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An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arraigned to apply a cleaning fluid onto the surface and to thereafter collect the cleaning fluid up from the surface after it has been used to clean the surface. The robot chassis carries a supply of cleaning fluid and a waste container for storing waste materials collected up from the cleaning surface.

A robot cleaner system for detecting an external recharging apparatus which is positioned in a non-detectable area by an upper camera thereof, and a docking method for docking the robot cleaner system with the external recharging apparatus. The robot cleaner system includes an external recharging apparatus with a power terminal connected to a utility power supply, a recharging apparatus recognition mark formed on the external recharging apparatus, and a robot cleaner, having a recognition mark sensor that detects the recharging apparatus recognition mark, and a rechargeable battery. The robot cleaner automatically docks to the power terminal to recharge the rechargeable battery. The recharging apparatus recognition mark is made of retroreflective material or a metal tape, and the recognition mark sensor may be a photosensor or a proximity sensor.

A robot cleaner system and a method for the robot cleaner to return to an external recharging apparatus. The robot cleaner system has an external recharging apparatus including a charging stand having a charging terminal, and a plurality of transmission parts for sending signals having different codes and strengths; a robot cleaner including a rechargeable battery, a connection terminal for connection with the charging terminal to supply power to the rechargeable battery, a receiving part for receiving signals from the plurality of transmission parts, and a control part for controlling a movement of the robot cleaner using the signals received by the receiving part, so that the connection terminal is connected to the charging terminal.

A self-propelled working robot according to the present invention comprises a traveling assembly (1) having a wheel (6) and first and second working assemblies (20, 50) that are detachable from the traveling assembly 81). One of the first and second working assemblies (20, 50) is selectively mounted on the traveling assembly (1). Each working assembly has a type identification means (33) that enables identification of a type of the working assembly. The traveling assembly (1) has a driving motor (5) that drives the wheel (6), a wheel controlling means (41) that controls rotation of the driving motor (5), a discriminating means (38) that discriminates which of the working assemblies is mounted and a work signal output means (39) that outputs a work signal for actuating the working assembly (20, 50) in response to a result of a discrimination.

The invention discloses a method for controlling a cleaning robot. The method includes that the cleaning robot runs a round along boundaries of a zone to be cleaned with an origin as a start point, and records boundary feature points of the zone to be cleaned; the zone to be cleaned is divided into a plurality of sub zones according to XY coordinates, and all the sub zones are cleaned orderly; the cleaning start points of the cleaning robot in all the sub zones in the same row are identical, and when the cleaning robot enters a sub zone in the next row to perform clean, the cleaning robot will take a point having a shortest distance with a position of the cleaning robot as a start point to start cleaning the sub zones in the next row. A user can know which sub zones in the zone to be cleaned are cleaned and which sub zones are not be cleaned according to the current position of the robot, and convenience is provided for the user; the cleaning effect of the whole zone to be cleaned can be improved; and the problem that some places in the sub zones are repeatedly cleaned by the cleaning robot and some places are not cleaned by the cleaning robot due to position coordinate errors can be avoided.

A floor cleaning machine having a body in which the body cover assembly is hollow and serves as the recovery solution reservoir; while the lower body assembly, which is also hollow, serves as the cleaning solution tank or reservoir. In addition, the lower body has a recessed area proportioned to receive and secure the batteries required for driving the motors involved in the floor cleaning machine. A trans-axle drive supports the lower body and has a drive wheel at each end powered by a motor differential engaging the axles coupled to the wheels. Together the body and trans-axle drive comprise a modular power unit. Mounting means are provided on the forward portion of the lower body of the power unit for lift arms to be secured to various power floor scrubbers for use on hard floors or a carpet extractor for cleaning carpeted floors. The linkage for the floor scrubber mode and carpet cleaning mode is the same. Such linkage also uses a maximum number of resiliently mounted bushings which, along with the monocoque body and retained fluid movement, cushion against damage by impact under power.

The robot cleaner includes a main body configured to remove dust from a floor while traveling on the floor, the main body having a lateral rim defining the external appearance of a lateral surface of the robot cleaner, and at least one side brush assembly mounted to the main body to clean the corner of the floor. The side brush assembly includes a side arm pivotably coupled to the main body, the side arm moving between a first position where the side arm is inserted into the main body and a second position where the side arm protrudes outward from the lateral rim of the main body, a brush unit provided at the side arm to sweep the floor, and a rim cover coupled to the side arm to form a part of the lateral rim of the main body when the side arm is inserted into the main body.

The invention belongs to the technical field of cleaning robots, and particularly relates to a dirt recognizing system of a cleaning robot and a cleaning method. The dirt recognizing system, namely a detecting unit, comprises a dust recognizing device and an attachment recognizing device. The dust recognizing device, namely a dust sensor, comprises a light transmitting element and a light receiving element. The dirt recognizing device comprises an image acquiring unit and an image processing unit. The cleaning method includes dust suction and floor mopping, dust suction time and power are determined by dust quantity detected in real time, and floor mopping frequency is determined by the quantity of attachment on floors. The system has an ability of actively recognizing dirt, cleaning force and cleaning time can be adjusted in real time according to the dirt quantity, and accordingly the floors are cleaned efficiently on the premise of guaranteeing cleaning quality.

A wet extraction floor cleaning device having a base assembly adapted for movement on a surface being cleaned, an operating handle pivotally attached to the base assembly, a supply tank having a supply tank outlet, and a recovery tank having a recovery tank inlet and a recovery tank outlet. The base assembly has an inlet nozzle that extends from an inlet slit proximal the surface being cleaned to a nozzle outlet. The device further includes a fluid deposition assembly that can be selectively placed in fluid communication with the supply tank outlet, a vacuum source, and first and second external pockets. The supply and recovery tanks are adapted to be selectively placed in the first and second external pockets, thereby placing the supply tank outlet in fluid communication with the fluid deposition system, the recovery tank inlet in fluid communication with the nozzle outlet, and the recovery tank outlet in fluid communication with the vacuum source inlet.

A robot cleaner includes a drive unit for driving a plurality of wheels, a camera disposed in a body for photographing an upper image extending perpendicular to a running direction, a controller for recognizing a position by using position information obtained from a recognition mark formed on a ceiling of a working area that is photographed by the camera, and controlling the drive unit by using the recognized position information to correspond to a target cleaning operation. Accordingly, since the recognition mark for the recognition of a current position of the robot cleaner is formed on a ceiling that has a few changes, the position recognition is performed with more accuracy and the traveling of the robot cleaner to the target work area and a cleaning operation is performed efficiently.

A robot cleaner includes a main body, a traveling unit installed in the main body, to move the main body, an ultrasonic sensor to emit an oscillation wave, to receive a reflection wave reflected from an object surface, and to output vibration generated by the oscillation wave and vibration generated by the reception of the reflection wave as an electrical signal, a waveform analyzer to calculate a generation time period of the electrical signal output from the ultrasonic sensor, and a controller to determine information about the object surface based on the calculated generation time period of the electrical signal, and to control movement of the traveling unit based on the information about the object surface.

The invention discloses a miniature robot capable of walking and cleaning on vertical surfaces such as a glass curtain wall and a ceramic outer wall. The robot walks through a track provided with a sucker, the track sucker is connected with a vacuum pump, and local vacuum is formed by air extraction so as to generate negative pressure; the sucker is of a specially designed structure with an air valve to exhaust through lever action; a steering sucker is arranged in the middle of a robot chassis, a motor controls a ball screw to operate so that a robot vehicle body rotates around the axis of the steering sucker so as to steer; an ultrasonic detection and feedback device is arranged at the front end of the robot vehicle body to guarantee the robot to measure and avoid barriers in real time during the walking process; and a fog-shaped spraying device, a drum brushing and washing device and a scraping plate washing device are installed on the robot vehicle body to clean the wall surface during the walking process of the robot. By means of the multi-technology multi-science combination, namely combination of a robot system function, a mechanical structure, a movement mechanism, an electronic circuit, a sensing detection, a program control and the like of the robot, the robot can reliably walk and efficiently clean on vertical surfaces such as the glass curtain wall and the ceramic outer wall.

A cleaning appliance of the canister type includes a substantially spherical floor engaging rolling assembly including a fluid inlet for receiving a fluid flow and a device for acting on the fluid flow received through the inlet, and a plurality of floor engaging support members for supporting the rolling assembly as it is manoeuvred over a floor surface.

A cleaning robot having improved traveling performance and a method of controlling the same. The cleaning robot detects a stuck state such as a ‘jammed state, ‘lifted state’, or ‘object-caught state’ by using a motion instruction or sensor information and quickly escapes from the stuck state caused in various traveling conditions by using a wheel structure capable of changing a total height of the cleaning robot. In addition, a degree of risk and type of the stuck state is predicted before the cleaning robot is in the stuck state so that the cleaning robot may deal with the stuck state in advance. The cleaning robot may escape from the stuck state via rapidly deceleration or quick stopping in accordance with the predicted degree of risk of the stuck state, and the cleaning robot may efficiently deal with the stuck state by using information to select an escaping method suitable for the type of the stuck state.

The invention discloses a control method and system for a sweeping robot, a cloud server and the sweeping robot. The control method comprises the following steps that the sweeping robot takes a ground image of the ground inside a room, and uploads the ground image to the cloud server; the cloud server analyzes the ground image to obtain a to-be-cleaned area and the ground dirtying degree of the ground inside the room; the cloud server judges whether the ground dirtying degree is greater than a first preset threshold value or not; when the ground dirtying degree is greater than the first preset threshold value, the cloud server sends the to-be-cleaned area to the sweeping robot; and the sweeping robot cleans the to-be-cleaned area. According to the method provided by the invention, the current environmental condition can be judged automatically, and cleaning is carried out according to the current environmental condition, so that the cleaning for the ground is realized in the real sense, and the practicability is strong.

The invention relates to the technical field of cleaning robots, and particularly relates to a base station and a cleaning robot system. The base station provided by the invention is arranged independent of a cleaning robot of the cleaning robot system, and further, the base station comprises a base station body and a mopping-wiping member cleaning device, wherein the mopping-wiping member cleaning device is arranged on the base station body; the mopping-wiping member cleaning device is used for cleaning a mopping-wiping member, which is used for mopping and wiping a ground surface, of the cleaning robot. Based on the base station provided by the invention, the cleaning robot system can realize the automatic cleaning on the mopping-wiping member; a user does not need to frequently replace and wash the mopping-wiping member any more; thus, the further extrication of the user from the cleaning process of the ground surface is facilitated; the cleaning load of the user is lightened; the realization of the more timely cleaning on the mopping-wiping member is also facilitated; the influence on a mopping-wiping effect as the mopping-wiping member is not replaced and washed in time is prevented.

The invention discloses an intelligent cleaning robot capable of realizing automatic navigation, floor mopping, charging and duster cloth cleaning. The intelligent cleaning robot comprises a cleaning robot body and a base station with functions of automatically mopping a floor, charging and cleaning duster cloth, wherein the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth is an L-shaped fixing device; the cleaning robot body is mutually separated from the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth; the cleaning robot body and the base station move separately and freely; the front part of the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth is provided with an automatic charging contact end, and the base station is internally provided with a water filtration and dust extraction system and a water filtration system; the bottom of the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth is provided with a water trough which is used for automatically cleaning the duster cloth; the cleaning robot body is provided with a navigation component, and the navigation component is a three-coordinate digital gyroscope module. The intelligent cleaning robot has the characteristics of convenience in use, accuracy in positioning, sensitiveness in control response, low cost, small size and the like.

The invention relates to a ground cleaning robot. The ground cleaning robot comprises a charging seat and a robot main body, wherein a transmission unit is arranged on the charging seat and comprises a pair of lateral transmitting elements which are arranged on the left side and the right side of the charging seat; each lateral transmitting element can alternatively transmit far signals and near signals with the same transmission angle and different transmission radiuses; the far signals and the near signals respectively form a far signal coverage area and a near signal coverage area; the right side part of the far signal coverage area on the left side and the left side part of the far signal coverage area on the right side are overlapped to form a butt joint area; the robot main body comprises rechargeable batteries and a receiving unit; the receiving unit at least comprises three receiving elements; the three receiving elements are respectively arranged at the front end, the front end left side and the front end right side of the robot main body. With arrangement of the three receiving elements and the two lateral transmitting elements on the charging seat, the robot can utilize a simple method to realize charging butt joint between the robot main body and the charging seat.

A muffler for a steam cleaning apparatus comprising a housing having a first and a second inlet, and an outlet, a plurality of baffles disposed within, and coupled to the housing, wherein the plurality of baffles are covered with a foam; wherein the first inlet is pneumatically coupled to an air pump of the steam cleaning apparatus, and wherein the first inlet provides to the housing a stream of humid air from an application subsystem of the steam cleaning apparatus; and wherein the second inlet receives combustion exhaust from a combustion motor that drives an air pump that is operationally coupled to the application subsystem, and wherein the outlet releases air comprising combustion exhaust of the motor.