Disclosed is a method for controlling a mopping robot including a mopping member for mopping and cleaning a floor. The method includes: if the mopping robot has mopped a first area in a first state with the mopping member at a target degree of cleanliness, performing a mopping member cleaning operation; if the mopping robot has mopped a second area in a second state with the mopping member at the target degree of cleanliness, and if the mopping member satisfies the cleaning condition, performing the mopping member cleaning operation. An apparatus for controlling a mopping robot and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also provided.

A floor cleaning system may include a docking station to which an autonomous floor cleaning machine can dock between cleaning operations. The docking station can provide power to the autonomous floor cleaning machine to recharge the batteries of the machine when not in use. The docking station may also supply fresh cleaning fluid to the floor cleaning machine and remove collected waste from the machine. In practice, the floor cleaning machine may itself become dirty over repeated use, such as when cleaning greasy floor surfaces. Accordingly, the docking station may include flushing orifices to clean the floor cleaning machine itself, such as with a degreasing composition.

The present disclosure relates to a docking apparatus for a mobile robot including a sterilization unit, which emits germicidal light to a floor cloth to sterilize the floor cloth, and which includes: a germicidal lamp which vertically overlaps with the floor cloth of the mobile robot, and emits the germicidal light to a front end thereof; a diffusing part for diffusing the germicidal light to a rear end of the germicidal lamp; and a converging part for converging the germicidal light to a rear end of the diffusing part.

Disclosed is a base station comprising a base and a liquid path system disposed on the base. The liquid path system may comprise a first device and a second device. The first device may be configured to perform a first treatment on water to form a first liquid, and the second device is configured to perform a second treatment on water to form a second liquid. The second liquid may be different from the first liquid in temperature and/or composition. The first device can provide the first liquid with a first function for a cleaning robot, and the second device can provide a second liquid with a second function for the cleaning robot, so that the base station can provide a variety of liquids with different functions for the cleaning robot to meet different floors, different environments, and different user needs.

A base station includes a base station body, a first water tank, and a second waterway system. The base station body is provided with a cleaning system. The first water tank is removably installed in the base station body, and is configured to be manually added with clean water and/or removed with sewage. The first water tank is defined with a first cavity communicated with the cleaning system. The second waterway system includes a waterway channel arranged on the base station, and the waterway channel is configured for receiving and transporting clean water from the outside of the base station to the cleaning system and/or configured to receive sewage from the cleaning system and discharge the sewage to the outside. Both or either one of the first cavity and the second waterway system may supply clean water to the cleaning system and/or receive sewage from the cleaning system.

A cleaning base station for a cleaning robot is disclosed. The cleaning base station includes a base station body, a cleaning structure, a first liquid storage structure and a second liquid storage structure. The base station body defines a cleaning space where the cleaning robot is capable of being parked, and the base station body includes a liquid applicating port on an upper side of the cleaning space and a sewage suction outlet on a lower side of the cleaning space. The cleaning structure is installed on a lower side of the cleaning space and is configured to clean a cleaning member of the cleaning robot. The first liquid storage structure is in communication with the liquid applicating port, and the second liquid storage structure is in communication with the sewage suction outlet.

The present disclosure relates to the field of cleaning robot technology, and in particular to a cleaning robot system. The cleaning robot system includes a base station and a cleaning robot. The base station is independent to the cleaning robot of the cleaning robot system. The base station includes a base station body and a mop member cleaning device arranged on the base station body. The mop member cleaning device is configured to clean a mop member of the cleaning robot. Based on the base station, the cleaning robot system is capable of automatically cleaning the mop member with no need for users to change or clean the mop member frequently, which is helpful to free consumers from house cleaning, thus relieving the burden on the consumers, and also helpful to clean the mop member in time so as to ensure a better effect in next cleaning.

A docking station is provided for allowing decontaminating parts of a floor care device. The floor care device includes at least one part that is susceptible to contamination when the floor care device is used in a floor care mode. The method may include detecting a transition of the floor care device to a park mode, and in response thereto, executing a decontamination program, the decontamination program including emitting light in a violet portion of the visual spectrum and thereby illuminating the at least one part for the decontamination thereof.

Described herein are components, systems, and methods of use of an integrated sterilization system comprising a pass-through logistics cabinet, an ozone sterilization system, a floor sterilization robot, and systems for controlling such components. An integrated operating room sterilization system will allow mitigation or elimination of risks (e.g., infrastructural risks (e.g., OI risks), procedural risks (e.g., risk of infection and contamination) that are associated with a setting in a healthcare environment. The elimination of clutter, control of major components under a unified and intuitive user interface, and the logical elimination of potential accumulated risk events (e.g., OI risks) and procedural risks are deliberately addressed, in whole or in part, by the present disclosure. The present disclosure describes the following: a pass-through logistics cabinet, an ozone sterilization system, a floor sterilization robot, and systems for controlling such components.

An autonomous floor cleaner can include a brush chamber, a brushroll rotatably mounted in the brush chamber, a controller adapted to control the operation of the autonomous floor cleaner, and a fluid delivery system with a supply tank and at least one fluid distributor configured to deposit cleaning fluid onto a surface to be cleaned.