Self-propelled cleaner
First Claim
1. A self-propelled cleaner having a body with a vacuum cleaning mechanism driven by a suction motor and a drive mechanism with drive wheels at the left and right sides of the body whose rotation can be individually controlled for steering and driving the cleaner, the cleaning mechanism having:
- side brushes protruding outward from both sides of the body;
side brush motors for driving the side brushes; and
an adapter which is mounted in a suction channel and an exhaust channel for the suction motor to vary the suction sound, the cleaner further comprising;
an emotion type selection processor which has a human sensor to detect a human body and selects the type of emotion to be expressed;
a suction sound control processor which controls the rotation of the suction motor to vary the suction sound depending on the selected type of emotion; and
a motion control processor which controls the drive mechanism to selectively make the body approach a human body, move away from a human body or move around a human body depending on the selected type of emotion.
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Abstract
There are robots that make an emotional expression with light and sound but they are very typical and lack something that attract the user. According to the present invention, in a self-propelled cleaner, after selection of the type of emotion at step S404, an operation step sequence appropriate to the selected type of emotion is chosen at steps S406 to S410 where steps S412 to S416 are carried out for joy, S418 to S422 for anger, S424 to S428 for sadness, and S430 to S434 for delight. At steps S414, S420, S428 and S432, the pattern of power supply to the suction motor is determined to vary the suction sound pattern according to the selected type of emotion to express an emotion.
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17 Claims
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1. A self-propelled cleaner having a body with a vacuum cleaning mechanism driven by a suction motor and a drive mechanism with drive wheels at the left and right sides of the body whose rotation can be individually controlled for steering and driving the cleaner,
the cleaning mechanism having: -
side brushes protruding outward from both sides of the body;
side brush motors for driving the side brushes; and
an adapter which is mounted in a suction channel and an exhaust channel for the suction motor to vary the suction sound, the cleaner further comprising;
an emotion type selection processor which has a human sensor to detect a human body and selects the type of emotion to be expressed;
a suction sound control processor which controls the rotation of the suction motor to vary the suction sound depending on the selected type of emotion; and
a motion control processor which controls the drive mechanism to selectively make the body approach a human body, move away from a human body or move around a human body depending on the selected type of emotion.
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2. A self-propelled cleaner having a body with a vacuum cleaning mechanism driven by a suction motor, and a drive mechanism capable of steering and driving the cleaner, comprising:
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an emotion type selection processor which has a human sensor to detect a human body and, upon detection of a human body, selects the type of emotion to be expressed;
a suction sound control processor which controls the rotation of the suction motor to vary the suction sound depending on the selected type of emotion; and
a motion control processor which controls the drive mechanism to control motion of the body depending on the selected type of emotion. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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