Robot Cleaner Image Feedback for Selective Obstacle Cleaning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Robot cleaners often operate autonomously, leading to undesired cleaning situations, such as picking up children's toys or pet excrement, which can worsen the cleaning state by smearing or distributing the substances.
Innovation Solution
A robot cleaner equipped with a camera, communication unit, and controller that captures images of foreign substances, transmits them to a mobile terminal or server, and executes cleaning instructions received from the user, allowing for selective cleaning based on user input to avoid certain areas or substances.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the robot cleaner operates autonomously to clean foreign substances, then cleaning productivity is improved, but harmful effects occur when picking up children's toys or pet excrement which can worsen the cleaning state by smearing or distributing the substances
Solution Approach 1:
The robot cleaner performs preliminary image capture and recognition of foreign substances before executing cleaning operations. The controller identifies whether detected objects are cleanable foreign substances or non-cleanable objects (toys, excrement) in advance, and only proceeds with cleaning when appropriate, preventing harmful smearing or distribution of substances
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses image capture and recognition to provide feedback about the nature of detected foreign substances. Based on this feedback, the controller makes intelligent decisions about whether to clean or avoid specific objects, enabling selective cleaning that prevents harmful effects while maintaining cleaning productivity
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are a robot cleaner and a robot cleaning system having the same. The robot cleaner includes a main body, a traveling unit configured to move the main body, a cleaning unit configured to execute cleaning, a camera configured to capture an image including foreign substances, a communication unit configured to exchange data with a mobile terminal or a server, and a controller configured to control transmission of the image including the foreign substances and image related information to the mobile terminal or the server and to execute cleaning of an area around the foreign substances based on cleaning execution information regarding the foreign substances or to execute no cleaning of the area around the foreign substances based on cleaning avoidance information regarding the foreign substances, transmitted from the mobile terminal or the server. Thereby, the robot cleaner may selectively clean foreign substances.