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US 2024/0374095 A1Published application
Mobile cleaning robot with skids
AssigneeiRobot Corporation
InventorsTimothy R. Ohm, Erik Amaral, Andrew Deschenes
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Abstract
A mobile cleaning robot can include a body, a drive wheel, and a plurality of skids. The drive wheel can be connected to the body and can be engageable with a floor surface of an environment. The drive wheel can be operable to move the mobile cleaning robot about an environment. The skids can be separate skids that can be connected to the body and can be engageable with the floor surface to support, together with the drive wheel, the mobile cleaning robot with respect to the floor surface.
Claims23
A mobile cleaning robot comprising:
- a body including a bottom plate;
- a drive wheel connected to the body, the drive wheel operable to move the mobile cleaning robot about an environment when the drive wheel is engaged with a floor surface of the environment;
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- a plurality of skids connected to and extending from the bottom plate of the body, the plurality of skids engageable with the floor surface to support, together with the drive wheel, the mobile cleaning robot with respect to the floor surface.
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A mobile cleaning robot comprising:
- a body including a bottom plate;
- a pair of drive wheels connected to the body, the pair of drive wheels operable to move the mobile cleaning robot about an environment when one or more of the pair of drive wheels are engaged with a floor surface of the environment, and the pair of drive wheels each vertically movable with respect to the body and the bottom plate;
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- a first skid, a second skid, and a third skid respectively fixedly coupled to the bottom plate of the body and spaced apart from each other, each skid engageable with the floor surface to, together with the drive wheels, define a ride height of the mobile cleaning robot with respect to the floor surface.
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A mobile cleaning robot comprising:
- a body including a bottom plate;
- a drive wheel connected to the body, the drive wheel operable to move the mobile cleaning robot about an environment when the drive wheel is engaged with a floor surface of the environment, and the drive wheel movable to travel at least in part vertically with respect to the body and the bottom plate;
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- a plurality of skids connected to and extending from the bottom plate of the body, the plurality of skids engageable with the floor surface to, together with the drive wheel, define a ride height of the mobile cleaning robot with respect to the floor surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.