AI Cleaner Movement Detection for Priority Area Cleaning Mode
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional robot cleaners lack the ability to automatically prioritize and intensively clean specific areas desired by users, often missing important cleaning areas due to pre-programmed routes and requiring user intervention.
Innovation Solution
An artificial intelligence cleaner equipped with sensors like movement detect sensors, image sensors, and obstacle detectors that allow it to switch to a meticulous cleaning mode upon user intervention, detecting user movement and prioritizing cleaning based on sensed information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If the robot cleaner operates according to a pre-programmed cleaning route, then the cleaning process is automated and follows a predetermined path, but the user cannot prioritize specific areas that need cleaning first
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning route is made dynamic by allowing real-time modifications based on user interaction. The system transitions from a static pre-programmed route to a dynamic route that adapts when the user moves the cleaner to a specific location, enabling priority area cleaning while maintaining overall automation
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from movement detection sensors to sense when the user relocates the cleaner. This feedback triggers a mode switch from general cleaning to meticulous cleaning, allowing the system to adapt its behavior based on user input while maintaining automated operation
2Ease of operation
If the user manually moves the robot cleaner to a desired area using a remote controller, then the cleaner can reach the priority area, but the cleaner still follows the preset route and does not necessarily clean the desired area
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of user intent by detecting when the cleaner is moved from its automatic path. Upon detecting user manipulation, it proactively switches to meticulous cleaning mode at the new location, ensuring the area is actually cleaned rather than just reached
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning mode dynamically switches from general cleaning to meticulous cleaning based on user action. This dynamic adjustment ensures that when the user manually positions the cleaner, the system responds with appropriate intensive cleaning at that location
3Reliability
If the robot cleaner waits for the user to indicate a priority area, then it can potentially clean the desired area, but the user must wait for the cleaner to arrive at the area according to the preset route
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of user intent through movement detection. When the user moves the cleaner, the system immediately recognizes this as a priority area indication and switches to meticulous cleaning mode, eliminating the need for the user to wait for the preset route to naturally bring the cleaner to that location
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AI summary
An artificial intelligence (AI) cleaner according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a memory, a movement detect sensor, a driving unit configured to allow the AI cleaner to be moved, and a processor configured to control the movement sensor to sense a movement of the AI cleaner by a user and acquire a position to which the AI cleaner has moved while the AI cleaner operates at a first cleaning mode and control the driving unit to allow the AI cleaner to clean a priority cleaning area corresponding to the position at a second cleaning mode.