Scheduling and control system for autonomous robots
AssigneeiRobot Corporation
InventorsBenjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White, Brent Hild
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Abstract
An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data representing an editable mission timeline including data representing a sequence of rooms to be cleaned, navigate the cleaning robot to clean the rooms following the sequence, track operational events occurring in each of the rooms, and transmit data about time spent navigating each room included in the sequence.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile device, data indicative of a first predicted time for a mobile cleaning robot to complete cleaning of a first room and a second predicted time for the mobile cleaning robot to complete cleaning of a second room;
- presenting, on a user interface of the mobile device, at least one predicted cleaning time based on the first and second predicted times;
- receiving, at the mobile device, an update regarding the cleaning of the first room;
- and
- changing a presentation of the at least one predicted cleaning time based on the update.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions configured to cause a computing system to:
- receive, at a mobile device, data indicative of a first predicted time for a mobile cleaning robot to complete cleaning of a first room and a second predicted time for the mobile cleaning robot to complete cleaning of a second room;
- present, on a user interface of the mobile device, at least one predicted cleaning time based on first and second predicted times;
- receive, at the mobile device, an update regarding the cleaning of the first room;
- and
- change a presentation of the at least one predicted cleaning time based on the update.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.