Irobot Corporation

Clifton Eric Smith

Mario E Munich

Philip Fong

Stephen O'Dea

Steven J Baron

Michael Foster

Matthew Weyant

Laura Tramontozzi

Jonathan Sanjeev Withers

Collin Prather

Ajay Changulani

A method of prioritizing cleaning of rooms of an environment for a mobile cleaning robot can include generating a cleanliness score for each room of the environment using a controller. Each of the cleanliness scores can be indicative of an amount of debris expected in each respective room by the mobile cleaning robot. The method can also include generating a room cleaning priority based at least partially on the cleanliness score of each of the rooms. The method can also include scheduling operations of the mobile cleaning robot for a planned mission based on the room cleaning priority of each of the rooms of the environment.

Cleaning prioritization for mobile cleaning robot

A multi-robot system includes a first a mobile cleaning robot that has a local storage device to store a persistent map of an environment, at least one sensor to sense the environment, and a control module. The control module is configured to: control the mobile cleaning robot to navigate in the environment using the persistent map and sensing data provided by the at least one sensor, share the persistent map with a second mobile cleaning robot, and coordinate with the second mobile cleaning robot to perform cleaning tasks.

Mobile cleaning robot teaming and persistent mapping

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