ROBOT CLEANER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ROBOT CLEANER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robot cleaner and a method of controlling the robot cleaner for improving foreign substance removal ability at a corner in a cleaning travel mode.SOLUTION: A robot cleaner includes: a main body traveling along a floor surface and removing foreign substances in a cleaning travel mode; a sensor sensing obstacles around the main body; side brush units extending a cleaning area through rotation; and a controller reducing the traveling velocity of the main body and causing the main body to approach a front obstacle, if an area where a plurality of obstacles are in contact is sensed through the sensor.