Techniques for bounding cleaning operations of a robotic surface cleaning device within a region of interest

A cleaning system comprising:

• a robotic surface cleaning device configured to autonomously travel about a surrounding environment while collecting dirt and debris;
• a hand-held surface cleaning device comprising:
• a body having a handle and a nozzle;
• a power supply;
• a suction motor fluidly coupled to the nozzle;
• an antenna arrangement to communicate with the robotic surface cleaning device;
• and
• at least a first sensor to capture a plurality of location data points, each location data point corresponding to a physical location in the surrounding environment;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• translate the captured location data points into a plurality of localized coordinates, each localized coordinate of the plurality of localized coordinates corresponding to locations in a map that virtually represents the surrounding environment;
• identify at least one region of interest in the map based on the translated localized coordinates;
• and
• send a command to cause the robotic surface cleaning device to remain substantially within areas of the surrounding environment corresponding to the at least one identified region of interest during cleaning operations.