Dyson Technology Limited

Andrew Collingwood Watson

David Alan Millington

Nathan Lawson McLean

Massimo Camplani

Nolan Thomas Mccann

Michele Benetti

Thomas Richard De Lange

Tong Qiao

Ehsan Nadernejad

Stephanie Voisey

Lili Tao

Miltiadis Alexios Papadopoulos

Dominic Brady

Niloufar Zarinabad Nooralipour

Remigijus Norvilis

Emma Metcalfe-Smith

Elizabeth Hickey

A vacuum cleaner includes: a sensor configured to generate sensor signals based on sensed motion and orientation of the vacuum cleaner; a human-computer interface, HCI; and a controller configured to: process the generated sensor signals to determine a type of cleaning activity being performed by a user using the vacuum cleaner; and control the HCI to provide a recommendation to the user of the vacuum cleaner in dependence on the determined type of cleaning activity.

Vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner includes: a vacuum motor; a first sensor configured to generate first sensor signals based on sensed motion and orientation of the vacuum cleaner; a cleaner head comprising an agitator; one or more diagnostic sensors configured to generate second sensor signals based on sensed parameters of the cleaner head; and a controller configured to: process the generated first and second sensor signals to determine a type of surface on which the vacuum cleaner is being operated; and control the power of the vacuum motor in dependence on the determined type of surface.

A vacuum cleaner includes: a vacuum motor; one or more sensors configured to generate sensor signals associated with the vacuum cleaner; and a controller configured to: process the generated sensor signals using a surface type model defining a mapping between generated sensor signals and surface types to determine a type of surface on which the vacuum cleaner is being operated; control the power of the vacuum motor in dependence on the determined type of surface; and update the surface type model based on the generated sensor signals and/or the determined type of surface.

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