terminal 7 and the control unit 3 of the mobile robot 2, which signals comprise an encoded video signal. Corresponds to a telephony signal comprising a signal and an encoded audio signal. The control unit 3 may be provided with a separate display (not shown) for the RTP (video signal) transmitted from the user terminal 7 to the control unit 3 of the mobile robot 2. In this case, video encoder 28 may be replaced with a video codec, communication signal processor 36 transmits the encoded video signal to the video codec, and the video codec decodes the encoded video signal to display the video signal on the display. And the display can reproduce the video signal as an image. When the mobile robot driver 4 is a mobile robot such as an existing cleaning robot, when an event generated by the mobile robot, for example, an operation termination command by the user, occurs, the controller 44 of the mobile robot driver 4 By control, an RTP (event) signal is generated from the second communication signal processor 42 and the RTP (event) signal is transmitted to the user terminal 7 through the control unit 3. The user terminal 7 transmits the BYE signal to the image transmission and control unit 3 in response to the received RTP (event) signal, and the image transmission and control unit 3 is transmitted by the user terminal 7 in response to the BYE signal. The OK signal informing that the control is completed is transmitted to the user terminal 7. The transmissions of the BYE signal and then the OK signal may be sent when control by the user terminal 7 is completed.

In the description of FIG. 2, the signals actually transmitted between the mobile robot 2 and the user terminal 7 of FIG. 2 are fully described. Thus, those skilled in the art will readily understand how the transmission of the respective signals of the apparatus of FIG. 2 is applied to the signal transmission of FIG. 3 although FIG. 3 has been described in relation to RTP.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a case where the mobile robot 2 of FIG. 2 is controlled using a web browser (not shown) of a personal computer (PC) that is a user terminal 7. Referring to FIG. 4, the user terminal 7 communicates with the control unit 3 via the network 6, which is the internet. The personal computer 7 and the control unit 3 are connected to each other by a SYN signal and a SYN_ACK signal. Using the SYN signal and the SYN_ACK signal, the signal processing of the personal computer 7 and the control unit 3 can be synchronized. Next, the personal computer 7 and the control unit 3 perform an authentication operation to confirm whether the personal computer 7 is a registered terminal stored in the memory 34 of the control unit 3. When the authentication is successfully performed, the personal computer 7 controlled by the user transmits a control signal to the mobile robot drive unit 4 via the control unit 3. When the control is completed, the personal computer 7 transmits a SYN signal to the control unit 3, which in turn sends a SYN_ACK signal to the personal computer 7. As a result, the control of the mobile robot 2 by the personal computer 7 is completed.

The information actually transmitted between the personal computer 7 and the control unit 3 has been fully described with reference to FIG. 2. Therefore, in the description of FIG. 4, the signals actually transmitted between the mobile robot 3 and the user terminal 7 of FIG. 2 are fully described. Thus, those skilled in the art will readily understand how the transmission of the respective signals of the apparatus of FIG. 2 applies to the signal transmission of FIG. 4 although FIG. 4 has been described in relation to TCP.

In the embodiment of FIG. 2 a variant of the embodiment of FIG. 2 is possible in which the control unit 3 does not have an illuminator 12, a microphone 16, a speaker 22. In addition, in the embodiment of FIG. 2 a variant of the embodiment of FIG. 2 is also possible in which the control unit 3 does not have a speaker 22. As such, the configuration shown in FIG. 2 is not intended to limit the invention, and therefore, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the configuration of FIG. 2 may be modified in various modifications.

1: HOME 2: Mobile Robot
3: control unit 4: mobile robot drive unit
5: home Internet connection device 6: network
7: user terminal 8: PIR sensor unit
10: operation module 20: non-operation module

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In the mobile robot that can be controlled by the user terminal,
A mobile robot driver for moving the mobile robot according to a driving control signal; And
When the motion detection signal is generated by the PIR sensor, a telephony signal including a video signal photographed and encoded by a camera is transmitted to the user terminal, and the drive control according to a control signal included in the telephony signal from the user terminal. A control unit for generating a signal,
The control unit
A communication connector for receiving a telephony signal including a control signal from the user terminal and transmitting a telephony signal including an encoded video signal to the user terminal; And
A first communication for transmitting the driving control signal to the mobile robot driver, separating a control signal from a telephone communication signal received through the communication connector from the user terminal, and generating a telephone communication signal including an encoded video signal; Includes a signal processor,
The mobile robot drive unit
And a second communication signal processor that receives a telephone communication signal from the first communication signal processor and separates the driving control signal from the received telephone communication signal. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit,
A video encoder for encoding the video signal generated by the camera to produce an encoded video signal; And
When the motion detection signal is generated by the PIR sensor, the camera, the video encoder and the first camera are configured to transmit a telephony signal captured by the camera and including a video signal encoded by the video encoder to the user terminal. The mobile robot further comprises a communication signal processor, and a controller for controlling the communication connector. The method of claim 2, wherein the control unit,
microphone; And
An audio processor configured to generate an encoded audio signal by encoding the audio signal generated by the microphone,
The first communication signal processor generates a telephony signal comprising the encoded audio signal,
And the communication connector transmits a telephone communication signal including the encoded audio signal to the user terminal. The method of claim 3, wherein the control unit further comprises a speaker,
The audio processor receives an audio signal separated from a telephone communication signal by a first communication signal processor, processes the received audio signal to generate a sound signal,
The speaker is a mobile robot, characterized in that for converting the sound signal generated by the audio processing unit to the sound. The method of claim 3, wherein the control unit,
Movable module; And
It further comprises a pan / tilt controller for moving the movable module left and right, and move,
The movable module,
The camera, an illuminator, a microphone,
And the controller controls the pan / tilt controller to move the movable module side to side and to move the movable module in accordance with a control signal from a first communication signal processor. The method of claim 1, wherein the first communication signal processor is configured to generate a communication signal including a driving control signal.
The mobile robot drive unit,
The mobile robot further comprises a driver for moving the mobile robot according to the drive control signal. At least one PIR sensor unit; And
A home care system comprising a mobile robot controllable by a user terminal and in communication with the at least one PIR sensor unit,
The mobile robot
A mobile robot driver for moving the mobile robot according to a driving control signal; And
When the motion detection signal is generated by the at least one PIR sensor unit, a telephony signal including a video signal captured and encoded by the camera is transmitted to the user terminal, and a control signal included in the telephony signal from the user terminal. A control unit for generating the drive control signal according to
The control unit includes a communication connector for receiving a telephone communication signal including a control signal from the user terminal, and transmits a telephone communication signal including an encoded video signal to the user terminal; And
A first communication for transmitting the driving control signal to the mobile robot driver, separating a control signal from a telephone communication signal received through the communication connector from the user terminal, and generating a telephone communication signal including an encoded video signal; Includes a signal processor,
The mobile robot driver includes a second communication signal processor for receiving a telephone communication signal from the first communication signal processor and separating the driving control signal from the received telephone communication signal,
The control unit comprises a video encoder for encoding the video signal generated by the camera to produce an encoded video signal; And when the motion detection signal is generated by the PIR sensor unit, the telephony signal including the video signal captured by the camera and encoded by the video encoder is transmitted to the user terminal. And a first communication signal processor and a controller for controlling the communication connector.
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