查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx jour nalists report that a patent by the inventors Case, James Philip (Los Angeles, C A, US), Dooley, Michael J. (Los Gatos, CA, US), Goel, Dhiraj (Bedford, MA, US), Gutmann, Steffen (Bedford, MA, US), Johnson, Collin Eugene (Bedford, MA, US), Ro manov, Nikolai (Oak Park, CA, US), filed on September 3, 2020, was published onl ine on September 17, 2024. The patent's assignee for patent number 12090650 is iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: "At their core, robotic floor cleaners integrate at least t wo primary functional systems: (1) a cleaning mechanism, which cleans the floor in the area where it is placed or moved across, and (2) a mobile robotic platfor m, which autonomously moves the cleaning mechanism across the floor to different places. Both of these functional systems must work adequately for the robot to be effective at cleaning. "While both functional systems set requirements and constraints on the design of the overall robot, the challenge of developing a mobile robotic platform that c an autonomously move around in nearly an infinite variety of highly unstructured environments (e.g., people's homes) tends to be the dominant consideration and has had a significant effect on the design of home cleaning robots to this date.