Swimming Pool Robot Boundary Mapping for Complete Cleaning Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing swimming pool cleaning robots face inefficiencies and inaccuracies in constructing swimming pool map boundaries, leading to suboptimal cleaning tasks.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for constructing swimming pool map boundaries by controlling the robot to move forward and backward along preset paths, determining path endpoints, and constructing map boundaries based on these endpoints, using initial position and orientation determination, and path finding algorithms to ensure comprehensive coverage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If existing swimming pool cleaning robot performs map boundary construction, then cleaning task can be executed, but boundary accuracy is poor leading to incomplete cleaning coverage
Solution Approach 1:
The robot performs preliminary boundary construction tasks before the actual cleaning operation. By pre-mapping the pool boundaries and storing this spatial information, the robot establishes accurate boundary data that guides subsequent cleaning paths, ensuring complete cleaning coverage while maintaining efficient operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediate boundary construction map as a mediator between the robot and the cleaning task. This map serves as a spatial reference that translates boundary information into guided cleaning paths, improving both boundary accuracy and cleaning completeness without requiring direct real-time boundary detection during cleaning
2Measurement precision
If robot moves along preset paths to determine endpoints, then boundary construction accuracy improves, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The boundary construction process is segmented into discrete path operations. The robot divides the pool perimeter into multiple preset paths with defined endpoints, systematically determining each endpoint's position. This segmentation allows accurate boundary mapping through structured movement patterns while optimizing the time required for each segment
Solution Approach 2:
The robot employs periodic back-and-forth movement along preset paths to determine endpoints. By repeating controlled movements along predefined trajectories, the robot efficiently collects boundary information at regular intervals, balancing measurement accuracy with time efficiency through rhythmic, predictable motion patterns
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AI summary
A swimming pool map boundary construction and swimming pool cleaning methods, an apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. A swimming pool cleaning robot is controlled to move forward and backward relative to each preset path in a swimming pool map that covers a swimming pool within a working area defined by the swimming pool, to determine two path endpoints of each preset path, and map boundaries of the swimming pool map are constructed based on the determined two path endpoints of each preset path in the swimming pool map, so that the construction of swimming pool map boundaries is more efficient, reasonable and accurate. Moreover, the swimming pool cleaning task performed based on the swimming pool map constructed by the above method can achieve comprehensive cleaning of the swimming pool and avoid omissions.