An autonomous floor cleaner can include a housing, a drive system for autonomously moving the housing over the surface to be cleaned, a controller for controlling the operation of the autonomous floor cleaner, a tank adapted to hold liquid, and a carry handle joined with the tank and/or the housing. The carry handle is movable between different positions, including a position in which the autonomous floor cleaner can be lifted via the carry handle while an inlet and/or outlet of the tank is blocked.

An autonomous cleaning robot (e.g., an autonomous vacuum) may clean an environment using a cleaning head that is self-actuated. The cleaning head includes an actuator assembly comprising an actuator configured to control rotation and vertical movement of a cleaning roller, a controller, and a cleaning roller having an elongated cylindrical length connected to the actuator assembly. The cleaning head also includes a computer processor connected to the actuator assembly and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that causes the computer processor to map the environment based on sensor data captured by the autonomous vacuum. The computer processor may determine an optimal height for the cleaning head based on the map and instruct the actuator assembly to adjust the height of the cleaning head.

A robotic cleaner is disclosed. The robotic cleaner comprises a memory in which is stored information about a certain period of time divided into a plurality of sections on the basis of location-related information of a user obtained during the certain period of time and a processor configured to determine, on the basis of the information stored in the memory, a section to which a time that a user departure event occurred belongs among the plurality of sections when the user departure event occurs, to control the robotic cleaner to perform cleaning in an operation mode with a preset suction intensity when the determined section is a first section among the plurality of sections, and to control, on the basis of cleaning history information, the cleaning performance of the robotic cleaner when a second section among the plurality of sections starts after a user arrival event occurs, wherein, the first section may be determined to be where a user is absent in a cleaning space in the certain period of time, and the second section may be determined to be where a user is present in the cleaning space in the certain period of time.

A task performing method for a cleaning robot, according to the disclosure, comprises the operations of: photographing an object in proximity to the cleaning robot includes obtaining recognition information of the object included in the photographed image, by applying the photographed image to a trained artificial intelligence model, obtaining, from among a plurality of sensors, additional information of the object by using a result obtained by detecting the object by at least one sensor selected, based on the recognition information of the object, and performing a task of the cleaning robot based on the additional information of the object. The trained artificial intelligence model, for example, a deep learning neural network model, in which a plurality of network nodes having weights are located in different layers so as to exchange data according to a convolution relationship, can be used, but is not limited to the aforementioned example.

A riding floor cleaning machine having an intelligent system including a main frame sub-assembly, a steering and drive wheel sub-assembly, a solution tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank cover sub-assembly, a control panel sub-assembly, a main controller sub-assembly, a seat and detergent system sub-assembly, a battery sub-assembly, a scrub head sub-assembly, a scrub head lift sub-assembly, a squeegee sub-assembly, a solution and detergent sub-assembly, and an intelligent system associated with at least one of the above-identified sub-assemblies, wherein the intelligent system selectively gathers, obtains, monitors, stores, records, and/or analyzes data associated with components of the riding floor cleaning machine, and controllably communicates and/or disseminates such data with another system and/or user.

A floor cleaner including a base movable over a surface to be cleaned, a suction nozzle provided on the base having a suction inlet, a body portion having a fluid dispensing member selectively removable from the body portion, the body portion being pivotally mounted to the base movable between an upright storage position and an inclined floor cleaning position, a suction source in fluid communication with the suction nozzle, and a reservoir configured to provide solution. The fluid dispensing member includes a grip, a dispensing nozzle in fluid communication with the reservoir, and an actuator. The fluid dispensing member is configured to deliver solution from the reservoir through the dispensing nozzle upon user actuation of the actuator, independent of function of the base and body of the floor cleaner.

An autonomous mobile robot includes a drive system to support the robot above a surface, a sensor system configured to generate a signal indicative of a location of the robot on the surface, and a controller operably connected to the drive system and the sensor system. The drive system is operable to navigate the robot about the surface. The controller is configured to execute instructions to perform operations including establishing a behavior control zone on the surface, controlling the drive system, in response to establishing the behavior control zone on the surface, to maneuver the robot to a location of the behavior control zone on the surface, and maneuvering, using the drive system, the robot about the surface and initiating a behavior in response to determining, based on the signal indicative of the location of the robot, that the robot is proximate the behavior control zone.

A cleaning method of a cleaning robot includes, when the cleaning robot travels along an obstacle, driving a rear end of the cleaning robot, on which a cleaning member is arranged, to make multiple turning motions towards the obstacle and multiple backswings away from the obstacle, thereby cleaning a blind zone of the cleaning robot relative to the obstacle. In such a way, blind zones are cleaned when cleaning along obstacles.

A method of operating an autonomous mobile cleaning robot using image processing can include producing, using a front-facing camera of the robot, an imaging output based on an optical field of view of the front-facing camera, the imaging output. A first portion of the imaging output and a second portion of the imaging output can be determined. An image capture parameter of the front-facing camera can be adjusted based on the upper portion of the imaging output and the lower portion of the imaging output.

An automatically moving floor treatment appliance has an appliance housing, a drive, a detector for detecting surrounding area features, and a computer that transmits control commands to the drive, based on the surrounding area features detected by the detector. The detector has a plurality of inner and outer fall sensors arranged on an underside of the appliance housing, which detect a distance of the floor treatment appliance from the surface. The computer controls the drive to change a movement of the floor treatment appliance when the distance detected by the fall sensor is greater than a threshold value defining a slope. The fall sensors are interconnected in an evaluation circuit of the detection means so that the detection signals of the totality of inner fall sensors can be evaluated independently of the detection signals of the totality of outer fall sensors.