Methods and systems for complete coverage of a surface by an autonomous robot

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9895808
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14880610

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A robot configured to navigate a surface, the robot comprising a movement mechanism; a logical map representing data about the surface and associating locations with one or more properties observed during navigation; an initialization module configured to establish an initial pose comprising an initial location and an initial orientation; a region covering module configured to cause the robot to move so as to cover a region; an edge-following module configured to cause the robot to follow unfollowed edges; a control module configured to invoke region covering on a first region defined at least in part based at least part of the initial pose, to invoke region covering on least one additional region, to invoke edge-following, and to invoke region covering cause the mapping module to mark followed edges as followed, and cause a third region covering on regions discovered during edge-following.

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  • IROBOT CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brisson, Gabriel Francis Albany, US 5 265
Case, James Philip Los Angeles, US 20 860
Di, Bernardo Enrico Glendora, US 36 4152
Dooley, Michael Pasadena, US 34 1961
Goel, Dhiraj Pasadena, US 21 1122
Pirjanian, Paolo Glendale, US 70 5959
Stout, Michael S Rancho Palos Verdes, US 7 490

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