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US 10,518,881 B2Granted
UAV, method and system for cleaning a wall body
AssigneeSz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorsAng Liu, Yuwei Wu
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Abstract
A method for cleaning a wall body with a UAV includes obtaining a path to be cleaned; flying to a region to be cleaned according to the path to be cleaned; recognizing a wall surface in the region to be cleaned; and using a cleaning device carried by the UAV to clean the wall surface.
Claims20
A method for cleaning a wall body by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), comprising:
- obtaining a path to be cleaned;
- flying said UAV to a current region according to said path to be cleaned;
- determining whether there is a cleaning prohibition identifier associated with the current region, the cleaning prohibition identifier identifying regions that do not need to be cleaned;
- and
- recognizing the current region based on whether there is the cleaning prohibition identifier, including:
- if there is a cleaning prohibition identifier:
- recognizing the current region as a cleaning prohibition region;
- and
- controlling said UAV to fly over the cleaning prohibition region without cleaning the cleaning prohibition region;
- and
- if there is no cleaning prohibition identifier:
- recognizing the current region as a region to be cleaned;
- recognizing a wall surface of said region to be cleaned;
- and
- using a cleaning device carried by said UAV to clean said wall surface.
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An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), comprising:
- a memory for storing a path to be cleaned;
- a positioning sensor for obtaining information about a current position of the UAV;
- a wall surface recognition sensor for obtaining information about a wall surface;
- and
- a controller communicatively connected to said memory, said positioning sensor and said wall surface recognition sensor, for obtaining said path to be cleaned, said information about said wall surface, and said information about the current position;
- wherein said controller is configured to:
- send a flying control signal for flying to a current region according to said path to be cleaned and said information about the current position,
- determine whether there is a cleaning prohibition identifier associated with the current region, the cleaning prohibition identifier identifying regions that do not need to be cleaned;
- and
- recognize the current region based on whether there is the cleaning prohibition identifier, including:
- if there is a cleaning prohibition identifier:
- recognizing the current region as a cleaning prohibition region;
- and
- controlling said UAV to fly over the cleaning prohibition region without cleaning the cleaning prohibition region;
- and
- if there is no cleaning prohibition identifier:
- recognizing the current region as a region to be cleaned;
- and
- sending a cleaning control signal for cleaning said wall surface according to said information about said wall surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.