Irobot Corporation

James R Salvati

John JianShi Wang

Artem Gritsenko

Erik Schembor

Zacharias Psarakis

Jonathan J Dorich

Steven Kordell

Tadvana S Canakapalli

An autonomous cleaning robot includes a controller configured to execute instructions to perform one or more operations. The one or more operations includes operating a drive system to move the cleaning robot in a forward drive direction along a first obstacle surface with a side surface of the cleaning robot facing the first obstacle surface, then operating the drive system to turn the cleaning robot such that the side surface of the cleaning robot faces a second obstacle surface, then operating the drive system to move the cleaning robot in a rearward drive direction along the second obstacle surface, and then operating the drive system to move the cleaning robot in the forward drive direction along the second obstacle surface.

Navigation of autonomous mobile robots

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North Chelmsford, MA, United States of America

James R Salvati