Equipment for controlling movement of mobile robot, e.g. for cleaning purposes, has driving mechanism, control unit, device for detection of obstacles, element for identifying current location and power source

摘要

The robot (1) has a driving mechanism which includes a motor control unit (31), a motor (32) and wheels (33). Guidance is provided by two systems. The first identifies the current robot location by using a camera (21) which takes an image of the ceiling and a ceiling benchmark and the second employs an alignment laser (41), a camera (43) and a vision card (45) to detect obstacles and their shape Independent claims are made for the methods used to control and drive the robot