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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous robotic floor cleaning equipment fails to recognize its surroundings and adequately react to changes, leading to potential collisions and inefficiencies in the cleaning operation.
Innovation Solution
A robotic floor cleaning machine equipped with a control system that includes sensors such as optical sensors, distance sensors, laser scanners, and vibration sensors to detect objects and monitor the cleaning operation, allowing for autonomous navigation and efficient cleaning path management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If autonomous robotic floor cleaning equipment is deployed without comprehensive sensor systems, then device complexity is reduced, but the ability to recognize surroundings and react to changes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor system is divided into multiple specialized sensors (optical sensors for object detection, distance sensors for navigation, vibration sensors for cleaning monitoring, laser scanners for mapping). Each sensor handles a specific detection task, allowing the system to achieve comprehensive environmental awareness through modular segmentation rather than a single complex sensor system.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system integrates multiple sensor types into a unified autonomous navigation and cleaning management platform. The control system processes data from all sensors to perform both navigation (avoiding obstacles, following paths) and cleaning operation monitoring (detecting pad wear, solution levels), making the system multi-functional and reducing overall complexity.
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors are added to detect objects and monitor cleaning operations, then measurement precision improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple sensors (optical, distance, vibration, laser scanners) are merged into a single integrated control system that processes all sensor data. This consolidation allows the system to achieve high measurement precision for object detection and cleaning monitoring while managing complexity through unified data processing rather than separate independent systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system acts as an intermediary that receives data from multiple specialized sensors and translates it into actionable information for navigation and cleaning operations. This intermediary layer processes sensor inputs to detect objects, determine cleaning effectiveness, and control autonomous movement, separating the complexity of sensor integration from the core cleaning functions.
3Productivity
If autonomous navigation and cleaning monitoring are implemented, then productivity improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control system continuously receives feedback from sensors monitoring cleaning operations (pad wear, solution levels, object detection) and autonomously adjusts navigation and cleaning parameters. This feedback loop enables the system to maintain high productivity by automatically responding to environmental changes and cleaning status without human intervention, while the modular feedback architecture manages control complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The robotic cleaning system performs self-navigation, self-monitoring of cleaning operations, and self-adjustment of cleaning parameters through its integrated control system. The system autonomously detects its own cleaning effectiveness via sensors and adjusts its operation accordingly, enabling self-service functionality that improves productivity while consolidating control functions to manage complexity.
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AI summary
A control system for a robotic floor cleaning machine configured to perform a cleaning operation along a cleaning path can comprise a controller, and a plurality of sensors. The controller can be configured to control autonomous movement of the robotic floor cleaning machine along the cleaning path and autonomous performance of the cleaning operation. The plurality of sensors can be configured to sense a location of the robotic floor cleaning machine relative to surroundings of the robotic floor cleaning machine. At least two sensors from the plurality of sensors are configured to locate the robotic floor cleaning machine in overlapping areas of the surroundings.