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Vehicle that moves automatically within an environment as well as a system with a vehicle and an external illuminating device

US10444765B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GMBH · DE

Inventors

David ERKEK · Aarau, CH
Georg Hackert · Bochum, DE
Gerhard Isenberg · Cologne, DE
Roman Ortmann · Gerstungen, DE
Andreas Schmidt · Braunschweig, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 7, 2018
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 7, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S901/09
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An unmanned vehicle that moves automatically within an environment, in particular a cleaning robot, with a detection system for detecting object data in an environment of the vehicle and a calculating device for generating an area map based on recorded object data. The area map has information about a position of an external illuminating device designed separately from the vehicle, as well as one or several items of information about the illuminating device, such as light intensity, emission spectrum, position and/or size of a partial area of an environment that can be illuminated by the illuminating device, and type of illuminating device.

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