Swimming Pool Cleaning Robot Grid Mapping for Efficient Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional swimming pool cleaning robots fail to efficiently plan cleaning paths, resulting in prolonged cleaning times, inadequate coverage, and high power consumption, which negatively impacts user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that control a swimming pool cleaning robot to move within a grid map of the pool, establishing a cleaning map by determining and marking reachable blocks, using algorithms to optimize movement and pathfinding, allowing the robot to efficiently traverse and clean the pool.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a conventional swimming pool cleaning robot performs cleaning without optimized path planning, then the robot can complete basic cleaning functions, but the cleaning time is prolonged and cleaning coverage is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the swimming pool cleaning task into discrete grid blocks, allowing the robot to systematically traverse and clean each segment. The cleaning area is segmented into multiple manageable units that can be processed in an optimized sequence, improving overall cleaning efficiency and coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary path planning and grid mapping before the actual cleaning process begins. The robot first establishes a grid map of the pool area, identifies reachable blocks, and plans the optimal traversal path in advance, which significantly reduces cleaning time and improves coverage compared to random or unplanned movement.
2Productivity
If a conventional swimming pool cleaning robot operates without optimized path planning, then the robot can perform cleaning tasks, but power consumption is high
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary path planning that optimizes the traversal sequence of grid blocks to minimize unnecessary movements and reduce energy consumption. By planning the path in advance based on the grid map and reachable blocks, the robot avoids random exploration and inefficient routing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent ensures continuous productive action by optimizing the traversal path through all reachable grid blocks without unnecessary idle movements. The robot systematically moves from one cleaning block to the next in an efficient sequence, maintaining continuous useful action and minimizing energy-wasting movements.
3Measurement precision
If a swimming pool cleaning robot uses grid map and block marking methods, then cleaning path planning accuracy is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the continuous swimming pool area into discrete grid blocks, transforming a complex continuous space navigation problem into a simpler discrete grid traversal problem. This segmentation enables accurate path planning through systematic block marking while reducing the computational complexity compared to continuous coordinate-based navigation.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for cleaning a swimming pool, and an electronic device and a storage medium thereof. The method includes: controlling a swimming pool cleaning robot to move, with respect to a grid map covering the swimming pool, in a work area defined in the swimming pool to establish a cleaning map including a plurality of cleaning blocks; and controlling the swimming pool cleaning robot to traverse each of the cleaning blocks in the cleaning map to clean the swimming pool. According to the present disclosure, the cleaning regions may be accurately constructed in the map according to the work area in the swimming pool, such that the swimming pool cleaning robot cleans the swimming pool in a quick, efficient, and energy-saving fashion.