Cleaning path guidance method combined with dirt detection mechanism

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8871030
APP PUB NO 20120247510A1
SERIAL NO

13184700

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A cleaning path guidance method combined with a dirt detection mechanism is performed in an automatic cleaning device to generate a cleaning path, so as to guide the automatic cleaning device to clean an area to be cleaned, in which plural grids are defined in the area. The method includes: moving the automatic cleaning device in the area to clear dirt away, and continuously detecting a flow of the dirt cleared away to obtain a dirt level of a current gird; if the dirt level of the current gird exceeds a threshold, marking the grid as a dirty grid; performing an algorithm and finding a shortest path passing through all dirty grids as a cleaning path according to the marked dirty grids; and moving the automatic cleaning device to pass through each dirty grid according to the clean path, so as to clean each dirty gird sequentially.

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  • IROBOT CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chen, Shui-Shih New Taipei, TW 7 56
Teng, You-Wei New Taipei, TW 17 161

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