KR102293332B1 - Pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence, a robot body including an upper housing and a lower housing that form the outer shape of the robot and are coupled to each other, and the surrounding situation recognition that generates information about the surrounding situation of the robot through a plurality of sensors A power supply module comprising a module, a display module for reproducing an image or image related to the robot's emotions, a driving module for operating the robot, a battery for supplying power to the robot, and a charger for charging the battery, and and a control module for learning the surrounding context information and controlling the robot's operations with respect to object recognition and emotional expression.

Description

Pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence {PET ROBOT EQUIPPED WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE}

The present invention relates to robot technology for companion animals, and more particularly, to a pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence that can safely take care of a companion animal even when there is no owner and can remotely check it in real time. will be.

As the industry is highly developed and life is enriched, the number of households raising companion animals for the purpose of emotional cultivation has increased, and interest in companion animals has increased. As the number of breeding households for companion animals increases, problems due to negligence in management and control in breeding are also increasing. Accordingly, there is a demand for the development of a robot that can support companion animal management in order to reduce the side effects of lack of management.

Korean Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-2008-0094117 (October 23, 2008) relates to a companion animal management system and a method therefor, and receives identification information of a terminal and identification information of the tag from a terminal that recognizes a tag attached to a companion animal. and searching for companion animal management information corresponding to the identification information of the tag in the database, determining the range of information to be provided among the searched companion animal management information based on the identification information of the tag, and then sending the companion animal management information within the determined information range to the terminal It discloses a technology to provide.

Korean Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-2014-0146806 (2014.12.29) relates to a companion animal management device and a management method using the same. And various schedules can be output by voice, so you can smoothly perform the schedule without forgetting it, take care of your companion animal from outside, and be sure to let people around you know if your pet is lost. It discloses a technology that can display

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2008-0094117 (October 23, 2008) Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2014-0146806 (2014.12.29)

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence that can safely take care of companion animals even when going out and there is no owner and can check in real time through a remote control.

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence that can express the emotion of the pet robot by using the learned artificial intelligence and control the behavior according to the emotion.

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence that can recognize an object by utilizing the learned artificial intelligence and express emotions, thoughts, and actions based on intimacy with the recognized object and surrounding situations. do.

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence that can effectively support remote control of an external system based on artificial intelligence learned by having a remote controller for remote control therein.

Among the embodiments, a pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence forms a robot body and includes an upper housing and a lower housing coupled to each other, and is disposed inside the robot body and uses a plurality of sensors to detect the surrounding situation of the robot. A surrounding situation recognition module for generating information, a display module disposed outside the upper housing to reproduce an image or an image related to the robot's emotions, a driving module disposed on the bottom surface of the lower housing to operate the robot, the It is disposed inside the lower housing, the power supply module including a battery (battery) for supplying power to the robot and a charger for charging the battery and disposed inside the robot body, the object by learning the surrounding context information and a control module for controlling the operation of the robot with respect to recognition and emotional expression.

The pet robot is disposed inside the upper housing, and further comprises a feeding module exposed to the outside of the robot body to provide feed, wherein the feeding module includes a feed box for storing the feed, and the feed to the robot body. It is disposed at the lower end of the feed box and the feed box exposed to the outside may include a distributor for distributing the feed of a specific capacity to the feed box.

The driving module may include a plurality of wheels for driving the robot body and a driving motor for rotating at least one of the plurality of wheels.

The control module determines any one of a plurality of emotion categories according to intimacy with the recognized object, and any one of a plurality of emotion steps included in the emotion category according to an emotion index calculated based on the surrounding context information can be determined as the final emotion of the robot to control the operation of the robot.

The control module may determine any one of a plurality of behavior patterns based on intimacy with the recognized object and the surrounding situation information, and control the operation of the robot according to the corresponding behavior pattern.

When the corresponding action pattern is a dance, the control module determines a dance area including the position of the robot and generates a dance motion defined by position coordinates and a dance motion within the dance area to perform the dance. It is possible to control the operation of the robot according to the operation.

The pet robot may further include a remote control module disposed outside the upper housing to remotely control an operation related to at least one external system.

When receiving the remote control request for the at least one external system, the control module may control the movement of the robot to the remote control area learned about the external system.

The disclosed technology may have the following effects. However, this does not mean that a specific embodiment should include all of the following effects or only the following effects, so the scope of the disclosed technology should not be construed as being limited thereby.

The pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence according to an embodiment of the present invention can express the feelings of the pet robot by using the learned artificial intelligence and control the behavior according to the emotion.

A pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence according to an embodiment of the present invention may recognize an object by utilizing the learned artificial intelligence and express emotions, thoughts and actions based on intimacy with the recognized object and surrounding circumstances.

The artificial intelligence-equipped pet robot according to an embodiment of the present invention can effectively support remote control of an external system based on the learned artificial intelligence by having a remote controller for remote control therein.

1 is a view for explaining a companion animal management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view for explaining the basic system configuration of the pet robot in FIG. 1 .
3 is a block diagram illustrating a physical or functional configuration of a pet robot according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a process of controlling the motion of a pet based on artificial intelligence performed by the pet robot of FIG. 1 .
5 is a view showing a pet robot according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Since the description of the present invention is merely an embodiment for structural or functional description, the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the embodiment described in the text. That is, since the embodiment may have various changes and may have various forms, it should be understood that the scope of the present invention includes equivalents capable of realizing the technical idea. In addition, since the object or effect presented in the present invention does not mean that a specific embodiment should include all of them or only such effects, it should not be understood that the scope of the present invention is limited thereby.

On the other hand, the meaning of the terms described in the present application should be understood as follows.

Terms such as “first” and “second” are for distinguishing one component from another, and the scope of rights should not be limited by these terms. For example, a first component may be termed a second component, and similarly, a second component may also be termed a first component.

When a component is referred to as being “connected” to another component, it may be directly connected to the other component, but it should be understood that other components may exist in between. On the other hand, when it is mentioned that a certain element is "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that the other element does not exist in the middle. Meanwhile, other expressions describing the relationship between elements, that is, “between” and “immediately between” or “neighboring to” and “directly adjacent to”, etc., should be interpreted similarly.

The singular expression is to be understood to include the plural expression unless the context clearly dictates otherwise, and terms such as "comprises" or "have" refer to the embodied feature, number, step, action, component, part or these It is intended to indicate that a combination exists, and it should be understood that it does not preclude the possibility of the existence or addition of one or more other features or numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

Identifiers (eg, a, b, c, etc.) in each step are used for convenience of description, and the identification code does not describe the order of each step, and each step clearly indicates a specific order in context. Unless otherwise specified, it may occur in a different order from the specified order. That is, each step may occur in the same order as specified, may be performed substantially simultaneously, or may be performed in the reverse order.

The present invention can be embodied as computer-readable codes on a computer-readable recording medium, and the computer-readable recording medium includes all types of recording devices in which data readable by a computer system is stored. . Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage device, and the like. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed in a network-connected computer system, and the computer-readable code may be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Terms defined in general used in the dictionary should be interpreted as being consistent with the meaning in the context of the related art, and cannot be interpreted as having an ideal or excessively formal meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application.

1 is a view for explaining a companion animal management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , the companion animal management system 100 may include a user terminal 110 , a pet robot 130 , and a companion animal 150 .

The user terminal 110 corresponds to a computing device that can remotely check or control the operation of the pet robot 130 and may be implemented as a smartphone, a notebook computer, or a computer, but is not limited thereto, and various devices such as a tablet PC can also be implemented. The user terminal 110 may be connected to the pet robot 130 through a network, and a plurality of user terminals 110 may be simultaneously connected to the pet robot 130 .

The pet robot 130 may correspond to a robot equipped with artificial intelligence that can support the management of the companion animal 150 . The pet robot 130 may be equipped with artificial intelligence to learn information about the surrounding situation collected from a plurality of sensors. The pet robot 130 may perform processing into learning data that can be used for learning based on the collected information. For example, the pet robot 130 may perform data analysis or migration through preprocessing for data processing.

In an embodiment, the pet robot 130 may generate a plurality of independent learning models as needed for motion control. The pet robot 130 may recognize surrounding objects based on the learning model, determine intimacy with the recognized object, and may be implemented to express emotions or actions according to intimacy. Here, the emotions of the pet robot 130 may include joy, sadness, pain, depression, happiness, sleepiness, hunger, and the like, and a plurality of similar emotions may be classified into an emotion category of a higher concept.

The companion animal 150 may correspond to an animal that lives with humans, and may be recognized as a living being rather than a human toy by respecting various benefits provided by the animal to humans. The companion animal 150 may include a dog and a cat as representative examples, but does not necessarily correspond to this, and may include various animals that can live together with humans.

FIG. 2 is a view for explaining the basic system configuration of the pet robot in FIG. 1 .

Referring to FIG. 2 , the pet robot 130 may include a processor 210 , a memory 230 , a user input/output unit 250 , and a network input/output unit 270 .

The processor 210 may execute each procedure for controlling various operations of the pet robot 130 that supports the management of the companion animal 150, and manages the memory 230 that is read or written throughout the process. Also, a synchronization time between the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory in the memory 230 may be scheduled. The processor 210 may control the overall operation of the pet robot 130, and may be electrically connected to the memory 230, the user input/output unit 250, and the network input/output unit 270 to control the data flow between them. have. The processor 210 may be implemented as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) of the pet robot 130 .

The memory 230 is implemented as a non-volatile memory, such as a solid state disk (SSD) or a hard disk drive (HDD), and may include an auxiliary storage device used to store overall data required for the pet robot 130, and RAM It may include a main memory implemented as a volatile memory such as (Random Access Memory).

The user input/output unit 250 may include an environment for receiving a user input and an environment for outputting specific information to the user. For example, the user input/output unit 250 may include an input device including an adapter such as a touch pad, a touch screen, an on-screen keyboard, or a pointing device, and an output device including an adapter such as a monitor or a touch screen. In one embodiment, the user input/output unit 250 may correspond to a computing device connected through a remote connection, and in such a case, the pet robot 130 may be performed as a server.

The network input/output unit 270 includes an environment for connecting with an external device or system through a network, for example, a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), and a VAN (Wide Area Network) (VAN). It may include an adapter for communication such as Value Added Network).

3 is a block diagram illustrating a physical or functional configuration of a pet robot according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3 , the pet robot 130 may be implemented including a robot body 310 , and the robot body 310 is formed by combining an upper housing 311 and a lower housing 313 having a physical shape to each other. The overall appearance of the pet robot 130 may be formed. The pet robot 130 may include a display module 320 , a feeding module 330 , and a remote control module 340 inside the upper housing 311 , and a driving module 370 inside the lower housing 313 . ) and a power supply module 380 .

In addition, the pet robot 130 may include the surrounding situation recognition module 350 and the control module 360 inside the robot body 310 constituting the outer appearance. Since the robot body 310 is formed by combining the upper housing 311 and the lower housing 313 with each other, the interior of the robot body 310 includes both the interior of the upper housing 311 and the interior of the lower housing 313 . It may correspond to the space where

The display module 320 may be disposed outside the upper housing 311 to reproduce an image or an image related to the emotion of the pet robot 130 . The display module 320 may include a display panel for visually expressing the emotions of the pet robot 130 , and may include a touch function capable of receiving an external input. The pet robot 130 may express its emotions according to the surrounding situation by artificial intelligence, and may utilize a display as one of the means for expressing emotions.

In an embodiment, the display module 320 may provide a video call function by playing a user image received from the user terminal 110 . More specifically, the display module 320 may show the user's image to the companion animal 150 in real time, and the pet robot 130 captures the companion animal 150 through a camera installed therein to thereby capture the user terminal 110 . ) to provide a video call between the user and the companion animal 150 .

The feeding module 330 may be disposed inside the upper housing 311 and exposed to the outside of the robot body 310 to provide feed. The feeding module 330 may expose the feed stored inside the pet robot 130 to the outside as necessary to provide it to the companion animal 150 .

In one embodiment, the feeding module 330 is disposed at the lower end of the feed box 331 for storing feed, the feed box 335 for exposing the feed to the outside of the robot body 310, and the feed box 331 to have a specific capacity. It may include a distributor 333 for distributing the feed to the feed can (335). The feed container 331 is a storage container capable of storing feed, and may be implemented with a container material suitable for long-term storage of feed, and may be formed in a vertical direction to the ground for smooth supply of feed.

The feeding container 335 may be implemented in a form that can effectively provide a predetermined amount of feed to the companion animal 150 by exposing it to the outside of the robot body 310 . For example, it may be exposed to the outside of the robot body 310 through reciprocating movement by being implemented in a bowl shape and installed on a rail that can move in a horizontal direction. The distributor 333 may be implemented in a form capable of distributing the feed stored in the feed box 331 to the feed box 335 by a certain amount, and may be disposed on the side portion instead of the lower end portion of the feed box 331 if necessary. . For example, the distributor 333 may be implemented in the form of a propeller, and may distribute a certain amount of feed existing in the space formed between the propeller wings through the vertical rotation of the propeller to the feeding tank 335 .

In one embodiment, the feeding module 330 constitutes a specific area of the upper housing 311 and may include a feed container cover detachable from the upper housing 311 . The feed container cover may be combined with the feed container 331 to prevent the feed stored in the feed container 331 from being exposed to the outside. The user can easily replenish the feed into the feed box 331 by separating the feed box cover from the upper housing 311 .

The remote control module 340 may be disposed outside the upper housing 311 to remotely control an operation of at least one external system. The remote control module 340 may include a remote controller, and the remote controller may be implemented by including an infrared LED emitting infrared.

Here, the external system may correspond to a device controllable through a remote controller, and may include, for example, a TV, an air conditioner, an audio system, and the like. The user may communicate with the pet robot 130 from the outside through the user terminal 110 , and an external system located in the vicinity of the pet robot 130 through the remote control module 340 of the pet robot 130 . can be remotely controlled.

The surrounding context recognition module 350 may be disposed inside the robot body 310 to generate surrounding context information of the pet robot 130 through a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors installed inside the pet robot 130 may include an illuminance sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a camera sensor, a distance sensor, a fall prevention sensor, and a microphone. The surrounding context recognition module 350 may generate surrounding context information using sensor data collected from a plurality of sensors. The surrounding context information may include information about a specific time point, the sensed values obtained from each sensor may be expressed in an arranged form according to a specific order, and may include secondary information derived through the sensing value. .

The control module 360 may be disposed inside the robot body 310 and may control the operation of the robot regarding object recognition and emotion expression by learning surrounding context information. The control module 360 may generate and utilize various learning models for the operation of the pet robot 130 , and may generate learning data as a pre-processing process for learning. As a learned result, the learning model is stored in the internal memory and can be utilized to control the operation of the pet robot 130 .

For example, the control module 360 may recognize an object existing in the vicinity of the pet robot 130 based on the surrounding situation information through the learning model, and may determine intimacy with the recognized object, and It is possible to determine the emotion of the pet robot 130 at the time based on the surrounding situation information. Also, the control module 360 may determine an operation according to the emotion of the pet robot 130 through the learning model.

In an embodiment, the control module 360 determines any one of a plurality of emotion categories according to intimacy with the recognized object, and determines a plurality of emotion categories included in the emotion category according to an emotion index calculated based on surrounding context information. Any one of the emotion steps may be determined as the final emotion of the pet robot 130 to control the operation of the pet robot 130 . The control module 360 may recognize an object existing in the vicinity of the pet robot 130 based on the surrounding situation information, and may determine, for example, a person, a companion animal, or various things as the object.

Also, the control module 360 may determine intimacy with the recognized object. For example, the basic intimacy can be determined depending on whether the object is a person, a companion animal, or an object, and the intimacy with the object can be specifically determined by adding or subtracting the intimacy according to the number or frequency of past recognition based on the basic intimacy. . In another embodiment, the control module 360 may determine recognition of an object and intimacy with the object through a learning model. That is, the control module 360 may input the recognized object to the learning model and acquire the intimacy with the corresponding object as a numerical value.

The control module 360 may determine any one of a plurality of emotion categories based on intimacy with the object. A higher intimacy with an object may be expressed as an emotion close to joy, and conversely, a lower intimacy with an object may be expressed as an emotion close to sadness. In addition, the control module 360 may determine the emotional index of the pet robot 130 based on the surrounding situation information. The emotional index may correspond to a numerical value of the emotion of the pet robot 130 according to the surrounding situation information, and the control module 360 may quantify it by integrating and reflecting various situations such as surrounding temperature, humidity, illuminance, and characteristics of space. It can be determined through a learning model that derives an emotional index based on surrounding situation information. The control module 360 may first determine an emotion category based on intimacy and second determine an emotion level in the corresponding emotion category based on the emotion index.

In an embodiment, the control module 360 may express each object, emotion, and state with an independent color through the display module 320 . The control module 360 may visually express the situation of the pet robot to the outside through the display module 320 . The control module 360 may express the color according to the object recognized around the pet robot 130 in the form of RGB through the display module 320 . The control module 360 may express the color according to the emotion of the pet robot 130 in the form of RGB through the display module 320 . The control module 360 may express the color according to the state of the pet robot 130 in the form of RGB through the display module 320 .

Here, the state of the pet robot 130 is a concept distinct from the emotion of the pet robot 130 and may correspond to a thought that the pet robot 130 may have at a specific point in time. The state of the pet robot 130 may be defined using artificial intelligence generated as a result of learning about the surrounding situation information.

In one embodiment, the control module 360 determines any one of a plurality of behavior patterns based on intimacy with the recognized object and surrounding situation information to control the operation of the pet robot 130 according to the corresponding behavior pattern. can The plurality of behavior patterns may include following, running away, hiding, dancing (dance), and the like. The control module 360 may control the operation of the pet robot 130 through a learning model that provides any one of a plurality of behavior patterns as an output when intimacy and surrounding context information are input.

In an embodiment, the control module 360 may control the driving module 370 to determine a recommended distance with the corresponding object and maintain the recommended distance with the corresponding object. The control module 360 may determine a recommended distance to the object based on intimacy with the recognized object. For example, the recommended distance to a specific object may be closer as the intimacy with the corresponding object is high, and conversely, the recommended distance to the specific object may be further away as the intimacy is low.

In one embodiment, the control module 360 determines a dance area including the position of the pet robot 130 when the corresponding behavior pattern is a dance, and defines the position coordinates and the dance motion within the dance area. It is possible to control the motion of the pet robot 130 according to the dance motion by generating a dance motion. The control module 360 may designate a space for performing a dance motion based on the current position of the pet robot 130 as a dance area. In addition, the control module 360 may control the motion of the pet robot 130 according to the dance motion generated in real time rather than a predetermined pattern in order to control the dance motion of the pet robot 130 .

Here, the dance motion includes a specific position coordinate randomly selected from among a plurality of dance motions defined as movement to the corresponding position coordinates, rotation at the corresponding position coordinates, reciprocating movement to the corresponding position coordinates, etc. including any position coordinates in the dance area. It may be determined as a dance motion. The control module 360 may display various patterns of dance motions by randomly selecting position coordinates and dance motions to determine a dance motion, and controlling the motion of the pet robot 130 according to the corresponding dance motion.

In one embodiment, the control module 360 may control the movement of the pet robot 130 to the remote control area learned about the external system when receiving a remote control request for at least one external system. The remote control area may correspond to an area in which remote control for each external system can be best performed, and the control module 360 uses the learning result for the surrounding situation information to the optimal remote control area for each external system. can be decided When a remote control request is received, the control module 360 may support smooth execution of remote control by moving the pet robot 130 to a remote control area for an external system associated with the request.

The driving module 370 may be disposed on the bottom surface of the lower housing 313 to operate the pet robot 130 . The driving module 370 may be implemented including wheels in general, but is not limited thereto, and may be implemented in various forms.

In one embodiment, the driving module 370 may include a plurality of wheels 371 for driving the robot body 310 and a driving motor 373 for rotating at least one of the plurality of wheels 371 . . The driving motor 373 may control all the wheels 371 at the same time, and in some cases, rotate only some of the plurality of wheels 371 to operate the pet robot 130 .

The power supply module 380 may be disposed inside the lower housing 313 to supply power to the pet robot 130 . The power supply module 380 may supply power by wire or wirelessly.

In one embodiment, the power supply module 380 may include a battery 381 for supplying power and a charger 383 for charging the battery 381 . The power supply module 380 may be implemented by including a battery 381 and a charger 383 therein so that the pet robot 130 can operate wirelessly. In another example, the power supply module 380 may be implemented in such a way that only the battery 381 is included in the pet robot 130 , and the charger 383 is disposed outside the pet robot 130 . In this case, when the amount of charge of the battery 381 falls below a predetermined value, the pet robot 130 is automatically coupled to the charger 383 so that the battery 381 is charged.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a process of controlling the motion of a pet based on artificial intelligence performed by the pet robot in FIG. 1 .

Referring to FIG. 4 , the pet robot 130 may collect surrounding situation information through the surrounding situation recognition module 350 and perform learning through the control module 360 (step S410 ). The pet robot 130 may recognize an object existing in the vicinity of the robot based on the learning information through the control module 360 (step S430). The pet robot 130 may determine the intimacy with the object through the control module 360 to determine the emotion of the pet robot 130 according to the surrounding situation information (step S450). The pet robot 130 may control the behavior of the pet robot 130 according to an emotion through the control module 360 . For example, the pet robot 130 may express a specific color or a specific action according to an emotion (step S470).

5 is a view showing a pet robot according to an embodiment of the present invention. More specifically, FIG. 5A is a front view of the pet robot 130 , FIG. 5B is a side view of the pet robot 130 , FIG. 5C is a rear view of the pet robot 130 , and FIG. 5D is a pet robot 130 . It is a bottom view. In addition, FIG. 5E is an exemplary view for explaining various operating states of the pet robot 130 . Meanwhile, in FIG. 5 , the pet robot 130 including the feeding module 510 is described as an example, but it is not necessarily limited thereto, and the pet robot 130 is implemented in a form that does not include the feeding module 510 . can be

Referring to FIG. 5A , the pet robot 130 may include an LCD ( ) as the display module 320 . The pet robot 130 may include a feeding module 510 , and may include a remote control LED 580 as the remote control module 340 . The pet robot 130 may include a plurality of sensors as the surrounding context recognition module 350, for example, a distance sensor 520, a microphone 540, a camera 550, an infrared LED 560 and It may include an illuminance sensor 570 . The pet robot 130 may include a plurality of wheels 501 and 502 as the driving module 330 .

The driving module 370 may be implemented to include a wheel 501 that rotates by a driving motor 373 and a wheel 502 that supports the robot body 310 and rotates passively. The distance sensor 520 may be disposed at a specific position toward the front of the robot body 310 , and may be utilized to prevent a collision or fall of the pet robot 130 . The display module 320 may be implemented with the LED 530 , but is not limited thereto, and may be implemented in various ways. The microphone 540 , the camera 550 , the infrared LED 560 and the remote control LED 580 may be arranged side by side at the upper end of the LED 530 , and the illuminance sensor 570 is the robot body 310 . It may be disposed on the top.

Referring to FIG. 5B , the pet robot 130 may include speakers 590 on both side portions of the robot body 310 . The speaker 590 may be implemented in a form included in the inside of the robot body to be protected from external impact. In one embodiment, the feeding module 510 may be implemented to include a feed canister cover 511 , and the feed canister cover 511 is a specific area of the rear upper end of the upper housing 311 constituting the robot body 310 . can be formed In addition, the feed container cover 511 may be implemented in a form detachable from the upper housing 311 .

Referring to FIG. 5C , the pet robot 130 may be implemented to include a plurality of distance sensing sensors 520 , and may be disposed at a specific position on the rear surface of the robot body 310 . The speaker 590 may be implemented by being respectively disposed on both side portions of the robot body 310 . Referring to FIG. 5D , the pet robot 130 may include a driving module 370 , and the driving module 370 includes a plurality of wheels 501 and 502 and a driving motor 373 for driving the wheels. can be implemented. In one embodiment, the driving module 370 is a pair of wheels 501 rotating by the power received directly from the driving motor 373 and one wheel 502 for assisting the operation of the pet robot 130 . It can be implemented including

Referring to FIG. 5E , the pet robot 130 may be implemented to include a feeding module 510 capable of providing feed to the companion animal 150 , and the feeding module 510 may include a feeding container 513 and a feed container. 512 and a distributor 333 . In one embodiment, the feeding module 510 may further include a feed container cover 511 . In Figure (a), the feeding module 510 provides feed to the companion animal 150 by distributing the feed to the feeding trough 513 from the inside of the robot body 310 and exposing the feeding trough 513 to the outside. can do. In Figure (b), when the feed container cover 511 is removed, the feed container 512 disposed inside the robot body 310 may be exposed to the outside, and the user may supplement the feed container 512 with feed.

Although the above has been described with reference to preferred embodiments of the present invention, those skilled in the art can variously modify and change the present invention within the scope without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims below. You will understand that it can be done.

100: companion animal management system
501, 502: wheel
510: feeding module 511: feeding container cover
512: feed bin 513: feed bin
520: distance sensor 530: LCD
540: microphone 550: camera
560: infrared LED 570: light sensor
580: remote control LED 590: speaker

Claims (8)

A robot body comprising an upper housing and a lower housing that form the outer shape of the robot and are coupled to each other;
a surrounding situation recognition module disposed inside the robot body to generate surrounding situation information of the robot through a plurality of sensors;
a display module disposed outside the upper housing to reproduce an image or an image related to the emotion of the robot;
a driving module disposed on the bottom surface of the lower housing to operate the robot;
a power supply module disposed inside the lower housing and including a battery for supplying power to the robot and a charger for charging the battery;
a control module disposed inside the robot body and configured to learn the surrounding context information to control the robot's operations with respect to object recognition and emotional expression;
a remote control module disposed outside the upper housing to remotely control an operation of at least one external system; and
A feeding module disposed inside the upper housing and exposed to the outside of the robot body to provide feed while supporting the front part of the robot body; including,
The feeding module is
a feed box configured to store the feed and open and close by a feed box cover that forms an outer shape of the upper housing;
a feeding container disposed at the lower end of the feed box inside the robot body and horizontally moving to be disposed on the front side of the robot body outside the robot body, exposing the feed to the outside of the robot body; and
A distributor disposed at the lower end of the feed box to distribute a specific amount of feed to the feed box;
When the control module receives a remote control request for the at least one external system, the control module controls the movement of the robot to the remote control area learned about the external system and starts the operation of the remote control module Pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence.
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a plurality of wheels for moving the robot body; and
A pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence, characterized in that it comprises a driving motor for rotating at least one of the plurality of wheels.
According to claim 1, wherein the control module is
Determine any one of a plurality of emotion categories according to intimacy with the recognized object, and perform any one of a plurality of emotion steps included in the emotion category according to an emotion index calculated based on the surrounding situation information. A pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence, characterized in that it determines the final emotion and controls the robot's operation.
According to claim 1, wherein the control module is
Pet with artificial intelligence, characterized in that by determining any one of a plurality of behavior patterns based on the intimacy with the recognized object and the surrounding situation information, and controlling the operation of the robot according to the corresponding behavior pattern robot.
The method of claim 5, wherein the control module is
When the corresponding action pattern is a dance, a dance area including the position of the robot is determined, and a dance motion defined by position coordinates and a dance motion is generated within the dance area, and according to the dance motion, the A pet robot equipped with artificial intelligence, characterized in that it controls the movement of the robot.
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