A CENTRAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE ROBOT, WITH LAYERED INFORMATION STRUCTURE ACCORDING TO RECOGNITION AND REASONING LEVEL

摘要

A central information processing system and a method for a service robot having layered indoor information according to a recognition and reasoning level are provided to integrally manage information about an indoor space and objects therein in order to enable plural of service robots to share the indoor information by providing necessary indoor information to the service robots and receiving modified information from the service robots. A central information processing system and a method for a service robot includes a database(20), a broker unit, a spatial information manager(33), an object information manager(34), and a space & object reasoning unit(35). The broker unit includes at least one of interfaces(31) corresponding to each of the service robots. Each of the interfaces analyzes an information request of a corresponding robot, transforms a format of the requested information to a predetermined robot-readable format, and transmits the transformed information to the robot. The interface analyzes an information request from a corresponding service robot and transforms a format of the received information request to a predetermined format that can be processed in the central information processing system. On the contrary, the interface receives a result of the information request from the central information processing system and transforms a format of the result to a predetermined format analyzable by the service robot. The spatial information manager and the object information manager hierarchically compose information about an indoor space and objects therein according to a recognition/reasoning level and stores the layered information.