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Granted Patent B2
US 11,161,235 · App. 16/459,237 · Granted Nov 2, 2021

Self-moving robot

Inventors: Mingming He (Suzhou, CN); Zhendong Gao (Suzhou, CN); Ka Tat Kelvin Wong (Suzhou, CN); Gen Sun (Suzhou, CN); Qiang Liu (Suzhou, CN); Yue Rao (Suzhou, CN)
Assignee: POSITEC TECHNOLOGY (CHINA) CO., LTD.
B25J5/00A01D34/008A01G25/09B25J9/08B25J19/005
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Patent No.
US 11,161,235
App. No.
16/459,237
Granted
Nov 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A self-moving robot includes a shell, a driving module, driving the self-moving robot to move on the ground; a mowing module, executing mowing work; an energy module, providing energy for the self-moving robot; a control module, controlling the self-moving robot to automatically move and execute work, the self-moving robot further includes a cleaning module executing ground cleaning work; the self-moving robot has a mowing mode and a cleaning mode, under the mowing mode, the control module controls the self-moving robot to execute mowing work, and under the cleaning mode, the control module controls the self-moving robot to execute cleaning work.

Claims (13)

1. A self-moving robot, comprising a shell, a driving module, driving the self-moving robot to move on the ground; a mowing module, executing mowing work; an energy module, providing energy for the self-moving robot; a control module, controlling the self-moving robot to automatically move and execute work, wherein,

the self-moving robot further comprises a cleaning module executing ground cleaning work; the self-moving robot has a mowing mode and a cleaning mode, under the mowing mode, the control module controls the self-moving robot to execute mowing work, and under the cleaning mode, the control module controls the self-moving robot to execute cleaning work, wherein

the self-moving robot further comprises a ground recognizing unit, which collects ground information of a target area and judges the target ground to be a grassland or road surface.

2. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the control module, according to a recognized result of the ground recognizing unit on the target area, controls the self-moving robot to be kept on the grassland under the mowing mode to execute mowing work and to be kept on the road surface under the cleaning mode to execute cleaning work.

3. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the control module, according to a recognized result of the ground recognizing unit on the target area, is switched to the cleaning mode from the mowing mode when the self-moving robot moves to the road surface from the grassland; and is switched to the mowing mode from the cleaning mode when the self-moving robot moves to the grassland from the road surface.

4. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the control module, according to a recognized result of the ground recognizing unit on the target area, controls the self-moving robot to be in the mowing mode when it is on the grassland, and controls the self-moving robot to be in the cleaning mode when it is on the road surface.

5. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the ground recognizing unit comprises a camera and a recognizing element connected to the camera; the camera captures a ground image of the target area and transmits to the recognizing unit, a ground type judging algorithm is preset in the recognizing element, and the recognizing element extracts image features and transmits to the ground type judging algorithm to judge the target area to be the grassland or road surface.

6. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the ground recognizing unit comprises a ground hardness sensor and a recognizing element connected to the ground hardness sensor; the ground hardness sensor collects the ground hardness information of the target area and transmits the recognizing element, a ground type judging algorithm is preset in the recognizing element, and the recognizing element inputs the ground hardness information to the ground type judging algorithm to judge the target area to be the grassland or road surface.

7. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the control module comprises a mode control unit, which controls the self-moving robot to be switched between the mowing mode and the cleaning mode according to a preset program.

8. The self-moving robot according to claim 7 , wherein the mode control unit allocates time when the self-moving robot is in the mowing mode and time when the self-moving robot is in the cleaning mode according to date or season information.

9. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the cleaning module is a leaf cleaning module configured to clean leaves.

10. The self-moving robot according to claim 9 , wherein the leaf cleaning module is a blowing module, an air sucking module or sweeping module.

11. The self-moving robot according to claim 1 , wherein the cleaning module is detachably mounted on the shell.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2021
From: HE, MINGMING; GAO, ZHENDONG; WONG, KA TAT KELVIN; SUN, GEN; LIU, QIANG; RAO, YUE
To: POSITEC TECHNOLOGY (CHINA) CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (2)
CN 201410663077.7 · Nov 19, 2014 · national
CN 201510459244.0 · Jul 30, 2015 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15528261 · May 19, 2017
Provisional Application PCTCN2015094050 · Nov 6, 2015
Related Publication 20190321964A1 · Oct 24, 2019
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