Robot for wet cleaning of a floor surface and method for controlling the robot
AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsFrank Schnitzer, Stefan Hassfurter
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Abstract
A method for controlling a robot for the wet cleaning of a floor surface includes traveling over the floor surface and wet cleaning a portion of the floor surface which has been traveled over. A degree of wetness of a portion of the floor surface to be traveled over by the robot is determined, and the portion is traveled over only when the degree of wetness is below a predetermined threshold value. A robot for wet cleaning of a floor surface is also provided.
Claims10
A method for controlling a robot for wet cleaning of a floor surface, the method comprising:
- causing the robot to travel over the floor surface and wet clean a portion of the floor surface having been traveled over;
- determining a degree of wetness of the portion of the floor surface to be traveled over by the robot;
- and
- causing the robot to travel over the portion only upon the degree of wetness being below a predetermined threshold value.
A robot for wet cleaning of a floor surface, the robot comprising:
- a drive facility for causing the robot to travel over the floor surface;
- a cleaning facility for wet cleaning of a portion of the floor surface to be traveled over;
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- a treatment facility configured to determine a degree of wetness of the portion of the floor surface to be traveled over by the robot and configured to cause the robot to travel over the portion only upon the degree of wetness being below a predetermined threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.