Pool cleaner with drive motor navigation capabilities
AssigneeMaytronics Ltd.
InventorShay Witelson
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Abstract
A pool cleaner for cleaning a pool, the pool cleaner may include a filtering element for filtering fluid; at least one sensor for sensing an actual yaw of the pool cleaner and an actual orientation of the pool cleaner; at least one steering element that is configured to move the pool cleaner along a cleaning path, during a cleaning process of segments of multiple sidewalls of the pool; wherein the cleaning path mostly includes substantially horizontal cleaning path segments that have a cleaning path segment yaw that is a substantially horizontal yaw; wherein the certain region is fully submerged; and a controller that is configured to control the at least one steering element, based on the actual yaw of the pool cleaner.
Claims21
A pool cleaner for cleaning a pool, the pool cleaner comprising:
- a filtering element for filtering fluid;
- at least one sensor for sensing an actual yaw of the pool cleaner and an actual orientation of the pool cleaner;
- at least one steering element that is configured to move the pool cleaner along a cleaning path, during a cleaning process of segments of multiple sidewalls of the pool;
- wherein the cleaning path mostly includes horizontal cleaning path segments that have a cleaning path segment yaw that is a horizontal yaw;
- wherein the certain region is fully submerged;
- and
- a controller that is configured to control the at least one steering element, based on the actual yaw of the pool cleaner.
A method for cleaning multiple sidewalls of a pool, the method comprising:
- filtering, by a filtering element of a pool cleaner robot, fluid;
- sensing, by at least one sensor of the pool cleaner, an actual yaw of the pool cleaner and an actual orientation of the pool cleaner;
- moving, by at least one steering element of the pool cleaner, the pool cleaner along a cleaning path, during a cleaning process of segments of multiple sidewalls of the pool;
- wherein the cleaning path mostly includes horizontal cleaning path segments that have a cleaning path segment yaw that is a horizontal yaw;
- wherein the certain region is fully submerged;
- and
- controlling, by a controller of the pool cleaner, the at least one steering element, based on the actual yaw of the pool cleaner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.