Robot cleaner, control system of robot cleaner and control method of robot cleaner
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsInbo Shim, Hwan Yoo, Seungjin Ahn
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a robot cleaner, a control system of a robot cleaner and a control method of a robot cleaner, and the invention includes a robot cleaner that stores a map including information on a drivable area of a cleaning area and drives in the cleaning area and a terminal that inputs a cleaning command to the robot cleaner, the terminal setting a virtual designated area on the map in response to a user input, the robot cleaner moving to the designated area and driving within the designated area when the designated area is set from the terminal, and thus, the invention has the effect of intensively cleaning the designated area arbitrarily designated by a user.
Claims6
A control system, comprising:
- a robot cleaner configured to:
- store a map including information on a drivable area of a cleaning area, and
- drive within the cleaning area;
- and
- a terminal configured to input a cleaning command to the robot cleaner,
- wherein the terminal is configured to display the cleaning area on the map and set a designated area in a form of a surface connecting a plurality of points, within the cleaning area in response to a user's touch input to the terminal,
- wherein the terminal is configured to display a plurality of divided areas on the map, to set the designated area so as to extend across at least two of the plurality of divided areas, and to allow the designated area to be set while passing through boundaries between the plurality of divided areas when the designated area is set across at least two of the plurality of divided areas, and
- wherein the robot cleaner is further configured to move to the designated area and drive within the designated area, in response to the designated area being set from the terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.