Pool cleaner with drive motor navigation capabilities
AssigneeMaytronics Ltd.
InventorsSemion Korenfeld, Shay 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 a certain region of a sidewall of the pool; wherein the cleaning path comprises a cleaning path segment that has a cleaning path segment yaw that is a non-vertical 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
Claims28
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 a certain region of a sidewall of the pool;
- wherein the cleaning path comprises a cleaning path segment that has a cleaning path segment yaw that is a non-vertical yaw;
- wherein the certain region is fully submerged;
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- a controller that is configured to control the at least one steering element, based on the actual yaw of the pool cleaner.
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A method for operating a pool cleaner, the method comprises
- 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;
- cleaning, by the pool cleaner, a certain region of a sidewall of a pool while moving the pool cleaner, by at least one steering element of the pool cleaner, along a cleaning path that comprises a cleaning path segment that has a cleaning path segment yaw that is non-vertical yaw;
- wherein the certain region is fully submerged;
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- 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.