Cleaning control method and device, cleaning robot and storage medium
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cleaning robots tend to contaminate cleaned areas when moving between them for charging or cleaning, leading to poor cleaning efficiency and effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A cleaning control method where the robot determines a first cleaning starting point on the edge of the area opposite to the cleaning direction, allowing it to clean from the inner end to the entrance edge, preventing pollution of the cleaned floor and improving efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the cleaning robot moves through the entrance/exit to the base station for charging or cleaning, then the robot can perform charging or cleaning operations, but the cleaned entrance/exit becomes contaminated
Solution Approach 1:
The robot determines a first cleaning starting point on the edge of the area opposite to the cleaning direction before starting the cleaning operation. This preliminary determination of the cleaning path ensures that the robot will clean from the inner end toward the entrance edge, preventing contamination of the cleaned floor when returning to the base station through the entrance/exit.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of cleaning from the entrance edge toward the inner end (conventional approach), the robot cleans from the inner end toward the entrance edge (reversed approach). This inversion of the cleaning direction ensures that the cleaned floor is not contaminated when the robot passes through the entrance/exit to the base station.
2Ease of operation
If the cleaning robot cleans from the entrance edge toward the inner end, then the cleaning operation follows the conventional path, but the cleaned floor gets polluted when the robot returns through the entrance/exit
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the conventional cleaning direction by determining the first cleaning starting point on the edge opposite to the cleaning direction (entrance edge). The robot then cleans from the inner end toward the entrance edge, reversing the traditional approach. This inversion prevents the cleaned floor from being contaminated when the robot returns through the entrance/exit to the base station.
Solution Approach 2:
Before starting the cleaning operation, the robot preliminarily determines the first cleaning starting point on the edge opposite to the cleaning direction. This preliminary action establishes the reversed cleaning path that will prevent contamination of the cleaned floor during subsequent movements through the entrance/exit.
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AI summary
This application discloses a cleaning control method applied to be executed by a cleaning robot used with a base station when cleans an unknown area to be cleaned. The method includes: obtaining an area map representing an area to be cleaned or a sub-area to be cleaned which is an uncleaned area in the area to be cleaned; determining a first cleaning starting point of the area to be cleaned or the sub-area to be cleaned based on the area map, the first cleaning starting point being a point on an edge of the area to be cleaned or the sub-area to be cleaned opposite to the cleaning direction; and performing a cleaning operation on the area to be cleaned or the sub-area to be cleaned from the first cleaning starting point. A device, a cleaning robot and a storage medium are also disclosed.