Robot Cleaner Door Control for Noise Isolation and Complete Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Robot cleaners face challenges in navigating through spaces with doors, as they often recognize doors as obstacles, leading to incomplete cleaning and potential noise disturbance.
Innovation Solution
The robot cleaner is equipped with a driving device and a cleaning device, controlled by a processor, to navigate and clean while opening or closing doors based on detected entities, and can receive location information to set cleaning sequences and control door opening/closing devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the robot cleaner recognizes doors as obstacles to avoid collision, then safety is improved, but cleaning coverage deteriorates because the robot cannot enter rooms through doors
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of entities (people, pets, objects) in the cleaning area before the robot enters. Based on this advance detection, the door control device is activated to open the door in advance, allowing the robot to smoothly enter the room without treating the door as an obstacle, thus improving both safety and cleaning coverage
Solution Approach 2:
A door control device acts as an intermediary between the robot cleaner and the door. This intermediary device receives control signals from the server or robot, automatically opens or closes doors, enabling the robot to pass through without direct interaction, thereby improving cleaning coverage while maintaining safety through controlled operation
2Productivity
If the robot cleaner operates in cleaning areas with doors, then cleaning coverage is improved, but noise disturbance worsens because the robot cannot close doors to isolate noise
Solution Approach 1:
After the robot completes cleaning in a room, the system performs preliminary detection to confirm no entities remain in the cleaning area. Based on this detection, the door control device automatically closes the door in advance, isolating the noise from the robot's operation (such as motor sounds, brush noises) from the user's space, thus reducing noise disturbance while maintaining full cleaning coverage
Solution Approach 2:
The server continuously receives real-time location information from the robot cleaner and provides feedback about the robot's position and cleaning status. Based on this feedback, the system determines when the robot has completed cleaning and automatically triggers door closing to isolate noise, creating a closed-loop control system that dynamically adjusts door state based on cleaning progress
3Ease of operation
If the robot cleaner autonomously controls door opening/closing, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity worsens due to integration of door control devices and entity detection systems
Solution Approach 1:
The robot cleaner system performs self-service by autonomously detecting entities in cleaning areas and automatically controlling door opening and closing operations without user intervention. The server or robot itself generates control signals based on detected conditions, enabling the system to manage its own operation across multiple rooms independently, thus improving ease of operation despite the added complexity of integrated components
Data Source
AI summary
A robot cleaner is provided. The robot cleaner includes a driving device, a cleaning device, memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the driving device, the cleaning device, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed individually or collectively by the at least one processor, cause the robot cleaner to control the driving device to move the robot cleaner into a cleaning area, perform control to open or close a door of the cleaning area based on whether an entity detected in the cleaning area, and control the driving device and the cleaning device to perform cleaning of the cleaning area while the door is closed.