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Autonomous floor cleaning with a removable pad

  • US 9,907,449 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2015
  • Issued: 03/06/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An autonomous floor cleaning robot, comprising:

  • a robot body defining a forward drive direction;

    a controller supported by the robot body;

    a drive supporting the robot body and configured to maneuver the robot across a surface in response to commands from the controller;

    a pad holder disposed on an underside of the robot body and configured to retain a removable cleaning pad during operation of the robot; and

    a pad sensor arranged to sense a feature of the cleaning pad held by the pad holder and generate a corresponding signal;

    wherein the controller is responsive to the corresponding signal generated by the pad sensor, and configured to control the robot according to a cleaning mode selected from a set of multiple robot cleaning modes as a function of the corresponding signal generated by the pad sensor.

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