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Title:
AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING ROBOT CLEANER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3841220
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous traveling robot cleaner capable of finely cleaning areas along walls of rooms and obstacles.
SOLUTION: The robot cleaner 1 performs a standard cleaning action for cleaning while traveling according to a predetermined traveling rule, performs an unclean area cleaning action for cleaning an unclean area which has not be cleaned according to the standard cleaning movement, and thereafter performs a periphery cleaning action for cleaning the periphery of the obstacles. For example, first the robot cleaner 1 cleans from an O point to a P8 point along routes Z1 to Z4 according to the standard cleaning action. Then, the robot cleaner cleans from a P9 point to a P10 point along a route Z5, from a P11 point to a P 12 point along a route Z6, and from a P13 point to a P14 point along a route Z7 according to the unclean area cleaning action. Thereafter, the robot cleaner cleans the periphery of a wall 50 from the point P14 along a route Z8, and the periphery of a obstacle 51 from a P15 point along a route 9 according to the periphery cleaning action.


Inventors:
Futao Tani
Application Number:
JP2004022410A
Publication Date:
November 01, 2006
Filing Date:
January 30, 2004
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
A47L11/24; A47L9/00; A47L9/28; G01C21/00; G01C21/12; G01C22/00; G05D1/02; (IPC1-7): A47L11/24; G05D1/02
Domestic Patent References:
JP9204224A
JP9185410A
JP2004234308A
JP2004326692A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasuo Itaya