Electricity: motive power systems – Positional servo systems – Program- or pattern-controlled systems
Patent
1997-06-02
1999-10-05
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Electricity: motive power systems
Positional servo systems
Program- or pattern-controlled systems
318587, B25J 500
Patent
active
059630027
ABSTRACT:
A robot has a surface over which the robot moves, the surface being tiled with electrodes and having a power supply connected to the electrodes so that the electrodes form an alternating pattern of positive and negative electrodes, the robot having a plurality of contacts resting on the surface, each of the contacts being connected to oppositely biased diodes, the robot having a motor connected between leads connecting all the diodes of each bias, the contacts being positioned so that at least two of said contacts always rest on a negative and a positive electrode to power the motor.
A control signal generator connected to the electrodes may send a control signal to a control signal receiver through the power circuitry to control the motor of the moving robot. In a like manner, a data signal generator on the robot may send data signals to a data signal receiver connected to the electrodes of the surface.
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Leykin Rita
Shoop Jr. William M.
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