ROBOT CLEANER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THEREOF

摘要

PURPOSE: A robot cleaner and a controlling method thereof are provided to reduce a duplicated cleaning area or a non-cleaning area by cleaning with moving along a driving path inside a reset cleaning area. CONSTITUTION: A robot cleaner comprises an input unit(100) and a control unit(160). The input unit receives a command for a cleaning mode. The control unit defines a plurality of cleaning areas based on the position of the robot cleaner when a first cleaning mode is selected. The control unit performs cleaning in order to clean each defined area. The control unit re-defines a cleaning area or a cleaning direction which belongs to the robot cleaner along a detected standard wall surface. The control unit drives along a predetermined driving path in re-defined cleaning area and performs the cleaning. [Reference numerals] (100) Input unit; (110) Photographing unit; (120) Positioning unit; (130) Feature map generating unit; (140) Obstacle sensing unit; (150) Path map generating unit; (160) Control unit; (170) Storage unit